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Winters and monsoons are bad times for drying laundry. There’s no sun for days and it’s mostly dewy or rainy all the time. So people generally end up putting laundry indoors to dry. However, unknowingly, they are making a huge mistake. Who would have thought that a simple and easy task could possess such health…
Vishal Bhardwaj helmed ‘O’Romeo’ is a gritty revenge romance drama, 1980s underworld saga. Reportedly, it is a revival of the shelved ‘Sapna Didi’ biopic that was to feature Deepika Padukone and the late Irrfan Khan. Starring Shahid Kapoor as hitman Haseen Ustara and Triptii Dimri as revenge-driven Afsha, this Shakespearean-inspired crime drama pits them against…
Contrary to predictions that US President Donald Trump’s tariffs could push India’s economic growth below 6% in 2026, official estimates published ahead of the Budget have revised the Reserve Bank of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projection upward to 7.4%. Despite pressure from the US tariffs, experts point out that this projected growth is real…
MAGA influencer Elijah Schaffer, known for his racist takes, mocked the Indian accent of Abraham George, the chairman of the Texas GOP, and said Texas is looking more and more like Mumbai because the Republican Party is orchestrating it. “The Texas GOP is lead by an Indian with an Indian accent. Now you know why…
A year after US President Donald Trump introduced a fresh round of tariffs, the economic fallout has proven uneven, with employment taking a clearer hit than prices. At the time, economists warned that the measures would drive up inflation and push unemployment higher. Data from 2025 suggests those concerns were only partly true. While the…
NEW DELHI: India and Germany on Monday finalised 19 agreements and announced a series of measures spanning defence, critical technologies, clean energy, education and mobility during German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s two-day official visit, with Berlin also announcing visa-free transit for Indian passport holders. The ministry of external affairs said the outcomes were aimed at deepening…
The extreme precision of the US in its Venezuelan operation has many analysts debating whether China could be able to execute a similar surgical strike. Driving the news The rapid US operation that removed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from Caracas in under three hours on January 3 sent shockwaves far beyond Latin America.In China, the…
Nato on Monday sought to project unity on Arctic security even as the alliance grapples with a fresh shock from Washington, as the US President Donald Trump has openly floated taking control of Greenland. Nato chief Mark Rutte said the bloc was working on concrete steps to strengthen Arctic defences amid rising Russian and Chinese…
Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Swaminathan J on Friday called for a fundamental shift in banking supervision, stressing that oversight must move from periodic, point-in-time assessments to continuous awareness, as digital risks increasingly redefine financial stability, PTI reported. Speaking at the Third Annual Global Conference of the College of Supervisors on ‘Issues and Challenges…
Total Chess World Championship Tour NEW DELHI: Last week was anything but ordinary in the chaotic realm of elite chess, not because of a single blockbuster match, table slamming, or another jaw-dropping off-the-board spat, but due to the sudden proliferation of “World Championships”. Within days of each other, two major announcements landed on the global…
