T20 World Cup: On the backfoot, India’s playing XI an unsolved puzzle

Spread the love       Sanju Samson during an India net session at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. (Getty Images) TimesofIndia.com in Chennai: The stakes are high. The remaining Super Eight matches are must-win games, contingent on South Africa’s results going in their favour. The situation wasn’t this desperate but the “worst game in the last two years” has now put the...

Anthropic CEO who predicted white-collar jobs will disappear in 5 yrs gives career advice for students

Spread the love       Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has advised students and younger professionals to pivot toward human-centred skills. Speaking at a recent episode of Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath’s WTF podcast, the co-founder of the artificial intelligence (AI) company that is behind the Claude chatbot that wiped billions from software, cybersecurity and other stocks has asked students and younger professionals to...

Cigarettes after tax: Smokers left fuming, tobacco black market lights up

Spread the love       When cigarette prices began climbing across India in early February, the effect was immediate and oddly chaotic. Smokers paid different prices for the same pack on the same street. Retailers blamed wholesalers. Wholesalers blamed the new tax regime. What was framed as a clean public health reform quickly revealed a messier economic story.Popular culture has long understood...

‘Puppet of foreign powers’: BJP labels Rahul, Gandhi clan & Congress ‘compromised’

Spread the love       Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal NEW DELHI: Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal, who played a key role in negotiating a trade deal with the United States, spearheaded the government’s response to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his “compromised PM” remarks, in which the rival leader levelled a series of serious allegations against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Amid the...

‘Huge mistake’: Bill Gates apologises to foundation staff over Epstein ties

Spread the love       Bill Gates apologises to foundation staff over Jeffrey Epstein ties American tech entrepreneur Bill Gates has apologised to staff at the Gates Foundation over his past ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, while maintaining that he did “nothing illicit,” according to media reports.The Microsoft co-founder acknowledged in a town hall meeting that his association with Epstein...

Rinku Singh to rejoin India squad ahead of must-win clash vs Zimbabwe

Spread the love       Rinku Singh warms up prior to the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup match between India and Netherlands at Narendra Modi Stadium on February 18, 2026 in Ahmedabad, India. (Photo/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: India’s batting coach Sitanshu Kotak on Wednesday revealed that the left-handed batter Rinku Singh will rejoin the Indian squad by evening.“Rinku Singh is joining the...

Why do so many flowers have five petals?

Spread the love       — Ajith Kizhakkethil Many flowers are indeed pentamerous — but across flowering plants as a whole, the petal number varies widely. Monocots often have flower parts in threes. Eudicots have four or five. Many species also have fused petals, others have several petals, and yet others lack them altogether. In the flower bud, new organs begin as...

Pentagon head Pete Hegseth gives an ultimatum to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

Spread the love       The showdown between the Pentagon and Anthropic over the use of its AI solutions in US military for “all lawful purposes” which reportedly include mass surveillance of American citizens and fully autonomous weapons shows no signs of cooling down. According to a report by news agency Reuters, in a tense meeting on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...

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