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<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130309343,imgsize-1265013,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-2026-04-16t191603.jpg" alt="India’s big nuclear leap: How Stage 2 criticality at Kalpakkam will power the road to energy security" title=" AI image ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> ‘No power is as costly as no power’ – Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the father of India’s nuclear programme, had once famously said. Several decades later, India’s nuclear energy ambitions have...

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Lalit Modi NEW DELHI: Former IPL chairman Lalit Modi has made a bold prediction about young cricketer Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, saying he could become the face of Indian cricket in the future. Known for spotting talent early, Modi recalled being completely stunned the first time he saw the teenager bat during the IPL.Speaking...

A discreet complaint about a young employee’s behavioral changes at TCS Nashik BPO triggered a covert police investigation. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court advocate Ashwini Upadhyay on Thursday filed a plea seeking to declare forced religious conversions a “terrorist act.”The plea came in the backdrop of allegations of religious conversion and sexual harassment at Tata Consultancy...

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took aim at the Centre in the Lok Sabha on Thursday while speaking on the proposed women’s reservation bill, using a sharp Chanakya reference that drew laughter from Union home minister Amit Shah himself and the treasury bench MPs.Backing the idea of reserving seats for...

Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun has reportedly declined to speak with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, a Lebanese official said. This follows after US president Donald Trump suggested the two leaders were set to hold historic talks.“We told America we aren’t ready to take that step,” an official was quoted as saying by CNN.Officials in Lebanon...

Michael Vaughan with Lalit Modi (Video grab) NEW DELHI: Former England captain Michael Vaughan was left visibly stunned during a candid interaction with former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi, as a conversation about Ferraris turned into the highlight of their interview on The Overlap Cricket.The exchange unfolded during a tour of Modi’s England residence, where the...

Vaishali and coach RB Ramesh carrying Pranesh M (Photo by Michal Walusza and Chennai Grand Masters) NEW DELHI: Chennai Grand Masters is an elite-level annual closed tournament held every year in what is widely considered the chess capital of India. Divided into two sections, Masters and Challengers, players from different countries are invited to compete...

There are movies that become such cultural icons that they reverberate through the ages. Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is one of them, leaving a cultural imprint so big that you can just quote the movie’s lines without context. And the most popular meme from that, which any fan can quote out of memory, is Ezekiel...

ANI file photo Europe has “maybe 6 weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said on Thursday, warning that flight cancellations could begin “soon” if oil supplies continue to be disrupted due to the Iran war, as cited by AP.Fatih Birol described the situation as “the largest energy...

NEW DELHI: A ground collision between two aircraft at Indira Gandhi International Airport on Thursday damaged both planes after a SpiceJet aircraft, while taxiing, struck a stationary Akasa Air plane.According to a SpiceJet spokesperson, a B737-700 aircraft was involved in a ground incident while taxiing on April 16. The aircraft’s right winglet struck the left-hand...