File photo (Picture credit: AP) Asian markets traded higher on Friday as investor sentiment improved on hopes of progress in US-Iran peace talks, although rising oil prices and continued uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz kept inflation concerns in focus.Tokyo led regional gains, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 surging more than 2 per cent. Taiwan’s market…
IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Sunday said it has a “long-standing zero-tolerance policy towards harassment and coercion of any form” NEW DELHI/NASHIK: IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Sunday said it has a “long-standing zero-tolerance policy towards harassment and coercion of any form”, confirming that employees accused in a sexual harassment case…
Quote of the day by Michelle Obama Some quotes become popular for a few weeks and then quietly disappear. Others somehow stay around for years because people keep finding new situations where the words still fit. Michelle Obama’s famous line about “going high” feels like one of those quotes that refuses to fade away. Even…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday requested former SC judge Justice Kurian Joseph to secure a permanent truce between IAS officer Rohini Sindhuri and IPS officer Roopa Moudgil, both of Karnataka cadre, who have been engaged in a bitter cross-defamation litigation after an ugly public spat three years ago.Observing that the officers were “destroying their own…
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice Surya Kant Saturday said he ‘was pained’ by a section of media misquoting his comments on youth during courtroom proceedings on Friday and clarified that his angst was against those joining the legal profession with bogus degrees and behaving like parasites.In a statement, CJI Kant said, “What I had specifically criticised…
“Our daughter is not a defective toy”: They were told to ‘replace’ her and what her parents did will remain an example forever There’s a powerful saying in Hindi: “Paida karne wale se bada palne wala hota hai.” In simple words, it takes far more to raise a child than it does to give birth…
A manhunt is under way in Florida after deputies said a man trying to stop a dog attack accidentally shot and killed the animal’s owner, sparking a large police search and school lockdowns.43-year-old Matthew Lee Pasco fled the scene on foot after the shooting on Friday in Leesburg, in Lake County. Authorities say the incident…
David Lammy (L) and JD Vance (R) UK deputy prime minister David Lammy says he called US Vice-President JD Vance to tell him he was “wrong” for linking the murder of British teenager Henry Nowak by Sikh man Vickrum Digwa to “mass migration”, saying the case had “nothing to do” with immigration.Speaking to British broadcasters…
Bill Gates spent roughly $80 million securing two of the most exclusive superyacht berths on the French Riviera for a futuristic hydrogen-powered yacht project that was meant to redefine luxury sailing. The berths at Port Vauban’s famed Billionaires’ Quay were custom-configured to accommodate Breakthrough, the world’s first hydrogen-powered superyacht, and its support vessel Wayfinder. Yet…
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Wednesday urged the Union govt to scrap NEET-based admissions and allow states to fill MBBS, BDS and AYUSH seats under the state quota based on Class 12 marks after the Centre cancelled NEET-UG 2026 following allegations of question paper leak.Vijay said the cancellation of the May…