Spread the love       R Ashwin on Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma (Agency Image) Amid speculation over Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli’s ODI futures, former India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has questioned the timing of the debate, insisting that if the selectors wanted to move on from the veteran duo ahead of the 2027 ODI World Cup, they should have communicated that...

Spread the love       Far below the surface of the Pacific, off the southeastern coast of Japan, there’s a place where the Earth is quietly minting gold. Not in glittering nuggets or chunky veins, but in forms so small and hidden that you can’t see them with your eyes—or even with a regular microscope.Japanese researchers have been studying this submerged volcanic...

Spread the love       Argentina players hold a banner with the words “The Malvinas are Argentine”, referring to the Falkland Islands, at the end of the World Cup semifinal soccer match between England and Argentina in Atlanta, Wednesday, July 15, 2026.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) The White House has publicly defended the right of Argentina’s players to display the controversial Falklands banner following...

Spread the love       US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose additional tariffs on Canada, accusing Ottawa of failing to manage its forests and allowing wildfire smoke to blanket parts of the United States with what he called “filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air.“In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Canada would be held responsible for the worsening air...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: NEET-UG’s nationwide attendance fall acquired a regional pattern in 2026, with Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recording high absenteeism while Rajasthan expanded its candidate base and posted the strongest qualification rate among large states.Kerala had 1.14 lakh registrations, but only 84,664 candidates appeared, leaving 29,122 absent (25.6%). Tamil Nadu lost 33,893 of its 1.42 lakh...

Spread the love       File photo NEW DELHI: Women formed the majority of NEET-UG candidates and qualifiers again in 2026, but their representation thinned sharply at the very top, with only 30 women among the 138 candidates scoring 690 or more.Women accounted for 13.3 lakh of 22.8 lakh registrations, or 58.5%, and 6.5 lakh of 11.2 lakh candidates who qualified in...

Spread the love       Representative image NEW DELHI: Govt defended its high-speed rail cooperation with Japan, dismissing the statement of a former Japanese minister blaming India for the lack of progress in the ongoing work on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai ‘bullet train’ project.Describing the comments by former justice minister Hideki Makihara, who accused Indian authorities of not keeping their promises, as the opinion...

Spread the love       <img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-132472000,imgsize-265200,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/supreme-court.jpg" alt="No doctor would refuse treatment to brutally sexually assaulted child: Supreme Court” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday warned two Ghaziabad private hospitals and a doctor that if they failed to voluntarily pay compensation to parents of a grievously injured sexually assaulted girl, who died due to refusal of treatment, it will impose...

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from West Bengal and Election Commission to a PIL which alleged that the state govt was denying benefits of social welfare schemes, including ration, to people whose names were deleted from the voter list because of doubtful citizenship during special intensive revision (SIR).On a PIL by Prasenjit Bose, chairperson...