Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister and the newly appointed Congress party in-charge for Punjab, Sachin Pilot, Friday asked the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) to conduct a school ‘audit’ in Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-ruled Punjab with the “same courage” as it has been doing elsewher...
With barely five months to go for the high-stakes Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the ruling BJP is stepping up to sustain a positive narrative. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is working overtime on this front, even as a party section seems to be concerned over issues like yout...
At 11.18 am on January 31, Pishaura Singh, the revenue official of Gilpan, a border village in Tarn Taran district, Punjab, was tying his turban when he heard the sound — a low hum he had trained himself to hear.
Ranveer Singh, who was trying to shield his Pralay look at the airport on Friday, has finally unveiled it at a major event. Revealing his new avatar, the actor attended the launch event of the new BMW 7 Series as the brand ambassador. For the occasion, Ranveer opted for an all-bl...
Social media is filled with images of bouffant hair, aviator glasses, grainy photographs, vintage cars and the warm imperfections of analogue film. Except much of this past, set in the 1980s, never happened. It was being generated in the present.
It was the most perfect September morning that Washington could serve up: Bright, sunny, just enough chill in the air to wash away the summer’s humidity. I wasn’t eager to spend the next few hours in a windowless basement for my intel briefing, and I wouldn’t have to: The morning...
Hanuman Ansh box office collection day 36: Hanuman Ansh has emerged as an unlikely box-office winner despite the release of two new films — Akshay Kumar-Saif Ali Khan starrer Haiwaan and Manoj Bajpayee’s Last Man in Tower. The spiritual drama earned Rs 10.5 crore on Friday, surpa...
There has always been something appealing about revisiting the past. From old-school hairstyles and clothes to music and photography, different decades keep finding their way back into the present. But until recently, recreating that feeling meant relying on costumes, filters, or...
UK student visa applications fell 16 per cent in the year ending August 2026, with the latest Home Office figures showing 360,700 applications from main applicants, down from the previous year. Applications from student dependants also fell 22 per cent to 17,000. Together, the tw...
Iran-aligned Houthi forces have reached and taken control of Perim Island, also known as Mayun, in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, in a major territorial advance that could put further pressure on one of the world’s most important shipping routes and Saudi Arabia’s alternative oil-expo...
Ganapati is not only a god to be worshipped; he is a principle to be lived. Every year, as the dhol-tasha announces his arrival, Mumbai stops. India stops. A clay idol becomes the centre of our consciousness. Why does a form with an elephant head and a human body resonate so deep...
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has begun the pre-examination process for next year’s Class 10 and 12 Board examinations. The board has also invited bids to engage an agency to scan flying slips and finalise the data generated from them.
Mumbai rains alert: After a prolonged period of dry spell, Mumbai is set to witness a revival of monsoon showers, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a yellow alert (heavy rainfall) in the city as well as its neighbouring districts of Thane, Palghar and Raigad.
It’s been a while now since reality has all but caught up to the dystopias of science fiction. Take the revelation by Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic. “AI,” he said after quitting his job, “could kill us all” by the end of the decade. What’s more, there are enough p...
As it presides over the BRICS summit in Delhi Saturday, India’s challenge is two-fold: to convey the forum’s shared objective of democratizing the international system and to dispel the widespread impression that it seeks to overthrow the US-led order.
Ten days after a mid-air bomb scare forced a passenger aircraft flying on the India-Saudi Arabia route to land in Ahmedabad, an almost identical alert triggered a similar emergency at the airport on Thursday (September 10) evening.
A Congress leader in Bengal who had filed a police complaint against Bageshwar Dham’s Dhirendra Shastri over his remarks against non-veg during Durga Puja was arrested in Kolkata, hours after Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari spoke about tough action against those who burnt the rel...
Public sector banking operations across India are facing major disruptions on Friday as employees have joined a countrywide strike. The bank strike is being led by the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU)-an umbrella organisation of seven unions that represent roughly 90% of bank o...