NEW DELHI: India is estimated to have produced a record 376 million tonnes (MT) of foodgrains in 2025-26 crop year, which is 5.3% higher than the 357 MT reported in the previous year, said agriculture ministry while releasing latest estimates of crop production on Wednesday.For 2026-27 crop year, ministry has been gearing up to minimise…
When the AI startup Factory had just 30 employees, chief executive Matan Grinberg made an unusual investment in his workforce. Instead of spending on flashy office perks, he bought a $3,000 Eight Sleep mattress cover for every employee. Grinberg said better rest translates into better performance and compared engineers to professional athletes who need proper…
Lucknow Super Giants (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Since entering the fray in the Indian Premier League (IPL), Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) have always shown promise heading into the new campaign.But as a campaign would grow old, that said promise would evaporate in the thin air. And the 2026 season offered no exception. Last week, the…
RAIPUR: Amid Union home minister Amit Shah’s visit to Chhattisgarh, mobile phone of a senior BJP leader and former Assembly Speaker Dharamlal Kaushik was allegedly snatched by bike-borne miscreants during a morning walk in Raipur on Monday, sparking a fresh political row over law and order in the state capital. However, the police nabbed the…
Govt Thursday announced a steep increase in passport fees across categories, including a 67% hike for issuance or reissue of ordinary passport and a 250% increase in charges under the Tatkal scheme. The new charges will be effective July 1. MEA said an ordinary 36-page fresh passport for applicants aged 18 years and above will…
The alleged murder case of two Bangladeshi students in the US took a grisly turn after Nahida Sultana Bristy’s body was found and the investigators gave minute details of how they cracked the case of the mysterious disappearance of two students from the campus of the University of South Florida. Bristy’s body was found days…
Rohit Chakravarty led a bat walk at Sunder Nursery on April 17 to mark International Bat Appreciation Day and launch Delhi-NCR’s first bat field guide Nobody grows up wanting to be a bat person. Unless your parents fell in love over dead ones. For Aditya Srinivasulu, bats were never mysterious creatures of the night. They…
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has said Trump will join him in handing the World Cup trophy to the winners after Sunday’s final The White House on Thursday confirmed that US President Donald Trump will attend Sunday’s FIFA World Cup final between Argentina and Spain at the New York-New Jersey Stadium, where he is expected to…
(Disclaimer: This is image is generated using AI) Two days before opening arguments, Elon Musk pulled out his phone and threatened OpenAI’s president by text. Greg Brockman had floated the idea of a peace deal—both sides drop everything, walk away. Musk’s reply, now sitting in the trial record: “By the end of this week, you…
It’s another conflict.Another day, another bomb. Another headline flashes – children dying, buildings reduced to rubble, sirens echoing through cities somewhere in the world. The images are stark, the urgency real. Yet, somewhere between these moments of devastation, we find ourselves scrolling through reels, liking posts, debating movie reviews, moving from one world to another…