NEW DELHI: The city experienced its hottest day of the year on Thursday. The Ridge logged 43 degrees Celsius, which was the highest maximum temperature this season. The Met department has predicted heatwaves on Friday and Saturday as the temperature could rise more.India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a heatwave alert across north-west India for…
NEW DELHI: The Gauhati high court on Friday rejected Congress leader Pawan Khera’s anticipatory bail plea in a case filed by Riniki Bhuyan Sharma, wife of Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.The FIR stems from Khera’s allegations that Sharma held multiple foreign passports and undisclosed overseas assets. During the previous hearing, Khera’s counsel, led by…
Nashik police have apprehended four TCS employees, already in judicial custody, on fresh charges of sexual harassment and religious insult. NASHIK: The Nashik city police have arrested four TCS employees in a case involving allegations of sexual harassment and hurting religious sentiments. The four accused had already been in judicial custody in connection with earlier…
File photo (Picture credit: AP) Asian markets showed a mixed and cautious trend on Friday, with investors remaining on edge as uncertainty around the Iran conflict and stalled US-Iran talks continued to cloud sentiment.MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan edged up 0.3% and was on track for a modest weekly gain of 0.8%.Japan’s…
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI startup Perplexity At a time when the tech world is obsessed with how artificial intelligence (AI) may ‘disrupt’ or replace our current gadgets, the CEO of one of the world’s leading AI companies has a surprising take on the most popular Apple product: the iPhone. Speaking on the This Week…
Iran lawmaker on Peace talks in Pakistan A member of Iran’s parliamentary national security and foreign policy committee, Mahmoud Nabavian, has criticised recent negotiations with the United States held in Pakistan, calling the decision to raise Tehran’s nuclear programme a “strategic mistake.”In a video clip shared from an interview with SNN TV and later posted…
BHOPAL: At a national camp in the city, Nausheen Naz, 15, trains alongside probables who own multiple kits. Naz borrows gear. Her father Ahfaz Khan, a daily-wager earning about Rs 250 a day, cannot buy her a proper hockey stick. No kit. No safety net.But the girl from Madhya Pradesh’s Seoni is India’s most exciting…
MOTHABARI (MALDA): “Apnara naam tulte esechen? Vote dite parbo? (Have you come to enlist our names? Can we cast our votes?)” — these were the cries that greeted TOI as hundreds of deleted voters mobbed this correspondent at Mothabari on polling day.Only in the first week of this month, this nondescript village made headlines after…
Dario Amodei-led AI company Anthropic is reportedly expanding its efforts to secure data centre capacity in Europe as global spending on AI infrastructure continues to rise. The company is hiring for key roles to negotiate data centre agreements in the region. As per the CNBC report, Anthropic is looking to hire for the role of…
Iran’s use of swarms of small, fast boats to seize two container ships near the Strait of Hormuz is raising fresh concerns over maritime security. It also challenges claims that US forces have neutralised Tehran’s naval threat and highlights the difficulties in reopening a vital global oil route.Speedboat operations are now part of a broader…