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Akola: Two back-to-back extortion threats, allegedly linked to Bishnoi gang, demanding Rs10 crore from Congress’s Akola MLA and Rs2 crore from a BJP leader in Akot have put the law enforcement agencies on alert. Akola West Congress MLA Sajid Khan Pathan allegedly received extortion call demanding ₹10 crore from Bishnoi gang associate Shubham Lonkar, police said. Following the threat, the MLA’s security has been enhanced. The development comes close on the heels of a separate case in which Akot BJP city president Harish Tawari was allegedly threatened through Signal messaging app.According to police, Tawari first received a message on Feb…

The US Supreme Court on Friday struck down many tariffs imposed by Donald Trump, ruling that a key emergency law he relied on does not give presidents the authority to impose such duties. The 6–3 decision was a major defeat for Trump and a relatively rare instance of the court checking his efforts in a second term that has relied heavily on tariffs as economic and foreign policy leverage against both allies and adversaries.The majority coalition brought together Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justices Clarence Thomas,…

Pakistan will lock horns with New Zealand in their first Super 8 clash of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Saturday. With a storied rivalry and plenty at stake, the contest promises to be a high-intensity encounter between two evenly matched sides.Pakistan vs New Zealand Super 8s: Head-to-head record between PAK and NZ in T20IsThis will be the 50th T20I meeting between Pakistan and New Zealand, underlining how closely contested this rivalry has been in the shortest format. Of the 49 matches played so far, Pakistan have won 24, New Zealand…

Conan O’Brien finally opened up about the night everything changed, the night Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner left his holiday party and never made it home. Until now, he’d stayed quiet, but in a new interview, he broke the silence on what happened around two months back that shook Hollywood, as well as the world.Rob Reiner’s tragic demise: What happened?Rob Reiner (78) and Michele Reiner (70) were found dead in their Brentwood home on December 14, 2025, just hours after they’d laughed and mingled with friends at Conan’s Christmas party. And the details are as grim as they come.…

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher, are seen at Launch Pad 39B on January 17, 2026, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. | Photo Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky A week ago, NASA found a hydrogen leak during a wet dress rehearsal of its Artemis II mission. A dress rehearsal in rocketry is a full run-through of activities that will happen on the day of launch, to validate people, hardware, software, and timelines as an integrated system.A dry dress rehearsal practices the countdown and important operations without loading cryogenic propellants into the rocket.…

Action Will Be Taken Against Him, Says BJP Bhiwandi: In a setback to the BJP, its rebel corporator Narayan Chaudhary who broke away from the party along with five other corporators and aligned with the Congress-led ‘Bhiwandi Secular Front’ was on Friday elected mayor of the Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation (BNMC). Contesting as mayoral candidate of the front, which included Congress with its 30 corporators and NCP (SP) with 12, Chaudhary got 48 votes in a House of 90 effectively reduced on Friday to 89 with one corporator abstaining. The BJP’s nominee Sneha Mehul Patil got 16 votes, while Vilas Patil…

NEW DELHI: Congress on Friday hailed US Supreme Court’s ruling on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on different countries and said that the verdict shows that “American system of checks and balances still seems to be working.”Hours after the US Supreme Court delivered a 6-3 verdict invalidating tariffs imposed by Trump, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said, “Hats off to the US Supreme Court for striking down President Trump’s entire tariff strategy! Quite an amazing decision given its ideological composition. A 6-3 verdict is decisive.””The American system of checks and balances still seems to be working,” he added.Veteran Congress leader…

After returning figures of 4/27 to earn the Player of the Match award, Adam Zampa conceded that Australia’s emphatic nine-wicket win over Oman did little to soften the blow of their early exit from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026.“To be honest, it has been a rough few days for us,” Zampa said after the match. “The voice in our changeroom has been pretty quiet as we are very disappointed that our World Cup is ending so soon,” he said.New Zealand hold intense nets before Super Eight match vs Pakistan | T20 World CupCaptain Mitchell Marsh capped the group…

Malayalam rapper Vedan is set to marry writer Navami Latha on February 24th in Thrissur. The couple, together for years, initially planned a private registered ceremony. However, a public announcement by politician M.V. Govindan at a Kannur event shifted their plans. Vedan, known for his socially conscious lyrics, recently won a State Film Award for his work in ‘Manjummal Boys’. Malayalam rapper Vedan is set to marry his longtime partner and the wedding is scheduled for February 24 in Thrissur. It will be a simple registered ceremony and the bride, Navami Latha, is a writer from Thrissur. The couple has…

The quantum computerIt’s time to introduce the star of this article! The quantum computer is quite different from the regular computer you would use at home, the office, or in a school computer lab. It is a device that utilises quantum mechanics (a field of physics where the behaviour of matter and energy is described and studied at the atomic and sub-atomic levels) to solve complex problems and perform computations faster than a traditional computer. Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman was credited as one of the first scientists to introduce the idea of combining computers with quantum mechanics to ensure efficient…