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Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara reacts during her Round of 64 women’s singles match against Turkey’s Ozge Bayrak (REUTERS) NEW DELHI: It was Day 5 of the BWF World Championships in New Delhi, but the smooth rhythm of the tournament was suddenly disrupted. Injuries to Thailand’s Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara, both suffering from knee problems, put the organisers on alert and threw a carefully choreographed schedule into disarray.Dechapol, playing in the mixed doubles competition alongside Supissara Paewsampran, was forced to give eventual gold medallists Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue a walkover. A recurring right knee injury, meanwhile, saw Okuhara hand…

New Delhi: Congress has accused the Narendra Modi government of embarking on an “aggressive privatisation” of India’s space programme that will “limit” the Indian Space Research Organisation’s presence in rocket development and manufacture, and asked why ISRO be “strangulated and emasculated”.Congress spokesman Jairam Ramesh alleged the privatisation agenda would mean transferring much of ISRO’s satellite-related assets lock, stock and barrel to private companies.”ISRO has done India enormously proud and the prime minister himself has basked in the glory of its achievements on multiple occasions. Space startups certainly deserve encouragement and support. But why should ISRO, which has for long had…

New Delhi: Medical device industry, patient safety groups and healthcare providers have opposed the draft Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2026, saying it treats medical devices like medicines and will hurt manufacturing and innovation, people in the know told ET.Several associations representing manufacturers, traders, healthcare providers and patient groups have written to the Union health minister urging a rethink of the draft, warning that it will hurt investment, discourage manufacturing and set back India’s ambition of becoming a global medical device hub.In its pushback against the draft bill, the medical device industry has cited that medical devices are engineering…

Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV) in Raipur has cancelled the BSc Agriculture first-year Plant Pathology examination.Raipur: The government-run Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (IGKV) in Raipur has cancelled the BSc Agriculture first-year Plant Pathology examination held on August 7 after a police investigation into a separate case confirmed its question paper had been leaked, officials said.The decision was taken at an emergency meeting chaired by IGKV Vice Chancellor Dr Girish Chandel following the August 20 leak of the Entomology question paper, a BSc Agriculture second-year subject, which led to the arrest of a professor and five students of a private college…

Kashmera Shah stands by Sunita Ahuja amid her divorce row with Govinda and his reported dating controversy with Komal Rani Swarnkar. The ongoing turmoil surrounding Govinda and Sunita Ahuja’s marriage has once again put their family in the spotlight. Amid reports of a possible divorce, Sunita’s public remarks about her relationship with Govinda and rumours linking the actor to actress Komal Rani Swarnkar, Kashmera Shah was asked to react to the situation.Kashmera, who is married to Govinda’s nephew Krushna Abhishek, refused to discuss every detail of the family matter but made one thing clear that she stands with the women…

 India engaged with the U.S. on trade deal | Photo Credit: The Hindu India has had “reassuring” recent discussions with the U.S. including on a proposed law that would see tariffs of 100% being imposed on India and other countries that import Russian oil in large quantities, a senior official in the government said on the condition of anonymity.The U.S. Senate earlier this week passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, which proposes tariffs of up to 100% on countries that import oil from Russia in large quantities. Under the criteria laid out in the…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announces a new set of sanctions against Iran, describing them as “an economic D-Day”, in the Cash Room at the Treasury Department on August 24, 2026, in Washington, DC. Photo: Getty Images via AFP. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday (August 24, 2026) laid out plans for the “economic asphyxiation” of Iran, expanding Washington’s secondary sanctions threats and warning of dire consequences for countries that decline to join the pressure campaign.Mr. Bessent’s address comes almost six months into a war on Tehran that has ground to a stalemate, with stalled peace talks and Iran preventing…

The Falcon 9 rocket whose upper stage is going to crash on the moon (right) and the location of Einstein crater on the moon. | Photo Credit: NASA and Magere Hein (CC BY-SA) Astronomers are closely monitoring a SpaceX rocket stage that is on the way to striking the moon. This Falcon 9 rocket had launched two satellites towards the moon in January 2025. Then SpaceX abandoned the rocket’s spent upper stage in an unstable orbit as it lacked enough fuel to return to the earth or head into deep space. It is now expected to hit the moon on…

Census 2027 drops separate ‘beggars and vagrants’ category, adds natural calamities as migration reason NEW DELHI: In a departure from previous exercises, Census 2027 will not record data on begging separately, with the questionnaire having omitted the category ‘beggars and vagrants etc’ from the list of ‘non-economic activity’. This, as per sources, is due to the very less return in this category in the last census; just around 3.8 lakh non-workers and marginal workers declared themselves as ‘beggars and vagrants’ in Census 2011.Another key change in is the inclusion of ‘natural calamities’ as a ‘reason for migration’, in addition to…

Emma Riley has been caring for her mother Carol, who has dementia, since she lost her father 18 months ago.”She’s a cracking lady, still with a sense of humour but she’s living with this awful condition,” said Riley, from Manchester.She is paying £34 an hour for a care company to come to the house three times a week, which she describes as a “huge chunk of money” although she is happy with the level of care.Riley wants to keep her mum in the family home, but the caring commitments affect her job as a dental nurse.She started applying to the…