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Hosts Italy have been embarrassed days before the start of the Winter Olympics – with their biathlete Rebecca Passler kicked out of the Games because of a failed dope test. Passler was provisionally suspended by Italy’s anti-doping agency (Nado) after she tested positive for banned substances letrozole and methanol. Letrozole is a drug used to…

5 min readFeb 2, 2026 05:01 PM IST First published on: Feb 2, 2026 at 05:01 PM IST Pakistan’s decision to boycott its match against India in the T20 World Cup is political gesturing at its most incoherent. While the move claims solidarity with Bangladesh, it exposes the hollowness of performative activism in cricket —…

Logo of Pakistan Cricket Board. Twitter/@TheRealPCB The Pakistan Cricket Board was on Monday (February 2, 2026) tight-lipped about its government’s decision to boycott the T20 World Cup game against India but a well-placed source conceded that it has no choice but to follow instructions coming from the top. Amid the drama, the national team left…

Sunetra Pawar took oath as the State’s first woman deputy CM on January 31. File photo: X/@CMOMaharashtra via ANI The Opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) on Monday (February 2, 2026) claimed the BJP leadership was the “mastermind” behind NCP leader Sunetra Pawar taking oath as Maharashtra’s deputy Chief Minister, just days after her husband Ajit Pawar’s…

Sanjay Raut (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Monday raised serious doubts over the sudden and “suspicious” death of NCP chief and Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, saying “something is dubious” and calling for a thorough investigation into the plane crash that killed the leader last week in Baramati.Drawing…

At a time when Artificial Intelligence (AI) is posing a serious threat to creativity, printmaking is thumbing its nose at it. The artistic process that can trace its roots to 3000 BCE — when cylinder seals were used in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley — has an inbuilt sense of mobility that is hard to silence….

To make it easier for users to book train tickets and avail of other train-related services via the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) platform, Indian Railways offers an AI chatbot called AskDisha 2.0. The chatbot offers users a range of services like booking tickets and getting refunds and it even provides necessary information….

An image taken from WSB video shows Gwinnett County Police Chief J.D. McClure speaks at a news conference Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Gwinnett County, Ga., following the shootings of two officers at a hotel. | Photo Credit: AP A police officer was killed and another was critically wounded on Sunday (February 1, 2026) in…

The Union government has made a significant push in the education and skilling sector in the Union Budget presented on Sunday (February 1, 2026), with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announcing the establishment of five university townships near major industrial and logistics corridors; provisions to set up a girls’ hostel in each district to encourage the…

Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin/ Reuters BANGKOK: Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will miss a regional meeting of Asia’s leaders in Jakarta next week, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.Srettha won a parliamentary vote to become prime minister last month and his cabinet was endorsed by the king on Saturday. The prime minister…