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Duplantis, Biles win top honours at Laureus Wolrd Sports Award

Star pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis was named the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year, while American gymnast Simone Biles bagged the top women’s honour at the Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony here on Monday (April 21, 2025). The 25-year-old Duplantis, regarded as the greatest pole vaulter of all time, was fourth-time lucky after being nominated […]

National ID cards of Hasina, 9 family members ‘locked’

DHAKA: National identity (NID) registration wing of Election Commission has officially “locked” the NID cards of former PM Sheikh Hasina and nine of her family members.The action was taken through a formal letter dated April 16, signed by ASM Humayun Kabir, director general of the wing.Besides Hasina, the administration has locked the NID cards of […]

Steve Hilton, Former Fox News Host, Is Running for California Governor

Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host who has also worked in conservative politics in Britain, announced on Monday that he was running to become California’s next governor. Mr. Hilton is the second prominent Republican to enter the 2026 race, but he faces difficult odds considering that California voters have not elected a Republican to […]

Supreme Court Wrestles With Challenge to Affordable Care Act Over Free Preventive Care

The Supreme Court appeared divided during arguments on Monday over the constitutionality of a provision of the Affordable Care act that can require insurance companies to offer some types of preventive care for free. At issue is a part of the 2010 health care law that established a task force that determines certain kinds of […]

Bureaucracy must be ‘active facilitator’ of growth not just ‘keeper of rule books’: PM Modi | India News

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the global churn has thrown up opportunities for India and that it was the responsibility of bureaucracy that these don’t go to waste.Addressing Civil Services Day celebrations, PM Modi said bureaucracy and policymaking cannot function on outdated frameworks in a rapidly changing world, and stressed that […]

Mondo Duplantis 2nd track and field star after Usain Bolt to win Laureus top honour

Pole Vault star Mondo Duplantis became the second track and field athlete to win the prestigious Laureus Sportsman of the Year award after a record-breaking 2024. This also ended a long wait for Duplantis, who was nominated in the last three years before finally winning the award this time around. Duplantis beat off competition from […]

Mondo Duplantis, Simone Biles Win Top Honours At Laureus World Sports Awards

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Watch: Delta Air Line passengers hold up plane’s ceiling after it ‘caves in’

Passengers of a Delta Air Lines flight were forced to “hold up” the roof of the aircraft after the ceiling’s interior “suddenly caved in” during a journey last week from Atlanta to Chicago.The incident occurred on April 14, according to a report in New York Post.Content creator Lucas Michael Payne, who said his business partner […]

Watch: Delta Air Line passengers hold up plane’s ceiling as it ‘caves in’

Passengers of a Delta Air Lines flight were forced to “hold up” the roof of the aircraft after the ceiling’s interior “suddenly caved in” during a journey last week from Atlanta to Chicago.The incident occurred on April 14, according to a report in New York Post.Content creator Lucas Michael Payne, who said his business partner […]