video allegedly showing a tourist couple being harassed and the man assaulted on the road to Kapilash (Photo credit: X) DHENKANAL: A 26-year-old man and a woman in her 20s travelling to the Kapilash shrine in Dhenkanal on a motorcycle were allegedly intercepted and assaulted by a group of men, with a video purportedly capturing...
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‘The brain is two organs’: What Stanford scientists discovered about how it develops
3 min readNew DelhiSep 22, 2026 05:00 PM IST A new study led by Stanford Medicine found that the brain is “two separate organs adjacent to one another”. The finding, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience on September 18, 2026, claims to help improve research into “devastating neurological diseases”. Scientists have struggled for decades to...
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Trump’s double standards: Russian oil bad for India, Belarusian potash good for US?
Trump administration faces flak from critics over Belarus potash deal amid pressure on India over Russian energy TOI correspondent from Washington: Critics are calling out the Trump administration for hypocrisy and double standards after MAGA supremo Donald Trump announced a potash (fertiliser) deal on Monday with Belarus, a close ally of Moscow, days after he...
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Wyoming storage shed turns out to be 140-year-old Chinese laundry
The building has moved to Pioneer Village for restoration and display. (Pictures: Cowboy state daily) A weathered cabin that spent decades being used as a storage shed behind a building on Main Street in Lander, Wyoming, has been identified as a late 19th-century Chinese laundry and bathhouse. The building belonged to Sam Sing, one of...
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India warns tourists in Malaysia: Beware of fake job offers under 30-day visa-free entry
The High Commission clarified that the 30-day visa-free facility available to Indian passport holders is meant only for tourism. India has warned its nationals against using Malaysia’s 30-day visa-free entry facility to seek employment, cautioning them about agents making false job promises.The High Commission of India in Kuala Lumpur said there has been a “noticeable...
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The Revisit: When WWI reached India as German ship bombed Madras
German cruiser SMS Emden that bombarded the city during the WWI on September 22. When World War I broke out in Europe in July 1914, Madras was thousands of kilometres away from the battlefields. Yet there was little certainty among British authorities that the war would remain confined to Europe. The city’s strategic importance as...
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அமைச்சர் கீர்த்தனாவுக்கு என்ன ஆச்சு? அறுவை சிகிச்சை நடந்துருக்கா? கனிமொழி சொல்வது என்ன?
தமிழ்நாட்டில் தொழில் முதலீடுகளை ஈர்க்கும் நோக்கில் முதலமைச்சர் லண்டன் சென்றிருந்தார். இந்தப் பயணத்தில் தொழில் துறை அமைச்சர் கீர்த்தனா பங்கேற்காதது அரசியல் வட்டாரத்தில் பேசுபொருளானது. இதுகுறித்து அமைச்சர் ஆதவ் அர்ஜுனாவிடம் செய்தியாளர்கள் கேள்வி எழுப்பியபோது, கீர்த்தனாவுக்கு உடல்நலக் குறைவு ஏற்பட்டிருந்ததாகவும், சில நாட்கள் ஓய்வெடுக்க வேண்டிய சூழல் இருந்ததாகவும் தெரிவித்திருந்தார். மேலும், அவரது உடல்நிலை குறித்த தகவலை வெளிப்படையாக தெரிவிக்க முடியாத சூழல் இருந்ததாகவும் அவர் கூறியிருந்தார். இந்த நிலையில், கீர்த்தனாவின் உடல்நிலை குறித்து கனிமொழி சந்தோஷ்...
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‘Bihar is being shamed’: Tejashwi seeks Samrat’s resignation over Jamui incident
Tejashwi demands Samrat Choudhary’s resignation over Jamui incident NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday demanded Bihar chief minister Samrat Choudhary’s resignation over the alleged harassment of two minor students, including a girl, in Jamui, saying the incident showed that “women and girls are not safe anywhere in Bihar”.Addressing a presser in Patna, the...
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Heavy LHB bogie corrosion worries Railways; toilet leaks, saline air blamed
The report identified several other factors that can contribute to severe corrosion India made the switch from ICF design to LHB coaches in 2003 when the first such German-technology coaches were imported. Since then it has increasingly indigenized the coaches and now manufactures only LHB passenger coaches apart from train sets.But, recently senior railway engineers...
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AI experts warn against ‘apocalyptic’ rhetoric on risks
Several experts on a United Nations artificial intelligence committee have warned against the apocalyptic rhetoric used by some professionals in the sector regarding AI risks. “As scientists, it’s very important to invest in the science, to really understand what we know (from) what we don’t know, and investing in fear is not that helpful,” said...
