NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Thursday announced the schedule for India’s two-match Test series in Sri Lanka, with both matches set to be played in August as part of the ICC World Test Championship 2025-27 cycle.The first Test will be played at the Galle International Cricket Stadium in Galle from August 15 to…
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma (Image credit: AFP) Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will not be seen in action for India till the next month, after both played all three matches of the three-game ODI series against the West Indies, which ended on Saturday (October 3) with India’s defeat in New Chandigarh. Shai Hope anchored…
“You can’t bribe them. You’ve got to beat them,” Trump said. US President Donald Trump on Monday said Washington was holding “good talks” with Iran and expressed hope that negotiations could lead to an agreement. However, he warned that the United States would resume military strikes if diplomacy failed.Speaking to reporters, Trump said there was…
Optical illusion personality tests are interesting brain teasers that trick the brain and eyes into believing what a person sees first among the many objects hidden in a certain image. Interestingly, these images also claim to reveal something about your personality based on what catches your glance, and your brain locks onto a particular shape…
Baby names often spread quietly, without much attention. Through grandparents, old poetry books, family stories, and sometimes just through sound. In many Indian homes, Indo-Arabic and Persian names have always been there, softly used, never loud about their origins. They feel familiar, easy to say, easy to live with. Here are some such names that…
Chinese proverb of the day (AI-generated image) People deal with different kinds of fears every day. Some fears are based on things that really happen, while others come from not knowing what will happen or from your imagination. A lot of people aren’t really scared of big problems or obvious dangers. They’re more scared of…
File photo: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Picture credit: PTI) India’s ambition to become a Viksit Bharat requires an economy in which enterprises of every size can grow, wherever they begin. Over the past 12 years, our govt has worked to create those conditions. GST’s introduction in 2017 established a common national framework for indirect…
The discovery also has implications far beyond Lassen Volcanic National Park. Astrobiologists study extremophiles to understand the physical and chemical boundaries within which life can survive In the steaming pools of California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park, life has found a way to thrive where most cells would begin to fall apart. Hidden in geothermal waters,…
“They didn’t really like being in care and I think they just wanted to be home together.” That is how Linda McKelvie explained why her parents, Colin and Claudette Geraghty, quietly left the Melbourne care home they had moved into just days earlier.Married for 65 years, Colin, 89, who has Alzheimer’s disease, and Claudette, 83,…
In 1865, the French government began paying people to kill dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea, offering twenty-five francs for each animal. Officials introduced the reward to protect fisheries, because fishing communities believed dolphins were emptying the sea of fish and tearing their nets. A major review of bounty programmes, published in 2026, identifies it as…
There’s a respectable tone to your day. The kind where doors open because people trust your mind and your way with words. Mercury assists you in presenting yourself professionally, and Jupiter’s presence from a favorable direction can be a source of approval for teachers, bosses or other senior leaders. You’ll feel seen. That matters more…
TOI Correspondent from London: British Hindus in Cambridgeshire have lost their bid to have their first place of worship in the county after the local council awarded a piece of faith land to a church and Muslim group in the new town of Northstowe and not to a Hindu charity.South Cambridgeshire District Council has leased…
