Chinese proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) Some proverbs make perfect sense the moment they are heard. Others need a little unpacking.“A woman three years older is like holding a golden brick.”At first glance, it sounds unusual. Modern readers might wonder why a few years of age would be compared to something…
NEW DELHI: The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday denied that there was any proposal or discussion about the Mamata Banerjee led party merging with the Congress at a meeting between leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday.The meeting between Rahul and Abhishek at 10, Janpath came a day after…
TOI Correspondent from London: The UK police are providing security to former Bombay high court judge Gautam Patel and his family in London after they have faced threats and attacks.The daughter of Patel, a British citizen, received a death threat letter at her London home on June 5, just weeks after a physical assault. On…
TOI Correspondent from London: A year after limping out shell-shocked from the burning wreckage of the Air India Dreamliner (AI 171), the crash’s sole survivor, Viswashkumar Ramesh, is still struggling with physical pain, bereavement, financial difficulties and psychological problems.After the crash, Viswashkumar (39) had returned to the UK on Sept 15 to be with his…
TOI Correspondent from London: Dozens of Hindus from Peterborough travelled to London for a landmark high court hearing on Wednesday in which a Hindu temple in Peterborough is bringing a judicial review challenging the city council over its decision to sell the site the temple is located on to a local mosque.A court overflow room…
The government condemned a US attack on a commercial vessel off the coast of Oman on Wednesday that left 3 Indian crew members missing, while also officially lodging a protest with the US embassy here. There were 24 Indian seafarers onboard the Palau-flagged Settebello, which was struck by precision munitions while transiting the Gulf of…
SRINAGAR: Hurriyat Conference chairman and Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Wednesday described the situation in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK), where more than 20 people have been killed in clashes between police and protesters, as “deeply disturbing”, and urged the authorities there to show restraint.2 soldiers killed in ‘accidental blast’ near LoC in Uri2 soldiers…
A Perth-based comedian has claimed he was banned from almost every venue in Western Australia for 12 months following an incident he says he still does not fully understand.Jasky Singh said the statewide restriction was imposed after an incident at The Gold Bar in Kalgoorlie, in the state’s Goldfields–Esperance region, in November. The ban applies…
SRINAGAR: Two soldiers attached to a unit deployed in J&K’s Uri sector, close to the LoC and about 100km north of Srinagar, were fatally wounded Tuesday afternoon in what the Army described as “an accidental blast”.Arjun Jadhav and Vikram Balakrishna, both from Maharashtra, were taken to the Army’s 92 Base Hospital in Srinagar but couldn’t…
Spanish proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) Some sayings feel less like advice and more like leftover fragments from a different social order. This Spanish proverb is one of those.“The more a woman admires her visage, the more she ruins her house.”It has a bluntness to it that stands out immediately. The…