NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday announced squads for the one-off Test and the three-match ODI series vs Afghanistan, both set to be played in the month of June in India. KL Rahul replaced Pant as the vice-captain of the Indian Test team that is being led by…
A 78-year-old Shanghai man named Qiangming spent nearly a decade living inside a supermarket despite owning an apartment nearby because he feared loneliness after his divorce and estrangement from his son. (AI generated image) Loneliness does not always look dramatic. Sometimes, it sits beside a person in an empty room, waits through silent meals, and…
The family of Twisha Sharma, a 33-year-old woman from Noida who died under suspicious circumstances in Bhopal last week, has sought a fresh postmortem examination through a local court, according to their lawyer on Tuesday.“We have moved an application for a second postmortem of Twisha before the concerned magistrate in Bhopal,” the family’s lawyer Anurag…
For a long stretch of the year, the Lohit River moves through Arunachal Pradesh with the same pale grey-blue appearance associated with Himalayan rivers carrying glacial water downstream. During heavier monsoon periods, though, sections of the river can take on a darker reddish tone, particularly where sediment flow intensifies along the valley edges. Over time,…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board is set to meet on May 22 to consider a potentially record surplus transfer to the government for FY27, with economists estimating the payout in the range of Rs 2.7 lakh crore to Rs 3 lakh crore, ET reported citing people familiar with the matter.The expected surplus transfer,…
Independent India was beset with challenges in every walk of life. Archaeology was no exception. Historian Himanshu Prabha Ray and co-author Ajay Yadav map its journey in a new book, “Indian Archaeology after Independence: Amalananda Ghosh and his legacy.” They also enumerate how AI can aid archaeology. 1. Archaeology in pre-Independent India was primarily a…
Confucius (Image: Wikipedia) There are some quotes that stay alive for centuries because they speak about experiences that never really disappear. Human beings change technology, build different societies and live in different eras, but some habits remain surprisingly similar. One of those habits is the fear of asking questions. It happens in classrooms, offices, meetings…
Ahmedabad: India’s Jasprit Bumrah during a training session on the eve of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 final cricket match between India and New Zealand, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. (PTI Photo/Shailendra Bhojak)(PTI03_07_2026_000358A) NEW DELHI: Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli were named in India’s ODI squad for the upcoming Afghanistan…
Google I/O 2026 officially kicks off tonight at 10:30 pm IST, broadcasting live from the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The keynote will feature Google CEO Sundar Pichai, DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis and, most likely, the the executive heads of Google’s Search, Cloud and Android divisions. Google I/O comes about a week after Google…
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Tuesday rejected activist Umar Khalid’s bail plea to care for ailing mother. The court rejected the plea on the grounds that the reasons cited by him for temporary release were not “reasonable”, ANI reported.Additional sessions judge Sameer Bajpai was hearing Khalid’s plea seeking 15 days’ interim bail to attend…