NEW DELHI: Suvendu Adhikari’s rise as BJP’s choice for chief minister in West Bengal comes after years of positioning himself as the party’s most formidable anti-Mamata Banerjee face in the state. From defeating the Trinamool Congress supremo in her own den to leading the BJP’s aggressive Hindutva-driven campaign, Adhikari steadily emerged as the saffron party’s...
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Pooran grabs Krunal Pandya by collar after heated on-field exchange – Watch
Krunal Pandya and Nicholas Pooran (Screengrab) A tense on-field moment between Nicholas Pooran and Krunal Pandya grabbed attention during the high-scoring IPL 2026 clash between Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bengaluru in Lucknow on Thursday.The incident took place during LSG’s innings after Krunal bowled a short delivery to Pooran. The left-hander pulled the ball...
Ahmedabad Air India crash: Minister says probe in final stage, report expected next month
<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130960580,imgsize-1012229,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/air-india-crash-probe.jpg" alt="Ahmedabad Air India crash: Minister says probe in final stage, report expected next month" title=" . ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> NEW DELHI: The investigation into the Air India AI 171 crash in Ahmedabad, which killed 260 people in June 2025, is in its final stage, and the report is expected to be made public...
After 92,000 layoffs in 2026, experts fear permanent shit in how work is organised in US
More than 92,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026, according to Layoffs.fyi. With these new figures the total count of laid off employees reached nearly 9,00,000 since 2020. As reported by CNBC, the recent job cut announcements made by Meta and Microsoft, which together could eliminate more than 20,000 jobs, underline the growing...
First win since 2005: India on verge of first U-17 Asian Cup knockout berth in 21 years
Photo credit: X/@IndianFootball India kept alive their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the AFC Under-17 Women’s Asian Cup with a 4-0 win over Lebanon in their final Group B match at the Suzhou Taihu Football Sports Centre in China on Friday.Pritika Barman scored twice in the 6th and 85th minutes, while Alva Devi Senjam...
Gulf crisis: Air India says no layoffs planned, asks staff to cut discretionary spending
<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130959753,imgsize-1250220,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/air-india-file-photo.jpg" alt="Middle East crisis: Air India says no layoffs planned, asks staff to cut discretionary spending" title=" Air India (File Photo) ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Air India (File Photo) Air India has told employees that it does not anticipate layoffs despite mounting financial pressures linked to the Middle East conflict, while also directing teams to...
Op Sindoor: How close India and Pakistan came to the brink one year ago
NEW DELHI: You can choose your friends, but not your neighbours. In India’s case, the neighbour it inherited after Partition was Pakistan, a country with which its ties have been defined by wars, mistrust and recurring conflict ever since Independence.Whenever the two countries have entered direct military confrontation, the outcome has largely remained the same:...
Meet Norbert Wiener: MIT prof who predicted in 1950 that machines would make decisions for humans
Norbert Wiener was one of the most unusual mathematicians of the 20th century: a child prodigy who graduated from Tufts at 14, earned a Harvard PhD at 18, and spent most of his career at MIT. During World War II, his work on anti-aircraft fire-control problems helped lead him to the idea of cybernetics, the...
Suvendu Adhikari: Ex-Mamata loyalist, who defeated her twice, to be Bengal’s 1st BJP CM
Amit Shah with Suvendu Adhikari (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: In what seemed largely impossible in 2021, became exhaustively debatable five years later. Can Suvendu Adhikari defeat Mamata in home turf Bhabanipur? The question gained political legitimacy in 2026 given the nail-biting contest in 2021 Nandigram battle, where Mamata had challenged her ex-protege.Taking the battle to...
After 43 yrs, US family sells electrical firm for $1.7bn; gives 540 workers $240m
A small-town boss in the US state of Louisiana has handed his 540 full-time employees a combined $240 million after selling his family’s company, with the average worker walking away with around $443,000.Graham Walker, former CEO of Fibrebond Corp. in Minden, sold the electrical-equipment enclosure maker to power-management giant Eaton for $1.7 billion last year....
