China’s Fujian aircraft carrier is out at sea. (image credit: Chinese Defense Ministry) China has been on a shipbuilding spree, rolling out aircraft carriers at a pace that has alarmed capitals from New Delhi to Tokyo to Canberra. But for all the steel and swagger on display, Beijing’s prized flat-tops, as aircraft carriers are known,…
Hello and welcome to our new daily World Cup column: OFFSIDE.Whenever there is a World Cup, we usually get two headline ads from Nike and Adidas, who between them sponsor 26 of the 48 teams. Adidas’ ad was called Backyard Legends, headlined by Timothée Chalamet, where he is putting together a team to beat a…
As NEET UG 2026 re-examination preparations enter the final stretch, the National Testing Agency has introduced a verified WhatsApp channel to communicate directly with candidates. The agency has also issued a strong advisory against fake messages, cyber scams and misleading claims, urging aspirants to trust only authenticated sources for exam-related information. The National Testing Agency…
Space is often called the final frontier, and India is taking decisive steps to establish a strong presence there. Its primarily civilian space programme is now expanding to build a robust military space architecture. The government has sanctioned a 52‑satellite constellation under the Space Based Surveillance Phase III initiative, to be rolled out from 2025…
A six-year-old child drowned in an abandoned pit filled with water in Greater Noida GREATER NOIDA: A six-year-old boy died after accidentally falling into a water-filled pit dug for boring work inside a residential colony in Greater Noida, police said on Sunday.The incident took place on Saturday evening in Kaladham Colony, where the child was…
‘Alpha’, starring Alia Bhatt and Sharvari in lead roles, picked up the pace at the box office and saw good growth in numbers on Tuesday. The film, which completed its fifth day in cinemas, benefited from strategic ticket prices across major cinema chains.The film, which also marked the first female-led spy action film in the…
Congress leader, Vijay Wadettiwar, questions NCERT for removing ‘secular’ and ‘secularism’ NEW DELHI: Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar has accused the government of trying to “poison the minds of school-going children” after NCERT’s revised Class 9 Social Science textbook removed references to “secular” and “secularism” from the main text under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020…
For generations, prairie dogs were often treated as a problem rather than an ecological asset. Their burrows were blamed for competing with livestock, while their colonies were targeted through shooting and poisoning across large parts of their former range.But removing them had consequences far larger than the disappearance of one small mammal. Scientists studying black-tailed…
VISAKHAPATNAM: A day after India and the US completed another round of negotiations, commerce & industry minister Piyush Goyal said Friday that the two countries are moving towards finalising the interim trade agreement and are expected to execute the first tranche of the trade deal by mid-July.“I also met with them yesterday, and we are…
US president Trump, Iran’s president Pezeshkian (File photos) The TOI correspondent from Washington: The US-Iran standoff in the Hormuz Strait remains unresolved 72-hours before the end of a two-week ceasefire after Tehran, angered by US president Donald Trump’s social media grandstanding portraying it as having caved in completely to his demands including surrendering its uranium…