July 9, 2024, 8:01 AM IST
Written by: Dr AK Merchant We remember many outstanding people’s lives, services, and sacrifices every year. Among them is the prophet of the Bahá’i Faith, known as the Báb, which means the gate. During the…
July 9, 2024, 8:01 AM IST
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Law (Enforcement) Under Influence: that’s what tends to happen when rich/powerful drive drunk Weeks after the terrible Porsche accident in Pune, a BMW driven by an allegedly drunk son of a Shiv Sena senior has…
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
France recently had an important election. At first, it looked like a group with some unfair ideas about immigrants and minorities might win. This worried many people. But then something cool happened. Different political groups…
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
France’s dramatic election shows the virtues of coalition dharma when faced with threat to core democratic values French talk of French exceptionalism is food for many jokes around the world. But their dramatic parliamentary elections…
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Recently, there have been some bad car accidents in India. These accidents were caused by people from rich or powerful families who were driving expensive cars while drunk. This is really dangerous and has hurt…
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Every Indian male is Captain Underpants at heart Fashion may have begun with bark, foliage and animal skin as a simple matter of modesty and keeping warm, but is today a zillion-dollar industry with bling,…
July 9, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 8, 2024, 7:26 AM IST
When Modi and Putin sit for dinner in Putin’s Moscow dacha tonight, they will chew on a geopolitical and bilateral context that has changed dramatically since they broke roti together in Delhi in 2021. The…
July 8, 2024, 7:26 AM IST
July 8, 2024, 7:20 AM IST
By- KVS Rao The word ‘yog’ is derived from the Sanskrit root ‘yuj’, which means ‘to join’, ‘to yoke’, or ‘to unite’. There are two different ways to understand yog. On one hand, it is…
July 8, 2024, 7:20 AM IST
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
India has made its own light tank! This is exciting because: It’s made in India by smart scientists and engineers. It’s lighter than other tanks, so it can go to places high in the mountains…
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
As religious conservatives ebb in Iran, it’s not Iranian women alone who are taking hope Are presidential elections in Iran free and fair? Hardly. A stark tell is that instead of being selected by political…
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Iran just had an important election. The winner, Masoud Pezeshkian, wants to make some changes that could make life better for many people in Iran. What’s different? More freedom: Pezeshkian played a song at his…
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The defence tech body’s light tank is good news. But armoured units need much more In a much needed break, India’s indigenous light tank has completed the prototype development stage under Project Zorawar. Developed by…
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Today’s airlines wouldn’t be able to handle yesterday’s trunks People have matching luggage these days and it’s all so delicate and fashionable no wonder baggage handlers at airports have fun breaking it. And I was…
July 8, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
The shuttering of Koo, a microblogging website similar to Twitter (now X), has rekindled discussions about why India doesn’t have its own Google, Facebook, or WhatsApp, and whether a protectionist approach like China’s is necessary…
July 7, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 10:22 AM IST
Taylor Swift (34) has over 110mn monthly listeners on Spotify. Arijit Singh (37) has over 37mn. Rahul Dev (RD) Burman, who died in 1994 aged 54, has an impressive base of 9mn monthly listeners on…
July 6, 2024, 10:22 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 8:10 AM IST
Between farm and table, our food lives in refrigerators. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilleyis an investigation of this cold chain. It spans warehouses, trucks, shipping containers, display…
July 6, 2024, 8:10 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 8:00 AM IST
In the end, it was sunshine and showers in Britain, the morning after it acted on the advice of one of its leading tabloids and changed its “manager”. Despite Euro 2024, the reference was not…
July 6, 2024, 8:00 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 7:55 AM IST
-By Stuti Malhotra In the annals of recent memory, the spectacle of our beloved ‘boys in blue’ shedding tears has captured the collective heart of our nation. These tears, emanating from sheer joy and happiness,…
July 6, 2024, 7:55 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Why does India have so few fun parades? The sea of cheering cricket fans along Marine Drive, Mumbai tells us something about us: why are pure fun parades so few and far between in this…
July 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
How identity politics works across democracies Two years ago, when Rishi Sunak’s party elected him Britain’s first Asian-origin PM, the buzz was whether the country had entered a post-race era. Today, when voters have crashed…
July 6, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
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