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Oscar Wilde led a famously colourful life that included a controversial trial in which he accused the Marquess of Queensberry – who came up with the rules of amateur boxing – of defamation. The Marquess, a Scottish nobleman enraged that Wilde was shacking up with his son, left a card calling Wilde a ‘sodomite’.A furious...

NEW DELHI: Four people have been charged with murder in the Zubeen Garg death case, Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe revealed on Friday. The singer’s cousin and suspended Assam Police officer Sandipan Garg, has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the chargesheet.Shyamkanu Mahanta, Siddhartha Sharma, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta...

NEW DELHI: For a decade, Prashant Kishor has been India’s undisputed master craftsman of elections, the strategist who could bend narratives, stitch coalitions and turn sentiment into seats to deliver wins for major politicians. The 2025 Bihar assembly polls, however, delivered a jolt: Kishor, despite months of padyatras, booth-level outreach and the full weight of...

Disney has secured a licensing partnership with OpenAI, which includes a $1 billion investment and access to Disney’s iconic characters. Company CEO Bob Iger stated the deal is designed to help the 102-year-old entertainment giant into new media and harness AI to attract younger audiences for engagement. However, this is in contrast to Disney’s legal...

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing concerns over the exponential rise in airfares due to the IndiGo crisis, aviation minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu on Friday said that the prices of flight tickets are on par with the rest of the world and that the government has taken steps to bring down prices during extraordinary times.While...

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman reveals his working-class London upbringing shaped his tech vision. The DeepMind co-founder, whose Syrian taxi driver father and nurse mother urged him to learn a trade, lived independently from age 16 before dropping out of Oxford to help Muslim youth post-9/11. Now he champions AI for social good and universal...

NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress MLA Iqbal Hussain on Friday claimed that deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar will become chief minister after the ongoing winter session of the state legislature, adding fuel to speculation over a possible leadership change within the ruling party.Speaking to reporters, the Ramanagara MLA confirmed that he attended a late-night dinner...

Free chess reaches rural India (Special arrangements) NEW DELHI: The queen was not always the strongest piece in chess. From the inception of “Chaturanga” in India in the 6th century, and through its long journey across the Middle East before reaching Europe in the 15th century, the piece we now call the queen served only...

File photo Rivaba Jadeja, wife of Indian men’s cricket team all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, has triggered debate by claiming that some cricketers take part in various vices during overseas tours, while stating that her husband has never been involved in such activities.Rivaba, while speaking in Gujarati in an event, referred to what she called the lesser-known...