Maintenance staff clean ‘bird droppings’ during the men’s singles round of 16 match between India’s H.S. Prannoy and Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew at the India Open 2026 badminton tournament in New Delhi. (PTI Photo) India’s presence on the global badminton calendar has taken a hit in the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) revamped schedule. While the…
MUMBAI: A new report warns that proposed changes to housing data collection risk overcorrecting an implementation problem rather than fixing a design flaw. Critiquing the govt’s plan to shift to monthly rent surveys, the authors say the move amounts to “throwing the baby out with the bathwater,” based on a flawed diagnosis and an unnecessarily…
Pressure linked to the ‘Sell America’ narrative is unlikely to fade. (AI image) US President Donald Trump’s fresh attack on the Federal Reserve seems to have revived the ‘Sell America’ sentiment in the stock market and strategists and market experts are warning that the selloff may deepen over time if the tiff between the government…
It is not easy being Karan Shah, but it is certainly worth being him. He seems to live by the famous quote, “He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.”Karan Sunil Shah is in his early twenties and has an infectious sense of humour. He lives with Type III Spinal…
NEW DELHI: With his resignation on Friday, former Allahabad high court judge Justice Yashwant Varma saved himself from the embarrassment of being the first judge to be “removed” through a motion adopted in Parliament.Lok Sabha had admitted the motion to initiate proceedings against him in Aug last year. The law for removal of a judge…
IBPS Clerk Mains exam 2025: The Institute of Banking Personnel Selection (IBPS) Clerk Main examination 2025 is expected to take place at the end of November. Only those candidates who have successfully cleared the preliminary stage will be permitted to appear for the next round of the recruitment process.As per the tentative examination calendar released…
Virat Kohli and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image: RCB/Screengrab) Rajasthan Royals sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has opened up on his memorable interaction with Virat Kohli after the IPL 2026 final, admitting that speaking to his childhood idol felt “like a dream” and how he admired the cap signed by him.The 15-year-old batting prodigy, who enjoyed a record-breaking season…
A Pocso court in UP’s Banda sentenced to death Friday a former govt junior engineer and his wife for sexually abusing 33 boys over a decade, some as young as three, and selling videos and photographs of their torture on the dark web to customers across 47 countries. Additional district judge PK Mishra said convicts…
Mustafizur Rahman (Image credit: BCB) NEW DELHI: In addition to seeking a shift of Bangladesh’s T20 World Cup league matches from India to Sri Lanka over “concerns about players’ safety” following Mustafizur Rahman’s removal from the IPL on BCCI instructions, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has also been asked to suspend the broadcast of the…
Waking up before sunrise or starting your day in complete darkness might seem like a harmless part of a busy schedule, but it can quietly interfere with how your body is meant to function. Humans evolved to wake with natural morning light, and our internal systems are strongly shaped by that relationship between light and…