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Why have a policy for a third language? Leave it to schools to decide The Supreme Court has spoken up for students, parents and teachers, voicing deep concern over introduction of a third language in Class 9 in CBSE schools. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan orally asked Centre to not have…

One of the many novelties at this Soccer Super Bowl is the entire squads stand on the pitch for the national anthems before kick off. Until now, only the starting eleven did.At England vs Argentina, opposing fans booed and hissed each other’s hymns. A poignant start to the match that had been endlessly hyped through…

To be an English football fan is to suffer. The rest of the world mistakes ‘it’s coming home’ as a battle cry of arrogance, but the song it’s derived from, Three Lions , is about 60-plus years of failure. Yet, make no mistake, England’s 2-1 loss to Argentina in the World Cup semifinal is the…

Did you know that Kama Sutra’s entire section on love and desire begins with the assumption that lovers rarely have matching libidos?Yet, today, one of the biggest myths about relationships is that if two people truly love each other, they will naturally want sex with the same frequency and intensity. Lovers suffer in silence, rather…

The so-called One Time Password has come to rule our lives I was faced with an impassable problem. It was an OTP, a one-time password, which was acting not like a password but as a stop word, which was stopping me from getting the mandatory PUC for my car, which was up for renewal on…

Why have a policy for a third language? Leave it to schools to decide The Supreme Court has spoken up for students, parents and teachers, voicing deep concern over introduction of a third language in Class 9 in CBSE schools. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan orally asked Centre to not have…

Did you know that Kama Sutra’s entire section on love and desire begins with the assumption that lovers rarely have matching libidos? Yet, today, one of the biggest myths about relationships is that if two people truly love each other, they will naturally want sex with the same frequency and intensity. Lovers suffer in silence,…

Isro needs stronger gravitational pull, not sealed doors, to address problem of staff attrition Attrition is not a new problem for Isro. In 2006, it lost 187 newly trained scientists. Mainly due to better pay in the private sector. Now, about 100 have quit in the past few months, TOI reported on Thursday. Can we…

PM Modi’s three-nation visit (6-11 July 2026) to Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand, marked another significant milestone in India’s Indo-Pacific strategy. Coming close on the heels of high-level visits to India by the leaders of Vietnam and Japan, as well as Modi’s visit to Seychelles, it reflected a carefully calibrated diplomatic outreach aimed at consolidating…

India performs a peculiar ritual every few years. A high-stakes public examination is compromised. The leak is discovered. Arrests follow. A committee is constituted. A re-examination is announced. Within a season, the nation moves on until the cycle repeats. The cancellation of NEET-UG 2026, taken by more than 22.7 lakh aspirants on May 3 and…