File photo of India’s Ravindra Jadeja with Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. (PTI Photo) New Delhi: The Indian men’s senior selection committee, chaired by Ajit Agarkar, will meet on May 19 to pick squads for the one-off Test and ODIs against Afghanistan, with the blueprint for the 2027 ODI World Cup also set to be…
Burmese pythons have already earned a reputation as one of Florida’s most destructive invasive species, wiping out populations of native mammals and disrupting ecosystems across the Everglades. But scientists have now uncovered another surprising way these giant snakes may be changing the landscape. New research suggests the reptiles are unintentionally transporting seeds after eating fruit-consuming…
Stock market recap: BSE Sensex, NSE Nifty50 ended previous session with modest gains Equity markets closed the previous session with only modest gains after a largely directionless session, highlighting the cautious approach investors were taking amid elevated geopolitical uncertainty and rising crude oil prices. BSE Sensex gained 43.27 points, or 0.06%, to settle at 78,542.44,…
A Florida restaurant has launched one of the country’s most unusual food promotions, offering customers a free ‘python pizza’ if they bring in an invasive Burmese python captured during the 2026 Florida Python Challenge. The giveaway, introduced by Wildman’s Pizza in Everglades City, is designed to support efforts to remove the destructive snakes from the…
NEW DELHI: The international legal architecture must be more democratic, inclusive and sensitive to the realities of the Global South, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said Friday. At the 60th anniversary of UNCITRAL, he said: “Today’s world is witnessing unprecedented geopolitical volatility, supply chain disruptions, rapid technological shifts. And these developments are affecting how goods,…
CJP alleges BJP ‘attacked’ them over buffalo shed school inspection; BJP MLA says “no use of cockroach inside a house.” NEW DELHI: The Cockroach Janta Party’s attempt to inspect a government school in Rajasthan triggered a political storm after party members alleged they were attacked while trying to visit a school they claimed had been…
Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal enjoy family dinner with Shatrughan Sinha, Poonam Sinha and Iqbal Ratansi (Image credits: Yogen Shah) Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal were recently spotted enjoying a family dinner in Mumbai, accompanied by Sonakshi‘s parents, veteran actor Shatrughan Sinha and Poonam Sinha, along with Zaheer’s father, Iqbal Ratansi. The family’s warm outing…
TOI correspondent from Washington: In the rapidly escalating global race to harness artificial intelligence for cyberwarfare and cyberdefense, India finds itself in an unusually exclusive club.Anthropic, the US artificial intelligence company behind Claude AI, this week expanded access to its highly restricted cybersecurity model, Mythos, to roughly 150 organizations across more than 15 countries, including…
The case centred on former FTC member Rebecca Slaughter, whom Trump dismissed despite a federal law requiring cause for her removal US President Donald Trump celebrated what he described as a “Historic and Unprecedented” victory after the US Supreme Court handed him a major win by upholding his authority to remove the heads of most…
Virat Kohli has ruled out any possibility of returning to Test cricket, joking during the launch of his new footwear line that he would rather undersell the product than make a comeback to add more runs to his Test tally.The former India captain, who retired from Test cricket last year after scoring 9,230 runs, was…