From Twitter CEO to AI founder: IIT Bombay alumnus Parag Agrawal builds a $2 billion startup after exit For many engineering students, cracking the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is seen as the biggest milestone of their academic journey. But for IIT Bombay alumnus Parag Agrawal, it was only the beginning of a career that would…
Citadel of Aleppo, Syria (Image Credit: Canva) Through the ages, fortresses have been regarded as monuments of strength, endurance and exceptional engineering feats. Constructed to safeguard kingdoms, protect trade passages and repel invading forces, these grand edifices were mostly built at places such as hills, deserts and mountain passes where the surrounding landscape became an…
Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu calls Diljit Dosanjh an ‘impostor’ amid Satluj row, says ‘government has no control over OTT platforms’ The controversy over Diljit Dosanjh‘s film Satluj has taken a fresh political turn. Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu has called the actor-singer an “impostor” while denying allegations that the Centre had anything to do…
Football (Representational Image) Former Romania midfielder Gabriel Muresan has died at the age of 44 after drowning in a lake near Apold, the town where he served as mayor, according to a report from news agency AP. Muresan, who became mayor in 2020, was remembered for both his football career and his service to the…
4 US cops helped Chandrakant ‘Lala’ Patel to continue his decade-long U visa fraud. Indian man Chandrakant Patel was arrested and charged with visa fraud that involved fake robberies. Now it has come to the surface that 4 law enforcement officers were helping him in his decade-long operation in Louisiana.Congress created the U-visa for victims…
Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev, Prakash Chik Baraik (L-R) NEW DELHI: Hours after formally joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Prakash Chik Baraik were on Thursday named as the BJP’s candidates for the upcoming bypoll elections.The announcement came shortly after the three leaders were…
Brent crude in London traded close to $79 a barrel on Thursday, taking its gain for the week to nearly 9%. (AI image) Iran has accelerated crude shipments, dispatching oil tankers carrying about 11 million barrels over the past 24 hours as tensions with the US escalate once again and President Donald Trump threatens to…
Who is Himesh Patel? Meet the British-Indian actor playing Eurylochus in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey boasts one of the biggest ensembles of 2026, but one actor generating plenty of curiosity is British-Indian star Himesh Patel. After winning audiences over in Yesterday and delivering memorable performances in Tenet and Station Eleven, Patel…
Shreyas Iyer continued an unusual streak of success ahead of India’s fourth T20I against England on Thursday, winning his sixth consecutive toss as captain to equal Virat Kohli for the second-longest run by an Indian skipper in T20Is.Iyer’s remarkable run now leaves him just one toss win away from matching MS Dhoni‘s record of seven…
NEW DELHI: Four years after the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 set out to recast undergraduate education, research, credit mobility and industry linkages, the first AISHE stocktake of NEP implementation shows an uneven reform map. Only 56% of responding universities have introduced four-year undergraduate programmes, 49% offer multiple entry and exit, 55% participated in NIRF,…
