Mohamed Zeeshan, an Indian-origin man who moved to the United States after being attracted to its ‘values’ has now said he ‘wouldn’t do it today’ on an H-1B visa. The 32-year-old was born in Indonesia to Indian parents and moved back to India at the age of 7.“In Indonesia, everyone knew me as the Indian...
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Nokia once sold 2 in 5 phones on Earth, then lost it all in 7 years
130 countries and a name that everyone remembered, that’s how successful Nokia once was. The Finnish company that spent its first century making rubber boots, toilet paper, cables and gas masks reinvented itself in the 1990s as the world’s dominant mobile phone maker, controlling roughly a third of global handset sales by 2000. But within...
‘Risk of misuse’: Govt tells GitHub to take down Bluetooth-based Bitchat app
The app allows anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification or centralised logging of messages NEW DELHI: The Union government’s cybercrime coordination centre has directed Microsoft-owned GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging application developed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, citing concerns that it could be misused by terrorists, organised crime groups...
Govt ready on 2 demands, CJP adamant on Pradhan’s resignation: What happened in round 2 of talks
NEW DELHI: A delegation of the Cockroach Janata Party met Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh on Friday for the second round of talks over the NEET paper leak protests, submitting three key demands and a five-point reform charter.The nearly two-hour meeting, held at the Constitution Club of India, ended without a final decision,...
‘Eye damaged’: Rahul presents alleged pellet gun victim, calls Pradhan ‘criminal’
Rahul Gandhi brings alleged pellet gun victim before media (Image/X) New Delhi: Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday renewed his demand for the removal of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, accusing him of being responsible for the alleged NEET paper leak and the ongoing crisis in the education system.Addressing...
10% US tariff on India: What it means for the country’s exports
The United States has imposed a 10% tariff on Indian goods under Section 301, but economists believe the immediate impact on India’s exports will be limited.While the move offers some relief compared with higher tariff proposals, they say that the real challenge lies in reducing the country’s dependence on a single export market by broadening...
TOI Exclusive: Olympian Tulika Maan provisionally suspended by NADA, set to miss Glasgow CWG
India’s Tulika Maan (PTI photo) New Delhi: India’s Commonwealth Games campaign has suffered another major blow with Olympian and 2022 Birmingham CWG’s silver medallist Tulika Maan being provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for alleged whereabouts failures, ending her Glasgow 2026 participation even without flying out of India.Sources told TOI that Tulika, one...
‘Don’t back down’: H Vinoth recounts what Vijay said when CBFC blocked Jana Nayagan
5 min readHyderabadJul 24, 2026 03:16 PM IST Director H Vinoth has given his most detailed account yet of the censor controversy that delayed Jana Nayagan by six months, revealing that the CBFC examining committee initially had no objections to the film, that the upload portal did not open after the requested cuts were made,...
Spain invokes first wildfire emergency as fires rage across Europe; over 10,000 evacuated
A wall of flames advances as a wildfire burns near Burgohondo, in Ávila province, Spain (Picture credit: AP) Spain declared a national emergency over wildfires for the first time on Friday, while France requested European Union assistance to battle a major blaze on its Atlantic coast, as an intense heatwave drove destructive fires across southern...
‘We were scared of Modi, Shah’: Cong’s Aiyar says protesting students ‘fearless’
NEW DELHI: Congress veteran Mani Shankar Aiyar on Friday joined the protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar over the alleged NEET paper leak and welcomed the dialogue between the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) and the Union government, expressing hope that the talks would lead to a positive outcome.Calling the agitation a significant moment, Aiyar said, “This...

