India’s space growth marks a shift from building space capabilities to building strategic autonomy, commercial depth and sustained presence beyond Earth. For decades, the central question was whether India could design, build and launch increasingly complex spacecraft on its own. That question has been answered across multiple fronts, from indigenous launch vehicles and navigation systems…
A CEO can spend years studying markets, competitors and balance sheets. But according to an intriguing line of research, one of the influences that may shape how some of these powerful executives run their companies could be sitting at the family dinner table: their daughters.Research has found that companies led by CEOs who have daughters…
A nostalgic look at five old-school Indian candies and toffees remembered by many 80s children, from orange hard sweets and minty treats to elaichi, caramel and paan-flavoured candies. The 1980s had a very different kind of childhood. Before supermarket aisles became crowded with imported chocolates and colourful packaged snacks, a small neighbourhood kirana shop could…
After a disappointing show at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Pranati Nayak gave herself a chance to make amends by qualifying for the vault final at the Asian Games on Tuesday.The 31-year-old, India’s lone artistic gymnast at the continental meet, finished seventh in the qualification round at Nagoya General Gymnasium with an aggregate score of…
On September 26, 2026, the Harvest Moon creates a stunning celestial trio alongside bright Saturn and faint Neptune. Rising in the east shortly after sunset, the Full Moon peaks at 16:49 UTC. While Saturn is easily visible to the naked eye as a steady point of light, locating distant magnitude-8 Neptune requires binoculars or a…
Representative Image of the Yangtze River flowing from the Tibetan Plateau to Shanghai (AI Generated Image) British adventurer Ash Dykes became the first person to walk the length of China’s Yangtze River, covering 6,437 kilometres, or about 4,000 miles, from the river’s scientific source in southern Qinghai to its mouth near Shanghai. Guinness World Records…
Roshibina Devi assures third successive Asian Games medal New Delhi: She wasn’t supposed to be in Aich-Nagoya. Not at the Asian Games. Not at her third successive continental event. And certainly not one win away from a place in the women’s 60kg sanda final.Naorem Roshibina Devi had lost fairly in the selection trials for the…
Couples who keep different last names after tying the knot divorce at higher rates and often part ways sooner than those who share a surname.That finding comes from an analysis by the Institute for Family Studies, which looked at 2023 Pew Research Center data along with Texas divorce records. The New York Post reported on…
File photo: US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping TOI correspondent from Washington: Donald Trump has spent years telling Americans that China has been eating America’s lunch. On Wednesday, he will go to the airport to welcome the man who owns the restaurant.In an unprecedented spectacle, Trump will schlep where no US President…
‘Mandaadi’ box office collection day 13 vs ‘Sardar 2’_ Soori’s film reaches. Soori starrer ‘Mandaadi’ continued its box-office run with another collection on Day 13. The action film earned Rs 1.90 cr in India on Tuesday, September 22. The amount came from 3,481 shows across the country.The latest figures have taken the film’s total India…
At 17, California student Cavon Hajimiri has developed a wearable device designed to warn pedestrians about vehicles approaching from behind. Called Hindsight, the invention uses radar technology to detect potential hazards and alert users through sounds and vibrations. Hajimiri, a student at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, began working on the project after experiencing several close…
Quote of the day by Oscar Wilde: “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself” Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright, born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College and Oxford. He became one of London’s most talked-about literary…
