NEW DELHI: When BJP leader J P Nadda had said in 2023 that “regional parties promoting family and corruption are destined to be wiped out”, no one would have thought that his prophecy would turn true so soon.The last three years have seen many regional satraps not just lose power but also lose their clout….
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday hit out at the Uttar Pradesh government over the death of a journalist, who had recently run a story on the liquor mafia and was killed in what police said was a road accident. The Congress general secretary accused the Yogi Adityanath dispensation of “nurturing jungle…
Communities dig water-harvesting pits to restore degraded land and improve soil moisture in the Sahel. For decades, the Sahel has symbolised environmental decline. Stretching nearly 5,900 kilometres across Africa from Senegal on the Atlantic coast to Sudan on the Red Sea, this semi-arid belt has endured recurring droughts, advancing desertification and repeated crop failures since…
Quote of the day by Stephen Hawking In a single sentence, Stephen Hawking manages to make you feel very small and very important at the same time. First he cuts us down to size. We are clever apes, he says, living on an unremarkable planet, circling an ordinary star, in a universe almost too vast…
PUNE: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday evening arrested a student, who allegedly received physics questions from Pune school headmistress Manisha Havaldar, in connection with the NEET-UG question paper leak case. With this, the total number of people arrested in the case has risen to 12.The student, whose phone number was reportedly saved…
Dipke reacts to Jaipur attack (X) Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke urged supporters to remain peaceful and stay focused on their demand for the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, while responding to the attack on him during a protest in Jaipur on Monday.In a post on X, Dipke described the assault…
NEW DELHI: Newly sworn-in West Bengal cabinet minister Swapan Dasgupta on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC), alleging that the party had left the state in a “completely devastated” condition. He said the immediate priority of the newly formed BJP-led government was to remove the “kachhra” (garbage) left behind by the…
MUMBAI: Indians are turning to ice creams, colas, soft drinks and packaged cold coffee to survive the scorching heat, spurring sales of summer products for consumer goods companies and nudging some to upwardly revise their earlier sales estimates for the season.In a summer of price hikes and broader inflationary environment, firms are however pushing lower…
Heartbreak is often treated like an event – something that “happens” and then slowly gets over with time.But for many people, that’s not how it unfolds.Long after the last conversation ends and the digital traces fade, something else begins. Not dramatic. Not visible. But deeply internal. You don’t wake up “healed” one day. You wake…
Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading US artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems designed to advance China’s defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese academic papers and patents.The previously unreported findings, based on research reviewed by Reuters and material compiled by…