2026 Candidates women champion Vaishali with her mother (FIDE Photo) The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has approved a new qualification system for the 2028 FIDE Candidates Tournament and the 2028 FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament. These events decide who will challenge for the World Championship titles. The updated rules are designed to make qualification fairer by…
The Norwegian proverb teaches us to differentiate between real and false urgency. Not everything has to be done now and choosing what those things are solves half of the problem. Rushing at everything only results in poor outcomes, and so it is necessary to take a pause and decide whether to rush or not. You…
New Delhi: Defence Research & Development Laboratory DRDL of DRDO on Saturday achieved a path-breaking milestone in the development of hypersonic missiles by successfully conducting an extensive long-duration test of its actively cooled full scale scramjet combustor.A run-time of over 1,200 seconds was achieved at the state-of-the-art scramjet connect pipe test (SCPT) facility in Hyderabad,…
Dev Raturi with staff members at his restaurant in China. Dehradun: Uttarakhand entrepreneur Dev Raturi, who has been living in China for 21 years and calls it “his second home”, told TOI from Xi’an on Friday that he has decided to send his wife and two sons back to India after “a wave of AI-generated…
BENGALURU: The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) Tuesday said it has deepened its partnership with American laboratory technology giant Agilent Technologies, giving a far wider range of Indian researchers access to some of the most sophisticated drug-testing equipment in the world, without having to buy it themselves.Think of it as a library, but…
37,164 killed on 6,358 ‘black corridors’ of NHs in 3 yrs: Road ministry NEW DELHI: Govt has identified 6,358 “black corridors” on NH network during 2023-25, which recorded 37,164 deaths, as per road transport ministry. The maximum such black corridors were in Tamil Nadu (958), followed by UP (671) and Karnataka (607). Among districts, Viluppuram…
Wipro on Thursday approved a Rs 15,000 crore share buyback, its largest so far, even as the IT major’s offer remains smaller than recent repurchases by peers Infosys and TCS, PTI reported.The company’s latest buyback surpasses its Rs 12,000 crore programme in 2023, but trails Infosys’ Rs 18,000 crore offer –the largest by any Indian…
Virudhunagar, the district headquarters, has in recent years emerged as a stronghold for the DMK. In the 2021 Assembly elections, DMK’s A. R. R. Seenivasan won with 73,297 votes, defeating BJP’s G. Pandurangan by a margin of 21,339 votes. In the 2016 Assembly elections, A. R. R. Seenivasan of the DMK won with 65,499 votes,…
(Image Credits: Instagram) Jasmine Sandlas, the revered ‘Dhurandhar’ singer who stole the spotlight with her striking vocals, stunned her fans at the Delhi concert recently after introducing an endearing surprise. During the 40-year-old singer’s debut night of ‘The Dream Girl India Tour,’ she revealed ‘her man’ and displayed the sparkling diamond on her hand. Many…
Michigan health department issued advisory to thoroughly wash greens and remove the outer layer of lettuce in the wake of the virus outbreak. More than half US states have reported an outbreak of Cyclosporiasis, an infection caused by a microscopic parasite that is leading to explosive diarrhoea. Michigan is the worst affected, as the state…