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The stars whisper, why the heck are we killing each other? Our borders are invisible from space Growing up in a Manipur village, Ronaldo Laishram would spend nights looking up at the stars. Children have done this for a long time. Maybe even those who roamed African savannas where Homo sapiens evolved. Maybe even the…
Most people don’t think they’ve met an “evil person.”The word itself feels too dramatic. It brings to mind movie villains, serial killers, or the kind of people whose stories end up in documentaries.But not every harmful person looks dangerous.Sometimes they’re the colleague everyone seems to like. Sometimes they’re part of a friend group. Sometimes they’re…
Bihar’s street vendors, numbering over 2 lakh, face significant challenges despite some progress. While many hold vending certificates and access loans, institutional gaps and legal protection remain critical issues. Evictions are often arbitrary, with vendors receiving no prior notice. Patna alone has around 40,000 vendors, highlighting the need for designated vending zones across the state….
There was a time in India, and may be it still is when parents want their kids to get into engineering, MBA, and professional degrees apart from medicine, of course. They spend lakhs of their hard-earned money and in many cases take loans for it hoping that their kids will have a better financial future….
The RBI has revised its full year growth estimate upwards to 7.3%. (AI image) By DK SrivastavaThe first and second quarter 2025-26 real GDP growth rates at 7.8% and 8.2% respectively provide a post-Covid robust growth performance. The full year growth is expected to be more than 7%. The RBI has revised its full year…
NEW DELHI: The India-US trade deal goes some way to alleviate stress on Indian exports but there are “plenty of unknowns” and leaves questions unanswered, says an analysis by Moody’s Analytics, an arm of Moody’s.“The deal assumes that India will end its purchase of Russian oil, but there has been no confirmation from India,” said…
Udhayanidhi Stalin (File photo) NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Monday said the Dravidian ideology practised by his party, the DMK, and the principles of Islam are “fundamentally the same”, as both teach “equality, love, and generosity”.“The religion that teaches equality, love, and generosity is our Islam. The principles of Dravidian…
Pakistan’s Interior Minister and Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board Mohsin Naqvi and head coach Mike Hesson (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) Pakistan cricket’s recurring pattern of hype followed by disappointment and backlash has resurfaced once again after another underwhelming run. An early exit from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 at the Super Eight stage was…
Roughly four kilometres below the surface of the central Pacific Ocean, scattered across a stretch of seafloor the size of the continental United States, lie hundreds of billions of apple-sized rocks. They are dark, lumpy, and almost impossibly slow-growing, a few millimetres every million years. Some of the ones sitting on the seabed today began…
Priyanka Chopra Jonas is tackling a unique challenge in SS Rajamouli’s upcoming Telugu film, ‘Varanasi’. She’s phonetically memorizing her lines, admitting she doesn’t speak or understand Telugu, making improvisation particularly difficult. Director Rajamouli guides her through the process, which she finds an ‘added layer of performance’ she relishes. Priyanka Chopra Jonas will be seen in…
