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The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has reacted to the claims of China’s Ding Liren losing to India’s D Gukesh on purpose during the recently-concluded 2024 World Chess Championship match in Singapore. In the aftermath of Gukesh’s history success, Ding was accused of deliberately losing the match by Russian Chess Federation chief Andrei Filatov. Russian news…

Ayushmann Khurrana is an avid foodie. The actor, on Sunday, decided to enjoy a traditional Punjabi sweet dish, Panjeeri. It looks like the actor had homemade panjeeri made using a recipe by renowned chef Ranveer Brar. Ayushmann took to his Instagram Stories to share the delightful result of his culinary adventure. Posting a picture of…

CCTV footage of the chaos that unfolded at an exam centre of the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) on Friday shows a large group of people tearing question papers in the storage area and snatching them from candidates who were taking the test. One of the CCTV clips shows some candidates rushing into a room…

West Indies’ big-hitting all-rounder Deandra Dottin, Mumbai batter Simran Shaikh and exciting India U19 wicketkeeper-batter G Kamalini have fetched big paychecks in the WPL 2025 player auction on Sunday. For acquiring Deandra, one of only three players with a reserve price of Rs 50 lakh, Gujarat Giants and UP Warriorz were in a fierce tussle…

The much-awaited cabinet expansion of the new Maharashtra government led by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis happened today. A total of 39 ministers took oath at a grand event in Nagpur. Among the newly inducted ministers, 19 are from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), nine from Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and 11 from Eknath Shinde-led…

Ahead of the assembly election scheduled early next year, Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP have got themselves tangled in a new brawl, this time over the issue of illegal Rohingya living in the national capital. Chief Minister Atishi in a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleged the Centre allowed…

Two iconic Indian breads have secured top spots in the prestigious Taste Atlas 2024-25 list of the ‘100 Best Foods by Category‘. Out of 15,478 catalogued foods, based on 477,287 valid ratings, Amritsari Kulcha and Butter Garlic Naan earned the highest average scores in the ‘Bread’ category. Indian breads are central to the country’s culinary…

At least 350 elephants died under mysterious circumstances in Botswana in 2020, sparking global concerns while leaving scientists puzzled about the reason for the mortalities. Four years later, a study conducted at King’s College London may have finally unearthed the answer. As per the research, a “toxic brew” of open water tainted by a species…

Former England women’s cricket team star Isa Guha found herself in the middle of a massive controversy after making a racially insensitive remark about Jasprit Bumrah on commentary during Day 2 of the third Test encounter against Australia on Sunday. Following the dismissals of Nathan McSweeney and Usman Khawaja, legendary Australia pacer Brett Lee was…

The result of the 2014 general election, which saw the BJP storm into power, would have been different and the Congress would not have suffered a humiliating defeat if Pranab Mukherjee was made Prime Minister and Dr Manmohan Singh the President during the UPA-II government, veteran Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has said. The former…