The fallout from the dramatic India A versus Sri Lanka A clash in Dambulla continues to dominate cricket headlines, with reports now suggesting that a number of Sri Lankan cricketers have privately reached out to teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi following the heated confrontation that erupted after Monday’s Super Over thriller. The latest reports ...

Thursday’s puzzle has the kind of grid that looks gentle right up until the purple category turns the board upside down. Connections puzzle number 1103 for June 18, 2026, mixes a workout class lineup with a trio of history’s most recognized peace activists, then closes with a wordplay trap that has already tripped up plenty of players this morning. If ...

India raised export duties on aviation turbine fuel and diesel from June 16 while leaving petrol untouched, a move that looks backward until you stop watching crude. With oil prices falling after a US-Iran truce, the windfall has shifted to refining margins, and the government followed it.

Three Indian sailors have been killed in US strikes on commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. India's foreign minister has lodged a formal protest with Marco Rubio. The US State Department response effectively rebutted India's complaint.

Bengaluru-based Sarvam raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation with HCLTech leading the round at $150 million, making it India's newest AI unicorn and the first major Indian generative-AI company led by domestic rather than Silicon Valley capital.

Noida International Airport at Jewar began commercial operations on Sunday, with IndiGo flying the inaugural route from Lucknow. The Delhi NCR now has its second international air hub, with capacity scaling from 12 million passengers a year at opening toward 70 million at full buildout.

British MPs questioned Defence Secretary John Healey on Monday about the timing of the January seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker that was carrying Iranian crude, an operation now sitting awkwardly with the US-Iran memorandum the UK has agreed to support.

Lionel Messi delivered a defining World Cup moment as Argentina opened their title defense with a commanding victory over Algeria, powered by a historic hat-trick from their captain in Kansas City.The reigning champions secured a 3-0 win in their FIFA World Cup opener, with Messi once again proving decisive on footballs biggest stage. The performance not ...

Microsoft is planning to shut down Compulsion Games, the Montreal studio behind the Peabody Award-winning South of Midnight, just weeks after Xbox leadership publicly cited its creative achievements as proof of the division's ambition. The closure, unconfirmed by Microsoft, arrives as Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's restructuring enters its most consequential phase.

Officials from multiple countries tell CNN the US-Iran memorandum of understanding is a framework for discussion, not a finalized peace deal with critical details on enriched uranium, verification, and Mojtaba Khamenei's personal approval still unresolved ahead of the June 19 signing in Switzerland.

Centene is offering buyouts to most of its 61,000 employees, citing a 6 percent drop in plan membership, the expiration of enhanced ACA subsidies, and the prospect of $900 billion in Medicaid cuts over the next decade. Layoffs will follow if voluntary separations fall short of the target.

Yair Lapid and Ehud Barak have called the US-Iran deal one of the worst failures in Israel's foreign and security history, turning the agreement into a referendum on Benjamin Netanyahu's tenure as Iran emerges from the war stronger than when it began.

A leaked co-op action RPG set in 1230 would let players build their own Witcher for the first time no Geralt, no consoles, and a Scopely partnership that could rewrite CD Projekt Red's failed mobile history.

Anbernic has launched a direct replacement parts store covering 38 handheld models, from $3 rubber pads to $236 motherboards but ships no repair documentation, just as the EU's Right to Repair Directive deadline reaches the six-week mark.

A war that had hung over every chip stock for weeks came off the screens on Monday, and the money rushed back. SoftBank jumped as much as 12 percent, TSMC and Samsung climbed, oil sank below $83 and Nasdaq futures pointed higher, all on a US-Iran deal that has not yet been signed.

Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a platform that lets brands buy dynamically served placements inside Madden NFL and EA Sports FC as television upfront budgets shrink. The move reframes 120 million monthly players not as a gaming audience but as a sports media market waiting to be sold.

UN High Commissioner Volker Turk says drone strikes killed more than 1,000 civilians in Sudan in the first five months of 2026, the year the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces shifted decisively into airpower.

Google has quietly dropped the barrier to virtual flight by embedding a free browser-based simulator inside Google Earth no download, no $70 entry fee, just a browser tab and a keyboard. What rivals spent years charging for, Google is now giving away.

Capcom is methodically dismantling what went wrong with Dragon's Dogma 2 pulling microtransactions, issuing sweeping patches, and lining up a Dark Arisen expansion while simultaneously placing Onimusha on the Nintendo Switch 2. This is a company running the most deliberate IP rehabilitation in Japanese gaming right now.

Aryna Sabalenka’s rise to the top of women’s tennis has been defined by power, resilience, and a relentless pursuit of success. Yet, according to her longtime coach Anton Dubrov, the Belarusian superstar came remarkably close to abandoning the sport altogether before transforming herself into one of the most dominant players on the WTA Tour. The ...

Good morning, solvers. If you have landed here still holding your six guesses and a steady nerve, you are in the right place. Thursday’s Wordle puzzle has a habit of looking simple right up until the third row, and today’s grid is no exception. Below you will find a spoiler-free run of hints, a clear difficulty read, a full strategy breakdown, and – ...

Thursday arrives carrying one of the more forgiving skies of the month. The daily horoscope today is shaped by a Moon in Leo trine to Saturn in Aries, an aspect astrologers consider among the most cooperative in the entire Moon-Saturn trine combinations in the zodiac wheel, because the Moon’s emotional instinct and Saturn’s discipline are, for once, ...

The Contexto answer today for Wednesday, June 17, 2026, is ARROW, closing out puzzle #1368 with a solution that hid in plain sight for thousands of players chasing their daily streak. If you are still mid-guess and want to keep solving on your own, this is the spot to stop scrolling. Everything below the next paragraph confirms the word, the hints that ...

Wednesday mornings have a rhythm to them, and for a certain kind of puzzle solver, that rhythm begins the moment the honeycomb loads. There is the brief scan of the seven letters, the small thrill of spotting an easy four-letter word, and then the slower, more deliberate hunt for the one word that uses everything. Today’s NYT Spelling Bee follows that ...

Bengaluru, India June 17, 2026 Alethea Advisors, a fast-growing independent strategic transaction and corporate advisory firm, has appointed Gyanendra N Pati (Gyan) as Chief Growth and Marketing Officer (CGMO) and Gaurav Jain as Director, Head of M&A and Global Delivery, as the firm builds out its M&A and cross-border advisory capabilities. Gyanendra, who ...