In an interview with TOI’s Surendra Singh, Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi, who has been leading the 12.4 lakh-strong Indian Army since June 30, 2024 and played a key role in rolling out Operation Sindoor, spoke at length about how lessons learnt from last year’s operation against Pakistan are now part of the…
Bengaluru: Parents and guardians from Sampigehalli, north Bengaluru, blocked a vehicle of Vibgyor School in Chokkanahalli, demanding an apology from its driver for alleged rash driving. The protesters filed a complaint with Sampigehalli police against the driver, identified as M Harsha. Based on their complaint, police issued a notice to Harsha, who apologised for rash…
A groundbreaking study by Linda Losurdo, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, successfully simulated extreme chemical environments in space in the lab. By combining nitrogen, carbon dioxide and acetylene in high-voltage electrical plasma, she recreated a fragment of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The findings…
US President Donald Trump on Friday said Washington faces a clear choice in its approach to Iran, either pursue a negotiated settlement or escalate militarily, as tensions continue in the Middle East.“There are options. Do we want to go and just blast the hell out of them and finish them forever? Or do we want…
ASML, the Dutch chip equipment maker that holds a global monopoly on the machines used to manufacture advanced semiconductors, is cutting roughly 1,700 jobs—about 4% of its 44,000-person workforce. The layoffs, announced in January alongside record full-year revenue of €32.7 billion, are targeting management and coordination roles, not engineers.Internal documents obtained by Business Insider show…
Massive Fire in Indirapuram Housing Society NEW DELHI: A massive fire broke out at the Gaur Green Avenue society in Abhay Khand, Indirapuram, on Wednesday morning. Fire tenders rushed to the spot soon after the blaze was reported, as thick plumes of smoke billowed from the residential complex. Around 5 to 6 flats have been…
Rajasthan Royals skipper Riyan Parag sets the field during IPL 2026 match against Delhi Capitals. (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: The ongoing IPL 2026 season has come under sharp scrutiny for a worrying decline in fielding standards, with former India cricketer Mohammad Kaif leading the criticism after highlighting repeated errors and poor catching across teams.The numbers…
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization has cleared, for the first time, a malaria treatment made specifically for newborns and young infants—closing a gap doctors have struggled with for years.The drug is a child-friendly version of artemether-lumefantrine—a two-drug therapy in which one component acts quickly to reduce parasites in the blood, while the other stays…
NEW DELHI: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday urged “people to remain calm and avoid any kind of panic as all concrete steps are being taken to prevent shortages or disruptions in supply chains”. The minister, who chaired the 5th meeting of the informal group of ministers (IGoM) on the West Asia developments, said his…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the Election Commission of India (ECI) “did not act outside its statutory powers” while conducting the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), ruling that the exercise could not be termed “ultra vires merely because it differs from the ordinary revision process”.“SIR fulfils proportionality and are not manifestely execessive….
