Angelina Jolie has rarely been far from the headlines. Whether it is her Academy Award-winning performances, her decades of humanitarian work or the long and turbulent legal battle with her former husband Brad Pitt that has played out in courtrooms and tabloids alike, she remains one of the most watched and discussed figures in global…
What started as a joke at a stand-up comedy show has now cost a young man his job and sparked a much larger conversation online about dating, entitlement, accountability and second chances.Himanshu Jangra, the Gurugram-based web developer who recently went viral after making controversial comments during comedian Pranit More’s show, has been fired by his…
Subhi Gupta (Special Arrangements) NEW DELHI: Imagine it is your first international chess tournament on your own. Your parents have burned a hole in their pockets to take you to the scenic country of Uzbekistan. There, you are supposed to play the toughest of opponents from across the globe. You reach the venue, and you…
“Even a hut feels like paradise when you’re with your loved one.”— Russian ProverbThere is an old Russian saying (С милым рай и в шалаше) that cuts straight through centuries of human history with a blunt, undeniable truth. It completely ignores grand gestures, real estate flexes, and luxury lifestyles. Instead, it drops a simple reality…
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Raising concerns over recurring electrical accidents, fires and electrocutions across the country, former power sector regulator D Radhakrishna has urged the Centre to introduce sweeping electrical safety reforms, arguing that stronger oversight is essential to protect consumers and prevent avoidable tragedies.In a letter dated June 9 to NITI Aayog member Prof Abhay Karandikar,…
The deceased were identified as Prabhakar (Right), his wife Jyothi (Left) and their son Santosh (Middle). MANDYA: 65-year-old garment trader in Karnataka‘s Mandya district allegedly killed his wife and son before ending his own life, leaving behind a purported suicide note pointing to mounting debts, loan repayment pressure and business losses that he linked to…
Narendra Modi is now India’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister. ‘Modi hai to Mumkin hai’, a popular catchphrase that has become synonymous with the BJP-led NDA government over the years. Indeed, this idea of “achieving the impossible” has often been projected as a hallmark of Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s 12-year-long tenure at the helm. But even…
Every year, the world generates hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste, and the vast majority of it ends up in places where it is not useful. A landmark 2025 study published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, which conducted a global trade-linked material flow analysis of plastics for 2022, found that the global…
NEW DELHI: In another setback for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee, party MP Sushmita Dev has resigned from the Rajya Sabha, PTI reported citing sources.This comes shortly after the TMC MP met Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, triggering speculation about her joining BJP.In her resignation letter, Dev wrote, “I do hereby resign…
Anthropic has released a public version of its powerful Mythos-class artificial intelligence model, making the technology available to a much wider audience for the first time. The new model, called Claude Fable 5, is based on the same core architecture as Claude Mythos 5, an AI system that previously drew attention from governments, cybersecurity experts…