‘Challenge To Ensure Inclusive Participation’ NEW DELHI: India’s digital revolution has succeeded in putting mobile phones in nearly every household, but it has fallen short of delivering meaningful digital inclusion. A report has found that while 95.1% of households own a mobile device and 74.8% have access to a smartphone or internet-enabled phone, only 39.7%…
KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress lurched towards its biggest rupture in 28 years Monday after rebel MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar claimed support of 20 MPs and wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking recognition as a separate parliamentary bloc that would back BJP-led NDA.If the numbers hold, rebels would clear the two-thirds threshold needed to…
US President Donald Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “be careful” and pressed him to halt a major retaliatory operation against Iran after the latter launched a first strike at the former since April’s fragile ceasefire. The call helped avert what Israeli and US officials said could have been the largest wave of…
Cricket great Kapil Dev has called for patience with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi after the 15-year-old earned his first India call-up, saying it would be unfair to place heavy expectations on him so early in his career.Sooryavanshi recently became the youngest player selected for India’s senior men’s team, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar‘s long-standing record. He has been named…
A 32,000-year-old frozen cave lion cub, nicknamed ‘Sparta,’ has revealed that cave lions are a distinct lineage that evolved independently for over 1.5 million years. Analysis of ancient DNA shows unique biological features and suggests interbreeding with modern lions during colder periods when their ranges overlapped. Pulling out a frozen organism from the ice after…
NEW DELHI: In what could further strain the already tense Congress-CPM equation, ED has intensified its probe into the money laundering allegations against the daughter of former Marxist CM of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan.Boosted by a Kerala high court order that money laundering investigations against Vijayan’s daughter Veena are not dependent upon registration of a criminal…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court was extremely disappointed on Monday to find that a man — arrested as a 28-year-old in Nov 1983 for shooting dead a person — waited for more than four decades in the Allahabad high court for a decision on his appeal against conviction and a life term awarded by a…
CHENNAI/NEW DELHI: INDIA bloc allies, VCK and the Left parties, on Monday criticised Congress over its alliance strategy in the recent assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal. DMK sources told TOI the party would join the INDIA bloc only if Congress is not part of it. “We will not be a signatory…
NEW DELHI: Mocking INDIA bloc’s allegation of “vote-chori” through SIR, the BJP on Monday accused the opposition of hypocrisy as it pointed to poll results in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, two of the states where electoral rolls were revised, and said Congress has no problem with them as they went against the governing party.“In reality,…
“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.”— William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116Written over four centuries ago, these lines remain arguably the most brutal and beautiful definition of commitment ever put to paper. Shakespeare was calling out a relationship dynamic that we still deeply struggle with today:…