Spread the love Glasgow: India’s Neeraj Chopra during the men’s javelin throw final at the Commonwealth Games 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland. Chopra wins the silver medal in this event. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary)(PTI08_01_2026_000155B) New Delhi: India finished the 2026 Commonwealth Games with 39 medals to its name – 13 gold, 17 silver and nine bronze. It placed India in fourth place...
As France sees its first fire cloud, should India be worried?
Spread the love Could India get its own fire cloud? (Image: AP) In July 2026, firefighters in southwest France watched something the country had never recorded before: a burning forest near Bordeaux, which manifested as a churning, anvil-shaped cloud, dark with smoke and crackling with its own lightning. It was a pyrocumulonimbus, a “fire cloud”, born when a wildfire burns...
‘3rd injury back to back’: Rashmika Mandanna’s hip tendon ‘detached’; what you need to know
Spread the love 4 min readNew DelhiAug 4, 2026 03:55 PM IST Bollywood actors are often lauded for their intense dedication to fitness, but Rashmika Mandanna’s freak accident while shooting for the upcoming film Mysaa reminds us that even our favourite stars are human. Taking to Instagram last night, the Cocktail 2 actor spilt the beans on a hip injury that...
From sugar subsidies to PLI schemes, here’s what New Delhi is defending at WTO
Spread the love India is currently defending nine trade disputes at the World Trade Organization (WTO), with countries including Japan, China, the European Union (EU), Brazil and Australia challenging a range of its trade measures. The government has so far spent about Rs 2.43 crore on empanelled law firms to fight these cases, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.In a written...
‘Many friends yet to return’: Patna students restart protest over NEET stir crackdown
Spread the love The protesters gathered at Gandhi Maidan before marching towards the CM’s residence. NEW DELHI: Hundreds of students and youth activists took to the streets in Patna on Tuesday, accusing the Bihar government of failing to honour its promise to release students arrested during last month’s NEET paper leak protests. Police used water cannons to disperse the march...
To live better, never stop learning
Spread the love It is estimated that in India on an average day, about 19,500 people celebrate their 60th birthday. The size of India’s population aged 60 and above is expected to surpass the population aged 0-14 years by 2046. Accompanying this ‘silver tsunami’ is the dizzying pace of new technologies, which go from being useful to becoming indispensable. And there...
Why anesthesiologists always ask if you snore before surgery
Spread the love 4 min readNew DelhiAug 4, 2026 02:56 PM IST If you’ve ever undergone surgery, you may have noticed an unexpected question during your pre-anaesthesia assessment: “Do you snore?” At first, it might seem unrelated to the procedure. After all, what does snoring have to do with anaesthesia? But according to Dr Sulaiman Ladhani, Consultant Pulmonology, Wockhardt Hospitals,...
‘Cricket has an alcohol culture, not just England’: Ben Stokes
Spread the love Ben Stokes. (Reuters Photo) Former England Test captain Ben Stokes has dismissed suggestions that England alone has a drinking problem, arguing that alcohol has long been embedded in cricket’s culture across all levels of the sport. Speaking on the For The Love of Cricket podcast with former teammates Stuart Broad and Jos Buttler, the 35-year-old reflected on...
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman gives millions to save eagles Jackie and Shadow’s home
Spread the love Bald eagles Jackie and Shadow at their Big Bear Valley nest. (Image credit: Friends of Big Bear Valley) IThe 63 acres of shoreline forest below Jackie and Shadow’s nest was supposed to become 50 luxury homes and a marina. It won’t, because Greg Brockman, OpenAI‘s co-founder and president, and his wife Anna wrote a $5.5 million cheque...
‘Crass and cheap’: Kushboo, Chinmayi slam Udhayanidhi Stalin over remarks on CM Vijay
Spread the love 5 min readKochiAug 4, 2026 02:43 PM IST A fresh political row has erupted in Tamil Nadu after actor-turned-politician Udhayanidhi Stalin, the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, was arrested on Tuesday, July 4, over allegedly sexually suggestive remarks about Chief Minister Vijay’s friendship with a female Tamil actor. Udhayanidhi made the remarks during a Dravida...
