The TOI Correspondent from Washington: Set aside the skirmishes in the Strait of Hormuz for the moment. The Trump White House has officially opened a second war front, with salvoes against the Vatican in the midst of a war on Iran. The papacy isn’t holding back either. In a scorching smackdown of the MAGA ministry,…
. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth warned Iran that it faces a choice between accepting a deal or confronting continued blockade and potential military strikes, cautioning that failure to act could result in “bombs dropping on infrastructure and power and energy.”Speaking at a Pentagon briefing on Thursday, Hegseth said the blockade would remain in…
Union home minister Amit Shah NEW DELHI: The hum of anticipation and unease around the mammoth exercise of delimitation set the tone in the Lok Sabha during Parliament’s special session, as the debate over India’s representational future took centre stage. Leading the charge, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union home minister brought the issue…
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday delivered a sharp critique of the government in the Lok Sabha during a debate on the women’s reservation law and the delimitation bill, warning that the proposed changes represent an “open attack” on democracy.Participating in a debate on three bills related to…
A discreet complaint about a young employee’s behavioral changes at TCS Nashik BPO triggered a covert police investigation. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court advocate Ashwini Upadhyay on Thursday filed a plea seeking to declare forced religious conversions a “terrorist act.”The plea came in the backdrop of allegations of religious conversion and sexual harassment at Tata Consultancy…
Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun has reportedly declined to speak with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, a Lebanese official said. This follows after US president Donald Trump suggested the two leaders were set to hold historic talks.“We told America we aren’t ready to take that step,” an official was quoted as saying by CNN.Officials in Lebanon…
The generation that didn’t go viral, went interplanetary. While Gen Z was busy perfecting moon-tinted eyeshadow tutorials and debating which filter best captures “lunar chic,” four astronauts in their late 40s quietly did something far less Instagrammable — they went to the far side of the Moon and came back. Aged between 47 and 50,…
There are movies that become such cultural icons that they reverberate through the ages. Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction is one of them, leaving a cultural imprint so big that you can just quote the movie’s lines without context. And the most popular meme from that, which any fan can quote out of memory, is Ezekiel…
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared the Class 10th result on April 15, 2026. Board exams have, for decades, carried a similar kind of frenzied, sweaty-hands feeling. One can easily picture students with thumping hearts and constantly refreshing result pages. One of those students, Gunnika Khurana, stood as one of the toppers…
Europe has “maybe 6 weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said on Thursday, warning that flight cancellations could begin “soon” if oil supplies continue to be disrupted due to the Iran war, as cited by AP.Fatih Birol described the situation as “the largest energy crisis we have…