One of the most important Hindu festivals, Diwali is observed nationwide with great pomp and show. People enjoy the occasion by decorating their homes, streets and with their loved ones. Diwali is the festival festival of lights that is celebrated on Amavasya Tithi during the month of Kartik. This year, Diwali will be celebrated on…
By invitationThe fear of machines taking away jobs is all too familiar. It first created panic when the Industrial Revolution hit. Then came the digital age. But the rapid evolution of AI poses the possibility of job losses on a scale and form not seen before. That’s why India must revamp how it educates and…
In India, the M(usic) had gone out of MTV long ago. Now, the channel is shuttering its music channels in Europe. But its VJs, who had made TV cool, have banded together and are now making everyday life look cool, one reel at a timePolitical revolutions happen on the streets, often marked by violence and…
India is mainly paying in roubles for Russian oil, but has started payments in the Chinese currency yuan, Russia’s deputy PM Alexander Novak said on Wednesday. “I am aware that such payments have started. I believe the percentage is small at present because payments are largely made in roubles,” Novak was quoted as saying by…
Actor Pankaj Dheer, whose impressive turn as the wronged prince Karna in the television epic, ‘Mahabharat’ (1988), embedded him in a generation’s memory, passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday. He was 68. Dheer was suffering from cancer. “He had been in and out of hospital in the past months,” producer and friend Ashoke Pandit told…
New Delhi: Months ahead of the March 31, 2026 deadline to fully eliminate armed Naxalism from the country, the Centre declared that the total number of Left-wing extremism-hit districts have fallen to just 11 from 18 in March 2025 and 126 in 2013, with the “most-affected districts” also down to three from six in the…
Gaya: It was a usual sombre scene at Gaya’s Mukti dham crematorium on Monday.A funeral procession reached Mukti dham with a music band amid the chants of “Ram naam satya hai”. Relatives and friends of 74-year-old Mohan Lal, who had retired from Indian Air Force (IAF), reached Mukti dham carrying his bamboo ‘arthi’, decorated with…
Karthik Srinivasan2011: Discomfort in the chest. Angiogram. No blocks. All clear.2025: Discomfort in the chest while running at a higher speed. Angiogram. Two blocks. Angioplasty. Two stents.One question that has haunted me after the angioplasty is, ‘Why me?’ I have been running 5 kms regularly (almost 290-300 days every year). I sleep predictably early and…
A seven-year-old boy, Kevin, tragically died when a car’s airbag deployed after a collision near Thiruporur CHENNAI: A seven-year-old boy riding shotgun on his father’s lap was killed when the airbag opened after the car rammed a vehicle in front that had braked suddenly near Thiruporur on Monday night. Police identified the child as Kevin,…
NEW DELHI: Three years ago in Manipur, a Kuki woman and a Meitei man fell in love and decided to build a life together in Delhi. They settled in Munirka. She worked as a beautician, and he ran a small grocery store. However, a year-and-a-half later, their bliss gave way to frequent quarrels over domestic…
