NEW DELHI: As Congress rethinks its organisational leadership in poll-bound Punjab, Rahul Gandhi Sunday met five key state functionaries ahead of a decision on a reshuffle.Leader of the opposition Partap Singh Bajwa, state chief Amarinder Raja Warring, ex-CM Charanjit Singh Channi, Sukhjinder Randhawa and Vijay Inder Singla met Rahul at 10, Janpath. Sources said Rahul…
California is America’s ultimate road trip destination! It is also the third-largest U.S. state by area and its diversity is unimaginable. From snow-covered mountains to deserts and vineyards to redwood forests, the state has them all. And how can we not mention over 1,300 km of Pacific coastline, simply stunning! The state attracts travellers with…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Historians may someday conclude that US President Donald Trump‘s greatest contribution to American political discourse was not immigration enforcement or peace treaty, or even a trade war. It may have been a painstaking seminar on how he coined the word “Dumocrats.“In several interviews and speeches over the past week, Trump has…
Pranit More is an Indian stand-up comedian, YouTube creator, radio personality, and television figure who has returned to public attention after a viral clip from one of his shows sparked debate online. Best known for his observational humor and his stint on ‘Bigg Boss 19‘, More has built his career through live comedy, digital videos,…
KOLKATA: For 50-year-old Benji, the anguish of disenfranchisement has brought with it the heartbreak of being orphaned again.An orphan from Kerala, his home for the past 27 years has been his employer’s family in Beleghata. But the Election Commission’s diktat has severed his ‘formal’ link with octogenarian Padmarani Baral, who he considers his mother. During…
A scroll so badly charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that scholars once gave it a readability score of zero has now been read—virtually unwrapped end to end, without a single layer being touched. Researchers from the University of Kentucky and Naples announced the breakthrough Thursday at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples, with the…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday extended its support to actor-turned-politician Vijay’s TVK after emerged as the single largest party in the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, but failed to cross the majority mark.In a letter, the party which won 5 seats in the 243-membered assembly, said that its support will be conditional upon the TVK keeping…
NEW DELHI: In an important clarification to its two-year-old judgement against ‘bulldozer justice’, Supreme Court said its ruling does not bar use of bulldozers to remove rampant illegal constructions and encroachments on public land following compliance with the procedure laid down in municipal laws.Refusing to adjudicate individual contempt petitions alleging demolition of houses, mosques and…
SQUADS: KKR: Ajinkya Rahane (c), Rinku Singh, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Rahul Tripathi, Finn Allen, Tejasvi Singh, Tim Seifert, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Cameron Green, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Navdeep Saini, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik, Matheesha Pathirana, Kartik Tyagi, Varun Chakaravarthy and Prashant Solanki, DC: Axar Patel (c), KL Rahul, Pathum Nissanka, David…
Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has given over $26,300,000,000 to charity, Elon Musk responds Tech tycoon Elon Musk has stirred a row after saying record-breaking, multi-billion-dollar philanthropic campaign of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos‘ ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott is harming society instead of doing charity.The contoversey erupted following reports that MacKenzie Scott has now distributed more than…