This one tops the list for a reason. It’s vague enough to mean literally anything, a five-minute scheduling question or a serious performance conversation, and that ambiguity is exactly what makes it unsettling. Career advice writers have noted that managers rarely realise how much anxiety a bare “can we talk” triggers, since it strips away…
The Christmas season is around the corner, and the must-have Christmas tree often ends up on the curb once the holidays are over, needles trailing down the driveway. They rarely get a second act. In 2024, more than 160 of them got a second act. None of them were headed for a living room, but…
India’s Anahat Singh (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: India added another squash medal to their impressive Asian Games 2026 haul as the women’s team settled for bronze after a hard-fought 1-2 semifinal defeat to Hong Kong on Thursday.The result took India’s squash medal tally at the Aichi-Nagoya Games to four, with Anahat Singh and Abhay Singh…
A six-month trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations cost British Transport Police (BTP) £320,786 and scanned more than 500,000 faces, but it produced just one alert from the police watchlist. That alert turned out to be a false identification, with no arrest resulting directly from the technology during the trial period. The…
Police said no complaint has been received in connection with the incident so far. LUCKNOW: A CCTV video showing a man allegedly stealing a plant and loading it into a WagonR bearing a “POLICE” sticker on the Delhi-Dehradun Expressway in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat has gone viral on social media.The footage purportedly shows the person removing…
Rahul Gandhi asks who authorised Form 6 changes, whether TCS was pressured NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has questioned who authorised changes to the online Form 6 for voter registration and whether Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was pressured to implement them.“The online Form 6 was changed illegally…
AI-generated image for representation An Indian investment professional’s conversation with a retired Swiss corporate lawyer in Vietnam has sparked a discussion around how differently working hours, holidays and leisure can be viewed across countries.The conversation started when an Indian investment professional, Manuraaj Garg, was travelling in Vietnam with his wife. There, the couple met an…
NEW DELHI: When Kynan Chenai arrived at the Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Gallery in Aichi-Nagoya for the Asian Games 2026 trap mixed team final, the gun in his hands was not his regular weapon.It was a 30-year-old gun borrowed from his father, Darius Chenai.Darius, a two-time national trap champion, had used the same barrel to…
Yasin Malik allegedly received foreign funds totalling Rs. 30,75,595 as alleged proceeds of crime (File photo) NEW DELHI: A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court has directed that charges be framed against separatist Yasin Malik and six other accused under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) for allegedly receiving foreign funding from the Pakistani…
TVs, washing machines, ACs and other consumer electronic prices may go up this October Air-conditioners, LED TVs, washing machines and other consumer appliances may become more expensive this October, with several companies planning price hikes of around 5-8 per cent, according to a PTI report. The increases come just before the festive shopping season and…
