Spread the love For years, the path has been established – study in the US, get a job there, and eventually vie for a green card. (AI image) US President Donald Trump has time and again said that he ‘loves’ Indian talent – but he doesn’t seem to want it in America – or so his policies suggest. Indians’ big...
‘You’ll be criticised for captaincy as well’: Gavaskar’s candid verdict on Gill
Spread the love India’s captain Shubman Gill (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Shubman Gill‘s remarkable purple patch continued on Wednesday as the India captain produced another batting masterclass, prompting high praise from Sunil Gavaskar after India’s emphatic ODI series-clinching victory over Afghanistan in Lucknow.Gill has enjoyed a stunning run of form over the past three weeks, piling up runs across formats and...
US-Iran ink MoU, real test begins now: A defiant Israel can still derail peace efforts
Spread the love Trump has urged Israel to temper its campaign, but without Israeli buy‑in the deal risks becoming a fragile pause rather than a genuine peace. The long‑anticipated memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed electronically by US President Donald Trump and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian this week aims to halt a costly war and reopen vital sea lanes, but analysts warn...
White House to Anthropic: Do this if you want to release Fable 5 model outside US
Spread the love Days after restricting its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models for non-Americans, the Trump administration has reportedly issued a clear ultimatum to Anthropic: if the company wants the government to lift the strict controls placed on its most advanced AI models, it must stop arguing and start fixing the software’s security flaws. According to a report...

As Vijay’s suit and lunchbox trends, Udhayanidhi Stalin says everything’s ‘reels with him’
Spread the love 2 min readHyderabadJun 18, 2026 06:12 PM IST A month into Tamil Nadu’s first non-Dravidian government in over five decades, the conversation around Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay’s administration is still dominated by his wardrobe and his lunchbox rather than his policies. Hashtags have been trending on X over posts about the cost of his suit and...

Rejected by college theatre group, Arvind Swamy quit stardom to set up Rs 3300 cr empire
Spread the love 4 min readHyderabadJun 18, 2026 06:08 PM IST Before Roja, before Bombay, before he became one of the most recognisable faces in Tamil cinema, Arvind Swamy was a student who couldn’t get a college theatre group to take him seriously, and modelled on the side just to make some extra money. The actor, who turned 56 on...
Challenge to India: Pak mulls naval presence in Bay of Bengal since 1971
Spread the love Built in China and equipped with Air‑Independent Propulsion (AIP), the Hangor gives Pakistan a stealthier, longer‑endurance conventional submarine capability. For the first time since the 1971 war, Pakistan has signalled that it is looking to have a sustained naval presence in the Bay of Bengal with PNS Hangor, a technologically advanced submarine that analysts say will allow...
Why engineers in Meta’s AI unit, built for it’s key employee, are calling it a ‘mess’
Spread the love Meta’s new Applied AI unit, built to power Mark Zuckerberg’s $14.3 billion bet on chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, is in open revolt. The 6,500 engineers drafted into the months-old team call the work “soul-crushing” and a “gulag,” with one hijacking a company livestream to insult an executive. Amid 8,000 layoffs and a worker-surveillance backlash, even CTO...
Birthday celebration ruined; restaurant ordered to pay Rs 50,000 compensation
Spread the love AI generated image NEW DELHI: The district consumer commission, Thiruvananthapuram, has directed a restaurant to pay Rs 50,000 to a customer after his daughter’s first birthday party was allegedly ruined by poor service and stale food, holding the restaurant’s manager and managing director jointly liable for deficiency in service.What was the issueComplainant Prathap Wilson approached a restaurant...
TMC implosion, NCP split and Congress question: Why ‘ghar wapsi’ may not be the answer
Spread the love Has the time come for Congress’s breakaway parties to return to the fold? NEW DELHI: Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress is not merging with the Congress. That’s final for now. Both the parties have firmly rejected speculations about a merger, dismissing them as “baseless rumours” and “fake news”. But not before the speculations triggered a larger and far...
