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TOI correspondent from Washington:President Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality.” Vice-President JD Vance is an opportunist who became a Trump supporter not out of conviction but political convenience. Trump’s name is in the Epstein files and he was on Epstein’s plane, but there is no evidence that Bill Clinton ever visited Epstein’s private island. Elon Musk...

From left, this combo of file pictures shows cricketers Prashant Veer, Auqib Nabi Dar and Kartik Sharma. (PTI) The IPL 2026 player auction began with limited action in the uncapped players’ category before Prashant Veer and Kartik Sharma were signed by Chennai Super Kings for Rs 14.20 crore each, setting a new record for uncapped...

Rejected at last year’s IPL auction, Tejasvi Singh Dahiya rebuilt himself under a harsh, gurukul-style training regime in Bhopal. Son of two schoolteachers and armed with a fearless batting mindset, the Delhi batter’s Rs 3 crore KKR deal now offers him a chance to turn sacrifice, discipline and six-hitting flair into an IPL breakthrough. NEW...

CLAT 2026 result: The Consortium of National Law Universities (CNLUs) has officially declared the Common Law Admission Test 2026 (CLAT 2026) results on December 16, 2025. Candidates who appeared for the national-level law entrance examination can now download their official scorecards by logging in to the CLAT 2026 portal available at consortiumofnlus.ac.in.CLAT 2026 was conducted...

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma (File photo) NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday warned that India would not remain silent and teach a “lesson” if politicians in Bangladesh continued to make remarks about India’s northeastern region.His comments came a day after Hasnat Abdullah, a senior leader of the newly formed National...

TL;DR: Driving the newsChina’s economic engine sputtered hard in November, with retail sales rising just 1.3% – the weakest since December 2022, when “zero-Covid” ended – and industrial production slowing to 4.8%, a 15-month low.Meanwhile, fixed-asset investment dropped 2.6%, the worst performance in decades, and property investment plunged nearly 16%. Even the usually robust auto...

Prithviraj Chavan (PTI image) NEW DELHI: A political storm erupted on Tuesday after former Maharashtra chief minister and senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan claimed that India was “completely defeated” on the first day of Operation Sindoor, while questioning the conduct of the military operation. His remarks triggered sharp criticism from the BJP.Speaking to reporters in...

AI generated image Driving the newsThe Donald Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) doesn’t just chart a course-it redraws the map. Released quietly at night, the 29-page document abandons decades of bipartisan foreign-policy orthodoxy in favor of a singular, transactional view of global power-and puts India at the crossroads.In this Trumpian worldview: Allies are...

After getting home from work, an employee looked at their notes and realised something was wrong. A mistake made during the day would affect a customer, and it was not clear whether it could be fixed quickly. What followed was a familiar spiral of anxiety.“I am absolutely beside myself,” the employee wrote in a Reddit...

NEW DELHI: Bihar minority affairs minister Zama Khan on Tuesday defended Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after a row erupted over an incident in which he was seen removing the hijab of a woman doctor during a public function.Addressing the issue, Khan said, “The CM is, perhaps, older than the father of the woman in question....