Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the world’s first trillionaire as SpaceX completed what is being described as the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history. The company raised $75 billion by selling shares at $135 each, giving SpaceX a market value of about $1.77 trillion. According to Reuters calculations based on company…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar took a swipe at the United State’s shifting stance and Western nations’ double standards, saying Washington imposes and lifts sanctions or tariffs based on its own interests and not on any fixed principle.Speaking at the Kultaranta Talks in Finland on Thursday, Jaishankar strongly defended India’s decision to buy…
File Pic: Jaspal Rana with Manu Bhaker after historic double bronze-medal feat at the Paris Olympics. (PTI Photo) Indian shooting lost one of its finest pistol shooters on Friday. Jaspal Rana, an Asian Games gold medallist and winner of multiple international events who later transformed Indian shooting as a coach, breathed his last at a…
The first Pakistani Hangor-class submarine has reached its home port in Karachi. The submarine, named PNS Hangor, is the first of eight submarines of this class to be inducted into the Pakistani Navy by 2028, with four of these submarines to be built in Karachi. The Hangor-class submarine is a derivative of the Chinese Type-39A…
As he prepares to turn 43, entrepreneur Rohit Sakunia, who quit Google more than a decade ago to begin his entrepreneurial journey, has looked back at his 30s and shared a few lessons he wishes he had understood sooner.Sakunia posted a personal reflection on Instagram said it was not meant to be advice but “thodi…
KOLKATA: TMC MP Kirti Azad on Friday accused rebel party leaders of corruption, alleging that Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar was “caught on camera accepting Rs 5 lakh” and questioning her credibility in criticising TMC chief Mamata Banerjee.Azad further claimed that the rebel leader was previously seen accepting bribes and said he has information about others involved…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has asked defence minister Rajnath Singh to rethink the government’s decision against expanding the INS Baaz runway, arguing it would be less ecologically destructive than building a new airport in Great Nicobar.In a letter to Singh on Friday, Ramesh said he first proposed the INS Baaz expansion alternative on…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu and Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra led an outpouring of grief from across the country on Friday following the death of legendary shooter and coach Jaspal Rana, with tributes pouring in for a man widely regarded as one of the architects of Indian shooting’s rise on the global stage.Rana, a former…
Jigar Naik with his mother Apoorva Naik. (Image Courtesy: Dainik Bhaskar) Every time Apoorva Naik sat down at her sewing machine, she wasn’t just stitching clothes. She was stitching together hope. That machine became her family’s lifeline, paying school fees, covering daily expenses, and keeping alive a dream that once seemed out of reach. Today,…
If someone had said a few weeks ago that a conversation about a plate of biryani would end up involving the Cyber Cell, the National Commission for Women, job losses and a nationwide debate, most people would have laughed it off.But that’s exactly what has happened.Comedian Pranit More has found himself in the middle of…