Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s consumer chief marketing officer and one of its longest-serving executives, is leaving the company after 35 years. He announced the decision in an internal memo to staff on Thursday, first reported by Business Insider. Mehdi isn’t walking out the door immediately. He plans to work through the next fiscal year—which at Microsoft...
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How physicists are finding new ways to make electrons act strangely
For most of the last two centuries, we have not had to think much about electricity. At the start of this period, we were just beginning to understand what it was. And towards the end, climate change and renewable energy has rendered it a constant thought in our minds. But for many decades in between,...
Why Vaibhav Sooryavanshi plays only as Impact Player for RR
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) MUMBAI: He has left the cricketing world spellbound with his tremendous hitting abilities, with sixes and fours raining off his marauding blade relentlessly but Rajasthan’s explosive opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has also faced a bit of scrutiny for playing as an ‘Impact Player,’ which means that he has only batted during...
The big AI shock: Have Indian IT sector stocks lost their lustre?
IT stocks crash (AI image) Globally technology sector stocks are leading stock market rallies. In India, the picture is the opposite. The Nifty IT index has dropped around 23% since the start of the year, sharply underperforming the broader market decline of around 10%.In fact, IT has been the worst-performing major sector in the Indian...
Future wars will span cyber, cognitive domains: CDS Anil Chauhan
NEW DELHI: Chief of defence staff Anil Chauhan on Saturday said future wars will be fought across multiple domains including land, sea, air, cyberspace and cognitive warfare, as he inaugurated the NIBE Defence Manufacturing Complex in Maharashtra’s Shirdi and described the city as an emerging hub of defence manufacturing and technological innovation.Addressing the inauguration ceremony,...
‘Housefull board pics make me very happy’: Suriya celebrates success of Karuppu
3 min readHyderabadMay 23, 2026 05:14 PM IST Karuppu has crossed Rs 200 crore at the worldwide box office. The housefull boards are up across Tamil Nadu. And Suriya, at the film’s success meet, had a few things to say about how close it came to not being what it is. “We shot that climax...
Marco Rubio invites PM Modi to visit White House on ‘behalf of Trump’
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the White House in the near future on behalf of US President Donald Trump, signalling a renewed push to deepen ties between New Delhi and Washington despite tensions over trade in recent months.The invitation was announced by US Ambassador to India...
Long-awaited anti-COVID drug is also a milestone against future viruses
The recent success of Ensitrelvir at preventing COVID-19 is a milestone in a drug quest that began with a singular development at the start of the pandemic. In January 2020, the full-length genome sequence of a strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus was posted on an online discussion forum for virologists. The sequence revealed that SARS-CoV-2,...
Kendall Jenner likes waking up early, hates all nighters: ‘They give me anxiety’
4 min readNew DelhiMay 23, 2026 05:00 PM IST Kendall Jenner’s demanding modelling career leaves her with a packed schedule, and waking up early helps her stay on top of her game. Early start to the day helps her juggle between flights, photo shoots and campaigns while also carving out time to work out and...
‘Neither unemployed nor am I lazy but … ‘: Sonam Wangchuk calls himself ‘an honorary cockroach’
PTI file photo Environmentalist and educationist Sonam Wangchuk on Saturday expressed support for the online “cockroach” movement led by the self-styled “Cockroach Janata Party” (CJP), calling himself an “honorary cockroach”.He also urged the government to engage with the concerns raised by youngsters instead of suppressing their digital expression.When asked whether he would formally join the...


