Techie who killed parents is mentally sound, say police BENGALURU: Was he schizophrenic and did the illness lead him to stab his parents to death? This question haunted everyone when police arrested 33-year-old software engineer Rohan Chandra on charges of stabbing his parents — Naveen Chandra Bhat, a retired Navy captain, and Shyamala Bhat —…
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces his resignation to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London There was a time when becoming Prime Minister of Britain represented the culmination of a life’s work. Men spent decades climbing party ladders, surviving ideological civil wars, losing elections, winning elections, winning wars, extending the empire, writing memoirs,…
Kota: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi waded Wednesday into India’s high-pressure exam culture, urging students in Rajasthan’s coaching hub Kota to dream beyond the familiar career script of engineer, doctor, lawyer, IAS or armed forces, while branding the education system a “rejection system” that breeds stress, despair and tragedy.Addressing more than 5,000 registered students at the…
Screenshot of video tweeted by PTI NEW DELHI: A fire broke out in an empty coach of the Hyderabad–Jaipur Special train at Hyderabad’s Nampally railway station on Friday evening, the South Central Railway said. The incident occurred while the rake was being placed on the platform ahead of its scheduled departure, it added. According to…
Julian Alvarez of Atletico de Madrid (Photo by Jose Manuel Alvarez Rey/Getty Images) Real Madrid’s attempt to sign Atletico Madrid star Julian Alvarez has ended in disappointment after their massive €150 million offer was turned down by their city rivals.The Spanish giants confirmed the bid in an official statement on Tuesday, making public what would…
Wikipedia temporarily blocked its co-founder, Larry Sanger, from editing pages on the platform, a report has claimed, adding that the block was handed down following Sanger’s demand of more balance, fairness and intellectual diversity on the heavily criticised website. Sanger co-founded the online encyclopedia alongside Jimmy Wales in 2001, coined the name “Wikipedia,” and drafted…
Harry Brook and Ben Stokes (Image: X) England are set to begin a new chapter in Test cricket following the retirement of long-time captain Ben Stokes, who called time on his international career during Day 4 of the third Test against New Zealand. With the leadership role now vacant, England’s white-ball captain Harry Brook has…
Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Gautam Gambhir (Agency Image) Afghanistan opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz credited India head coach Gautam Gambhir for helping him refine his batting approach after producing a stunning century against the hosts in the opening ODI at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala on Saturday.Gurbaz was the standout performer in Afghanistan’s innings, blasting 102 off just…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Eight years after the Trump administration renamed the US Pacific Command as the Indo-Pacific Command to signal New Delhi’s growing strategic importance in US efforts to contain China, the Pentagon has quietly reversed course.In a move laden with symbolism and timing, the department of war on Tuesday announced that INDOPACOM would…
We’ve all had moments when we’ve prayed for something deeply and then waited, hoping for a sign that our prayers were being heard. While every religion views prayer differently, one idea appears across many faiths: prayers are not always answered immediately, and the answer may not always come in the form we expect. Instead of…