UFC Featherweight fighter Bryce Mitchell has caused a social media uproar after he praised Adolf Hitler by calling the Nazi leader a “good guy”. 30-year-old Mitchell, who is ranked 13th in the featherweight division was on the ArkanSanity Podcast where he made the controversial remarks, stating that Hitler only wanted to “purify” his country. “I … Read more
Former all-rounder Irfan Pathan sees the return of stalwarts Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to domestic cricket as a “fantastic” moment for Indian cricket. After failing to live up to the expectations in international colours, the top Indian stars returned to domestic format in a bid to find their lost form. Yashasvi Jaiswal, … Read more
Tokyo: Japan said it would not fund a UN women’s rights committee and suspended a member’s visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules. Chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Thursday that a visit by a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women would be … Read more
Washington: Robert F. Kennedy Jr faces a pivotal Senate hearing Wednesday where he will be grilled on his history of promoting vaccine misinformation and plans to upend US science agencies as he bids to become President Donald Trump’s health secretary. His cousin, Caroline Kennedy, has called him a “predator”, urging senators to reject him. If … Read more
New Delhi: Describing the ICC as an “event management company”, former Australia captain Ian Chappell has observed that the financially stronger boards are getting their way in producing self-serving schedule while harming the interest of Test cricket. Chappell also felt that a viable two-tier system for Test cricket should have been in place by … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan called off reconciliatory talks with the government on Thursday, a week after a court handed him a 14-year jail term on graft charges, his party’s chairman said. Aimed at cooling political instability in the South Asian nation, the talks had started late last year ahead of the judgment … Read more
Washington, United States: The gesture was controversial enough, but now come the sub-controversies: Elon Musk is trolling Wikipedia and encouraging its defunding after a description of his recent flourish, seen by some as a Hitler salute, appeared on the encyclopedic website. The fight pits two of the internet’s best-known tech giants against each other — … Read more
Washington: The U.S. presidential election is approaching, and the war of words between candidates is intensifying. US President Joe Biden has compared supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to “trash”. Not only that, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris also described her Republican rival Trump as “unstable” and “obsessed with revenge.” Harris even said, “This is … Read more
C-295 aircraft manufacturing base inaugurated in Vadodara Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a post on social media about India’s pace of self-reliance in the defense sector. This was the take-off period of India’s defense revolution, he wrote. Prime Minister Modi wrote in a blog post that India’s defense and aerospace industry ushered in important opportunities … Read more
That day is October 13, 2024. It has been 24 hours since Baba Siddiqui was murdered in Mumbai. Sitting in Purnia, more than a thousand kilometers away from Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad and Bandra in Mumbai, seven-time independent MP and one-time muscleman Pappu Yadav suddenly took to social media Made a post. Pappu Yadav publicly … Read more