Spread the love The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is being poisoned by politicisation. With each passing year of late, it is a darker shadow of its once-formidable self, on the brink of a history in which it is no longer an engine of national growth. In the recent past, the organisation has suffered a non-trivial number of high-profile launch anomalies...
Up to 10-year jail & Rs 10 crore fine: Cabinet clears tougher anti-paper leak bill
Spread the love The Union Cabinet on Friday approved amendments to the anti-paper leak law, proposing up to 10 years’ imprisonment and a fine of up to Rs 10 crore for offenders. NEW DELHI: The Union cabinet on Friday approved amendments to the Prevention of Paper Leak law, proposing tougher penalties for those involved in examination paper leaks.According to sources,...
Indian-origin man says he would not move to US today on H-1B visa
Spread the love Mohamed Zeeshan, an Indian-origin man who moved to the United States after being attracted to its ‘values’ has now said he ‘wouldn’t do it today’ on an H-1B visa. The 32-year-old was born in Indonesia to Indian parents and moved back to India at the age of 7.“In Indonesia, everyone knew me as the Indian kid, and...
Nokia once sold 2 in 5 phones on Earth, then lost it all in 7 years
Spread the love 130 countries and a name that everyone remembered, that’s how successful Nokia once was. The Finnish company that spent its first century making rubber boots, toilet paper, cables and gas masks reinvented itself in the 1990s as the world’s dominant mobile phone maker, controlling roughly a third of global handset sales by 2000. But within the next...
‘Risk of misuse’: Govt tells GitHub to take down Bluetooth-based Bitchat app
Spread the love The app allows anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification or centralised logging of messages NEW DELHI: The Union government’s cybercrime coordination centre has directed Microsoft-owned GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging application developed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, citing concerns that it could be misused by terrorists, organised crime groups and anti-national...
Govt ready on 2 demands, CJP adamant on Pradhan’s resignation: What happened in round 2 of talks
Spread the love NEW DELHI: A delegation of the Cockroach Janata Party met Union ministers JP Nadda and Jitendra Singh on Friday for the second round of talks over the NEET paper leak protests, submitting three key demands and a five-point reform charter.The nearly two-hour meeting, held at the Constitution Club of India, ended without a final decision, with the...
‘Eye damaged’: Rahul presents alleged pellet gun victim, calls Pradhan ‘criminal’
Spread the love Rahul Gandhi brings alleged pellet gun victim before media (Image/X) New Delhi: Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday renewed his demand for the removal of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, accusing him of being responsible for the alleged NEET paper leak and the ongoing crisis in the education system.Addressing a press...
10% US tariff on India: What it means for the country’s exports
Spread the love The United States has imposed a 10% tariff on Indian goods under Section 301, but economists believe the immediate impact on India’s exports will be limited.While the move offers some relief compared with higher tariff proposals, they say that the real challenge lies in reducing the country’s dependence on a single export market by broadening its global...
TOI Exclusive: Olympian Tulika Maan provisionally suspended by NADA, set to miss Glasgow CWG
Spread the love India’s Tulika Maan (PTI photo) New Delhi: India’s Commonwealth Games campaign has suffered another major blow with Olympian and 2022 Birmingham CWG’s silver medallist Tulika Maan being provisionally suspended by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for alleged whereabouts failures, ending her Glasgow 2026 participation even without flying out of India.Sources told TOI that Tulika, one of India’s...
‘Don’t back down’: H Vinoth recounts what Vijay said when CBFC blocked Jana Nayagan
Spread the love 5 min readHyderabadJul 24, 2026 03:16 PM IST Director H Vinoth has given his most detailed account yet of the censor controversy that delayed Jana Nayagan by six months, revealing that the CBFC examining committee initially had no objections to the film, that the upload portal did not open after the requested cuts were made, and that...
