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On February 15, the red balloons look tired. They hang outside cafes like overworked interns. Half deflated. Still smiling. Quietly questioning their life choices. Valentine’s Day is over. The roses are discounted. The heart shaped cakes are 30 percent off. The same couples who posted “Forever begins today” are quietly arguing over who paid the…
Bernstein has a market perform rating on Kotak Bank with the target price at Rs 500. Analysts said Kotak Bank closed FY26 on a strong note, with a beat across most operating metrics. The lender’s net interest margin expanded about 13 basis points (100 basis points = 1 percentage point) on the quarter (QoQ), the…
Pinarayi Vijayan, Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Keralam Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday targeted Rahul Gandhi and the Congress, calling them the “B-team” of the BJP, as the political fight ahead of the state elections intensifies.Addressing a press conference in Ernakulam, Vijayan said Rahul Gandhi lacked even the basic understanding expected from a Congress worker…
Only a few days after Rihanna made headlines for doing aarti and saying ‘Shukriya’ (thank you), she was spotted once more by paparazzi out and about in public. This time around, the famed singer was seen wearing one of her most iconic pieces of clothing. Rihanna wears her most iconic hoodie to Paris outing Rihanna…
Pakistan’s Saim Ayub celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of India’s Ishan Kishan during an ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 cricket match between India and Pakistan, at R Premadasa Stadium, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (PTI Photo) India came to Colombo prepared for Usman Tariq, but it was Saim Ayub who turned the game…
The impulse to acquire is woven deeply into human nature. From the very beginning of life, we seek to hold, to gather, to possess. Even at birth, letting go does not come easily. As we grow, this instinct matures with us. What begins as curiosity in a child slowly transforms into attachment, ambition, and the…
Engineer Rashid (PTI image) SRINAGAR: Kashmir’s chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq Thursday urged central govt to release Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid, who has remained incarcerated at New Delhi’s Tihar Jail for the past five years, on humanitarian grounds, to meet his ailing father.In a statement, the Mirwaiz said he had visited the jailed MP’s father,…
Hardik Pandya, right, celebrates with Ishan Kishan the wicket of Pakistan’s Sahibzada Farhan. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s emphatic triumph over arch-rivals Pakistan in the ICC T20 World Cup wasn’t just another win — it was, in Sachin Tendulkar’s words, a takeover scripted in the powerplay itself.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE…
Trigger warning: This article mentions death. Reader discretion is advised.Christopher North, the founding keyboard player of the iconic American rock band Ambrosia and the man his bandmates lovingly called the ‘Hammond B3 King’, has passed away at the age of 75. North died on March 30, 2026, after battling pneumonia in the hospital for nearly…
A few weeks ago, this column looked at how time has changed in shape and form. We now have two kinds of time— hard, that comes with fixed boundaries and imposes itself on us, and soft, that fluid, almost liquid time we spend streaming, scrolling and clicking on our phones. In the latter, time is…
