How Bihar’s poll defeat has shaken the Lalu Yadav family (Credits: Times Content) PATNA: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) was still reeling from its crushing electoral defeat when an even more disruptive shockwave tore through Bihar’s most powerful political dynasty. Rohini Acharya once celebrated as the embodiment of the Yadav family’s loyalty and sacrifice, who…
NEW DELHI: Russia and India are working on the mutual deployment of ground stations for their navigation satellite systems, GLONASS and NavIC for enhanced accuracy, a senior Russian diplomat said.“Work is underway on the mutual parity placement of ground stations for collecting measurements of the Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS and the Indian regional…
The United States finally released its long-awaited September employment data after a seven-week delay caused by the federal government shutdown, showing that employers added 119,000 jobs, more than twice what economists had expected. Though the figure offered a bright headline after weeks of uncertainty, the underlying numbers painted an uneven picture of the job market.Revisions…
Authorities intensified searches across hospitals and media offices in Jammu and Kashmir, probing links between medical staff, extremist modules, and fugitive operatives following the Delhi blast. Recoveries of arms and explosives from a “white-collar” terror module have fueled the investigation, with a media house also raided for alleged anti-national content. NEW DELHI: Authorities in Jammu…
Smriti Mandhana and teammates in a video posted on her Instagram (Screengrabs) Indian opener and World Cup winner Smriti Mandhana has made her engagement official, confirming weeks of speculation with a light-hearted Instagram reel. The video, filmed with her India teammates Jemimah Rodrigues, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil and Arundhati Reddy, quickly took over social media…
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting was recently asked to pick his best no. 4 batter in Test cricket ahead of the Ashes series beginning Friday.At first, given the choice to pick between Kevin Pietersen and Mahela Jayawardene, Ponting picked Pietersen. Then Ponting chose Kevin Pietersen (KP) over Mark Waugh, and then Pakistan’s former cricketer Javed…
TOI correspondent from London: British Indians are part of the wealth flight from Britain due to rising taxes, poor public services and concerns about further taxes in the autumn budget.India-born Herman Narula, co-founder of £2.5 billion tech company Improbable, is among the latest to abandon Britain for Dubai. He told the Daily Telegraph that he…
US markets traded in green on Thursday as investors welcomed fresh signs that pressure on Wall Street may be easing, with Nvidia’s latest earnings and renewed hopes of another interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Dow jumped 662 points or 1.44% to 46,801. Nasdaq also rose to 23,134 up, 569 points or 2.5% at…
NEW DELHI: Pitching for expanding a unique model where bilateral cooperation can reinforce multilateral objectives, India has called an existing ‘joint crediting mechanism’ a key tool for global climate action, and urged countries to join this cooperative approach to collectively reduce their carbon footprints.The benefit of the mechanism was flagged by Union environment minister Bhupender…
Russia has moved to expand its maritime ties with India, putting forward fresh proposals in shipbuilding as the two countries look to expand cooperation across the Indo-Pacific and the wider Indian Ocean Region. The new push came during consultations in New Delhi on Monday between Nikolai Patrushev, a close aide of Russian President Vladimir Putin…
