Pakistan has always believed that geography can compensate for weakness. It sits at the intersection of South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East, possesses nuclear weapons, maintains relationships with superpowers who have shared cold ties, and has spent decades convincing bigger powers that it is too strategically important to ignore. That belief has shaped…
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has announced a new “detect-delete-deport” policy targeting illegal immigrants, including Bangladeshis and Rohingyas. KOLKATA: “Jaldi jaldi bhago nahi toh jo karna hai sarkar karega.” With this blunt warning, West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari has made it clear that his government won’t be walking back on its stance of…
Poor nighttime cooling disrupts sleep & increases risk of heat stroke: Expert MUMBAI: In Mumbai, the number of ‘unusually warm nights’ in a year more than doubled from an average of 12 nights in 1981-2010 to 26 in 2011-2024, according to an analysis of IMD data by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).“Poor…
(Image Credits: Pinterest) Picture it. It’s 7:00 AM on Eid-ul-Adha. You’re somehow already sweating. The house smells incredibly rich. It is a heavy, delicious mix of expensive attar, frying onions, and the sheer khurma your mom has been fiercely guarding since last night. Someone in the other room is frantically tearing through drawers looking for…
Rajasthan Royals’ Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo) Fifteen-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi continues to rewrite IPL history with astonishing ease, and his breathtaking 97 off just 29 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2026 Eliminator has now become one of the most destructive innings the tournament has ever witnessed. The Rajasthan Royals opener recorded the second-highest strike rate…
NEW DELHI: The ED does not necessarily require a predicate offence — an FIR registered for any scheduled offence by any enforcement agency — to initiate a probe under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).While vacating a stay on the ED probe against Cochin Minerals and Rutile Limited (CMRL), a public listed company of…
Photo credit: Zen technologies As low-cost drones, swarm UAVs and first-person-view attackdrones increasingly reshape modern warfare from Ukraine to West Asia, India is accelerating efforts to build indigenous counter-drone systems capable ofdetecting, jamming and physically destroying hostile aerial threats.Zen Technologies unveils AI-powered anti drone systemAt the North Tech Symposium 2026 in Prayagraj, Hyderabad-based Zen Technologies…
Stephen Hawking quote of the day Some quotes sound intelligent immediately and then disappear from memory a few minutes later. Others seem to sit quietly in the mind and become more interesting with time. This quote, widely associated with Stephen Hawking, feels like one of those lines that grows heavier the longer a person thinks…
New Delhi: Chairing a Pragati meeting on Wednesday, PM Narendra Modi told housing and urban affairs ministry officials to first identify 50 cities and achieve 100% cleanliness in them in all aspects, from making them garbage free to processing all their solid and liquid waste.TOI has learnt that Modi suggested that ministry and state govts…
The era of software engineers writing code line by line is officially over, according to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Speaking at a recent industry conference, the tech veteran revealed that a massive shift hit the software industry late last year, completely altering how computer engineers work. Schmidt confessed that he is personally “in mourning”…