‘Purab mat jaiyo more Rajaji …’Passed down through generations, this folk song still echoes the reality of many villages in Bihar, where the men are forced to leave in search of greener pastures.Migration has long been woven into Bihar’s social and cultural landscape. But long-standing gaps in local employment, combined with rising aspirations, have increased…
Delhi high court upholds Telegram ban ahead of NEET re-test NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Friday rejected Russian messaging platform Telegram’s plea challenging the Centre’s decision to temporarily block access to the app ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination.Dismissing the petition, Justice Tejas Karia upheld the government’s order issued under Section 69A of…
US President Donald Trump Donald Trump has said that he has been “watching” data centers “very closely” and reached a conclusion that “If companies want to make their Data Centers popular, pay the community, and/or individuals within the community, a “dividend”.” Sharing a post on Truth Social, President Trump said that he has mandated data…
Microsoft has spent three years telling the world to use more AI. This week it told its own engineers to use it more carefully. In an internal email to his CoreAI organisation, executive vice president Jay Parikh wrote that “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for” — and backed the line with policy. OpenAI’s…
Eight students from Pune tragically drowned at Diveagar beach in Maharashtra during a school picnic (Photo credit: X) PUNE: As many as eight students from Pune drowned at Diveagar beach in Maharashtra’s Raigad district while on a school picnic, police said.All eight bodies have been recovered, news agency PTI reported.The students were part of a…
CHENNAI: BJP president Nitin Nabin on Friday accepted the resignation of former party chief K Annamalai from the primary membership of the party.Annamalai is expected to outline his future course of action during a social media interaction at noon, intensifying buzz that he may launch a new political outfit. Taking to social media, Annamalai wrote,…
PC: Society for Science/ Image AI generated Andrew Sun-Zhuang, a 7th grader at The Evergreen School in Shoreline, Washington, plays baseball and is constantly trying to improve his batting performance. His hit rate is 95 per cent against a batting machine but only 35 per cent in real life. According to the Society for Science,…
NEW DELHI: Thousands of postgraduate medical aspirants appearing for the May 2026 Institute of National Importance Combined Entrance Test (INI-CET) have flagged delayed admit card access and allotment of exam centres hundreds of kilometres away, barely a week before the May 16 examination.The AIIMS Delhi-conducted exam released admit cards around 3 pm on May 9,…
Naomi Osaka of Japan (AP Photo) LONDON: Court No. 2 sits at one end of the All England Club, a few hundred metres from the players’ facilities. For Naomi Osaka, that simply meant a longer runway. The four-time Grand Slam champion arrived on Wednesday in a downsized kimono-inspired look, accessorised with an obi that trailed…
Northeast Frontier Railway marks historic first with direct Container Freight Train to Nepal NEW DELHI: In a new chapter for India-Nepal rail connectivity, the first-ever direct commercial container freight train – carrying canola oil in 40 tank wagons – completed its journey from Kolkata Port to Biratnagar Customs Yard in Nepal last week.In a statement,…