Two tankers laden with Saudi oil crossed the Bab el-Mandeb strait over the weekend, while traffic in the Strait of Hormuz slowed following reports of vessel attacks, shipping data showed on Monday (August 3). The number of commodity vessels that passed through the Bab el-Mandeb strait fell to 18 on Sunday, from 27 on Saturday…
U.S. President Donald Trump attends a bilateral meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Evian-les-Bains, France on June 16, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump maintained on Tuesday (June 16, 2026) that an interim accord with Iran makes clear…
Image credit: BCCI/IPL/RCB NEW DELHI: The mere presence of Virat Kohli in the dressing room is enough to lift standards. His intensity, work ethic and never-say-die attitude to win have long made him the heartbeat of Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and IPL 2026 was no different. Kohli played a pivotal role in RCB’s second consecutive IPL…
NEW DELHI: India captain Shubman Gill added another record to his name on Wednesday, becoming the third-fastest Indian batter to reach 150 in a One-Day International (ODI) innings.Gill brought up the milestone in the 42nd over of India’s innings against Afghanistan in the second ODI in Lucknow. Facing Allah Ghazanfar, he worked a delivery towards…
D.B.S. Jeyaraj | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Noted Sri Lankan journalist and columnist D.B.S. Jeyaraj, who wrote extensively for over four decades on the island’s ethnic conflict and key political developments, including as The Hindu’s Sri Lanka Correspondent, passed away in Canada on Sunday. He was 71. From the 1980s, Mr. Jeyaraj’s byline was familiar…
A gleaming copper kalasam crowns the temple vimaanam, highlighting traditional South Indian Hindu architecture against a clear sky. Villupuram: Two copper kalasams, each about 1ft tall, were stolen by unidentified culprits from the century-old Arulmigu Sri Vadivambigai Samedha Chandramouleeswarar temple at Thiruvakkarai in Villupuram district.Police said miscreants targeted the vimana gopurams (tower domes) of the…
A Russian drone strike on Friday (June 26, 2026) killed two passengers aboard a minibus in Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region and one person in the border Sumy region, regional officials said. Also read | Ukraine hits Russian chemical plant again, reports say, in heavy overnight drone attack Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha, writing on the…