Ever wondered how Barack Obama maintains his cool despite living under public scrutiny, peppered with hectic campaigns and election rallies? The secret to his regulated nervous system lies in ditching cable news. In a recent interview at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, the former US President revealed that he hasn’t watched...
NEW DELHI: Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday kept Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif waiting for more than 40 minutes before the Pakistani leader “gatecrashed” into an ongoing meeting between Putin and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to RT.As per RT correspondent, “PM Sharif waited for over 40 minutes for President Putin before growing...
NIA raids Hazaribag home of suspected ISIS operative Shahnawaz Alam; HAZARIBAG: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out an early morning raid in Hazaribag in connection with the recent bomb blast near Red Fort in Delhi. A six-member NIA team, accompanied by CRPF and police personnel, reached Ansar Nagar under the jurisdiction of...
South Africa’s players celebrate the wicket of India’s Shubman Gill during the second T20 International cricket match of series between India and South Africa, at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, in New Chandigarh. (PTI Photo) Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan said Shubman Gill is under pressure because of his recent poor form in T20Is....
Achal Agrawal founded the India Research Watch (IRW) after his observations of grave academic misconduct in India. Dr. Agrawal, now a freelance data scientist in Raipur, told scientific journal Nature how shocked he was when a student spoke casually of using software to publish his work. This amounts to plagiarism, Dr. Agrawal said, but the...
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...
