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R Vaishali (Photo by Niki Riga) NEW DELHI: As the FIDE Candidates 2026 in Cyprus heads into a much-needed rest day, India’s Vaishali Rameshbabu has emerged as the woman to beat.The 24-year-old, despite a draw in the 10th round, has broken away from the pack to become the sole table-topper in the women’s section, which...

LSG owner Sanjiv Goenka hugs Mukul Choudhary after the win. (X Photo) NEW DELHI: It was an emotional night at the Eden Gardens as Lucknow Super Giants pulled off a thrilling last-ball win over Kolkata Knight Riders, but what truly captured hearts was what followed after the final delivery.Youngster Mukul Choudhary, who scripted the dramatic...

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom, has predicted that the standard way of working in office is going to change sooner than expected. He said that the five-day workweek is headed for the history books because with the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI), humans may soon only need to work...

‘Dhurandhar 2’ is slowing down at the box office. The film, directed by Aditya Dhar and starring Ranveer Singh in the lead, witnessed another dip in numbers on Thursday, thus ending week three on a new low.Dhurandhar 2 Review ‘Dhurandhar 2’ day 22 box office collections The spy action film that has been on a...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130156416,imgsize-288784,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/mp-tribal-women-on-funeral-pyres-oppose-river-linking.jpg" alt="MP tribal women on 'funeral pyres' oppose river linking" title=" Project Crucial For Parts Of MP & UP: Officials ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Project Crucial For Parts Of MP & UP: Officials BHOPAL: Hundreds of tribal farmers, mostly women, lay on mock funeral pyres in MP’s Chhatarpur district on Thursday during a protest against...

Former chief minister J Jayalithaa often campaigned from her campaign vehicle, with her close aide V K Sasikala seated in the back, watching as constituents and media gathered around her van. Sasikala has now moved to the front.Evoking memories of Jayalalithaa’s roadshows, Sasikala delivers short speeches from her van at key constituencies in south Tamil...

KOLKATA: Bengal’s favourite ‘maachh-bhaat’ filled the poll plate on Thursday as PM Narendra Modi accused Trinamool Congress of failing to feed the piscine-loving state enough fish, seeking to turn on its head a debate triggered by CM Mamata Banerjee’s party portraying BJP as being “anti-non-vegetarian”. In Haldia, where he addressed the first of his three...

KOLKATA: Shamsherganj and Lalgola constituencies of Bengal’s Muslim-dominant Murshidabad district had the highest number of voters removed from the electoral rolls after post-SIR judicial adjudication, while the Purulia-Jhargram tribal belt reported the least deletions, based on collated Election Commission data released on Thursday. The figures for Murshidabad – 74,775 deletions out of 1,08,400 names that...

KOLKATA/RANAGHAT: A 97-year-old Partition refugee who never missed a vote is struck off the rolls. A 72-year-old retired teacher who presided over a dozen polls is deleted despite papers. A 68-year-old collapsed and died in a tribunal queue. Fallout from SIR has rippled across Bengal. Subarna Bala Poddar, born in undivided Bengal and displaced in...

Mukul Choudhary (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants’ stunning last-ball win over Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2026 had a new hero, as young Mukul Choudhary announced himself on the big stage with a fearless match-winning knock. Chasing 182, LSG looked down and out at one stage, but Choudhary’s explosive unbeaten 54 off 27...