3 min readMar 6, 2026 04:59 PM IST 4-0-64-1 is what figures looked like at the end of the spell for Varun Chakarvarthy on Thursday after the India vs England semifinal. It is not too often the mystery spinner has had to deal with days like that in his T20 career, but the Super 8...

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met with Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Khatibzadeh, a day after talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Araqchi. India urged de-escalation and restraint on all sides for the sake of peace amid the ongoing West Asia conflict. Meanwhile, the United States has offered India a 30-day waiver on Russian oil purchases,...

UPSC releases Civil Services Examination 2025 results, 958 candidates recommended across IAS, IPS, IFS posts The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the final results of the Civil Services Examination (CSE) 2025 following the written examination conducted in August, 2025 and the Personality Test interviews held between December, 2025 and February, 2026.According to the...

In the last three days, SpiceJet said it has operated 25 special flights from the UAE to Delhi, Mumbai and Kochi. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters SpiceJet will operate 14 special flights from the UAE on Friday (March 6, 2026) to bring passengers who have been stranded due to the conflict in West Asia. Also...

With the effective halt in maritime cargo movement through the Strait of Hormuz hitting crude oil flows to India, the US has issued a temporary 30-day “waiver” to allow Indian refiners to buy Russian crude that is already sitting in tankers on water. India had, in recent months, cut down significantly on its oil imports...

Once bitten, twice shy — it appears to be the lesson the US has drawn from its China experience, and it is wary of repeating it with a rising economy like India. Trump’s aide and US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau made no bones about the fact that Washington would not grant India the...

West Indies celebrates (Getty Images) MUMBAI: Forced to stay back in India following the end of their campaign in the T20 World Cup, the West Indies team might finally be able to fly home on a chartered flight on Friday with assistance from the International Cricket Council, TOI has learnt.Go Beyond The Boundary with our...

The Maharashtra cabinet has cleared a draft anti-conversion bill, which makes it mandatory to seek permission from a competent authority before converting to another religion. A person who wants to convert must give a 60-day notice and seek permission from the designated authority before converting, an official said on Thursday, sharing details of the proposed...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla. speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Jan. 14, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo) US President Donald Trump has nominated Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin as the next head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, replacing the agency’s chief Kristi Noem, the BBC reported. Mullin, a...

An Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighter jet crashed in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district during a routine training mission, the force said. The aircraft had lost radar contact shortly after taking off from Jorhat on Thursday evening. The aircraft went down in a hilly area of Karbi Anglong, around 60 km from Jorhat airbase....