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December—the dark sky is showering a confetti of white wool everywhere, and I’m running to grab my warmest sweaters and furriest mittens.  No sunlight—all the colours are fading into grey. The flow of life is slowly freezing into stillness.  Ugh! The cold. Where is my quilt? I want to hibernate like sleepy a turtle! Zzzzzzzz………

Since the 2000s, Google Search—and later YouTube and Discover—served as the primary discovery and monetization engines for digital publishing. This relationship was symbiotic, if lopsided. Two decades later, the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has slowed that “firehose” of traffic, leaving publishers to face a “Google zero” crisis. As traffic wanes, foundation model companies…

The Asian Development Bank’s Water and Sanitation in Indian Cities framework arrives at a critical moment for India’s urban future. Rapid urbanisation, climate stress, and widening inequality are converging to expose a hard truth: India’s water and sanitation challenge is no longer primarily about building infrastructure. It is about how cities are planned, governed, and…

Amit Kumar Amit Kumar was trained as a Mechanical Engineer with specialization in thermal engineering from the University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee) where he was awarded the University Gold Medal. Post his graduation, he decided to pursue a career in renewable energy, a novelty in the early eighties. He had retired…

Planets in Astrology are modules of the subconscious. One must not mistake them as influencers of subconscious dispositions, pulling the strings from somewhere far and away in space. Neither should you harbour the impression that the inner modules direct our behaviours while the outer ones determine our unchangeable destiny. Think of them as mutual extensions…

Award winning artist Saba Hasan is one of those multidisciplinary artists who is constantly wound up in the web of her own artistic odysseys. From catching the shades of light with her camera at Deer Park in Delhi to chasing abstract tenors at Manhattan in NY, to watching fishermen selling fresh catch during sunsets at…

By The XIV Dalai Lama Throughout my life, i have held deep respect for all major religious traditions. Among them, Christianity occupies a special place – not because it is similar to Buddhism in doctrine, but because of radiant love that shines through the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. When i read gospels or…

A new US law, Epstein Files Transparency Act, got a 427-1 vote in the House of Representatives last month. And as justice department began releasing thousands of photos, police reports and other material on Friday, what it’s really underlined is how and why Trump administration has been losing its grasp on power. Read full story…

For years, local and foreign fugitives have stalled extradition requests to India in courts of countries like UK, Netherlands and Australia. Overcrowding, lack of medical facilities and other deficits in Indian prisons are cited in foreign courts, leading to extradition requests being denied. Read full story on TOI+ Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed…

Kolkata ko gussa kyun aata hai Stop blaming the city of joy for what happened at the Messi event. Kolkata, as we all know, has had two religions: communism and football. While communism may have no gods (ostensibly), football does, and who is a greater Zeus than Lionel Messi himself? And as we all know,…