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Harikrishnan A Ra | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement For seven years, Harikrishnan A Ra remained an International Master. In the meantime, he competed in many tournaments in his quest to become a Grandmaster but fell short after coming agonisingly close to becoming one.The 23-year-old finally earned his third and final GM-norm in the La Plagne International Chess Festival in France on Friday (July 11, 2025). Harikrishnan drew with his countrymate P. Iniyan in the final round to finish fourth and become India’s 87th GM.Speaking from La Plagne (France), Harikrishnan expressed a sigh of relief. “Feel very happy. It’s been seven…

A Pakistani worker handles molten steel at a steel mill in an industrial area of Lahore. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Pakistan and Russia have signed an agreement to restore and modernise the Pakistan Steel Mills project, marking a new chapter in cooperation between the two countries, according to media reports. China was also in the race for getting the contract for the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) project that was originally built with Soviet assistance. The agreement to revive the PSM in Karachi was signed at the Pakistan Embassy in Moscow on Friday (July 10, 2025), state-run Associated Press of…

Rambo the cat thrashes in a cat trap near his home in Ingram, Texas on Thursday, July 10. Rambo had been missing for almost a week after the catastrophic flooding in central Texas. Kat Lonsdorf/NPR hide caption toggle caption Kat Lonsdorf/NPR INGRAM, TEXAS – Sherry Sweeney holds out a handful of cat food and calls after a small tabby prowling between giant, uprooted trees. “Here, kitty, kitty, kitty,” she coaxes, stepping lightly and slowly. The cat spooks, darting under a pile of debris that was once a house. Sweeney stands in what remains of a trailer park next to the…

President Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Texas Governor Greg Abbott meet with local emergency services personnel as they survey flood damage along the Guadalupe River on July 11, in Kerrville, Texas. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Trump visited a storm-torn Texas on Friday as the fate of the nation’s top federal disaster agency remains uncertain. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other local leaders praised the president for a swift response and for signing an expanded emergency declaration for the affected area after flooding killed more than 100 people, with many still missing. Trump…

Jannik Sinner’s merciless demolition of a physically compromised Novak Djokovic in their Wimbledon semifinal late on Friday may well have sounded the death knell for men’s tennis’s golden generation.In truth, though, the golden generation was gone quite some time ago. For more than a decade, from the mid-2000s to the late-2010s, Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer took this sport to new heights. Not individually but collectively, by nearly always meeting each other in the latter stages of Grand Slams and making the sport must-see viewing. As they slowly faded, what tennis missed was not the number of Majors they…

Arun Mammen, Chairman Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association. Photo: Special Arrangement India’s Natural rubber (NR) consumption is projected to reach 20 lakh tonnes by 2030 and there is a need to accelerate domestic production, Arun Mammen, Chairman Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA), said.“In FY25, domestic NR production stood at 8.7 lakh tonnes, while consumption was 14.1 lakh tonnes, resulting in a deficit of over 5 lakh tonnes,” he said in an interview. “This underscores the need for sustained long-term investments in plantation development, tapping, and productivity enhancement,” Mr. Mammen said. Accelerating domestic natural rubber (NR) production is a national priority, given the strategic…

New Delhi, India – Just moments before a fatal Air India crash on June 12, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner’s fuel-control switches in the cockpit mysteriously moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position, an early investigation into the disaster has revealed. Flipping to cutoff almost immediately cuts the engines. The investigation’s report, issued by India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) early on Saturday, found that both engines shut down within the space of one second, leading to immediate loss of altitude. The report does not conclude any reason for the switches moving or apportion blame for the crash of Air…

Added to the World Heritage list are two prisons: Tuol Sleng and M-13, as well as the execution site Choeung Ek.Three notorious locations used by Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime as torture and execution sites to perpetrate the genocide of Year Zero five decades ago have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. Two prisons and an execution site were inscribed on the list by the United Nations cultural agency on Friday during the 47th Session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris. It coincided with the 50th anniversary of the rise to power by the communist Khmer Rouge, which…

Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu A person serving a jail term after he was convicted for ganja peddling allegedly swallowed a mobile phone, inviting one more case against him. Doulath alias Gundu (30) approached the jail staff on June 24 this year, stating that he had been suffering from stomach pain after he swallowed a piece of stone. The staff took him to the McGann hospital. Upon proper examination, the doctors noticed a foreign body in his stomach and recommended a surgery.He underwent surgery and the doctors found a mobile phone measuring one inch in width…

Deals and pricing updated as of 5:03 p.m. on July 11, 2025.Amazon Prime Day ends tonight, meaning now is your last chance to save big with top deals on travel accessories. The annual mega-sale offers Prime members a chance to save on thousands of deals across all major categories. There’s still time for shoppers to take advantage of sales on essential travel accessories, from noise-canceling headphones and wearable tech to portable steamers, neck pillows, and toiletry bags. These are the travel accessories that help make the journey on any long-haul flight, cross-country road trip, or transatlantic cruise that much smoother—and…