While the Indian economy continues to be on a strong footing, it is faced with global headwinds that have added to uncertainty. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Sanjay Malhotra on Wednesday said that the Monetary Policy Committee has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 5.25% with a neutral policy stance. India continues…
Photo credit: @johnkernickphotography / Instagram When Martha Stewart purchased a 152-acre farmhouse in Katonah, New York, in 2000, the property was more than a country retreat. It became a working farm, creative laboratory and carefully managed home for an ever-growing collection of animals. Over the next 26 years, the former farmhouse evolved into Bedford Farm,…
Harshith Nelabhotla. Image Credit: Youth Scientists Lab Harshith Nelabhotla, an Ohio student, has earned recognition for developing a ‘Real-Time ASL Word Recognition System,’ a project that brings artificial intelligence to American Sign Language (ASL). His work has been named the ‘2026 Ohio State Merit Winner’ in the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, placing his idea among…
NEW DELHI: Centre’s fiscal deficit hovered around 18% of the full year’s estimate at the end of the first quarter, despite elevated capex and a slower growth in tax revenue due to the impact of GST rationalisation.During April-June, the Centre’s tax revenue was 3.7% higher at just over Rs 9 lakh crore, compared with a…
Hunter Biden takes a jab at Trump Hunter Biden has mockingly nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, seizing on a media analysis that found the president has claimed to have ended the war with Iran on at least 38 separate occasions since fighting began earlier this year.In a post on X,…
Hello and welcome to our new daily World Cup column: OFFSIDE.Whenever there is a World Cup, we usually get two headline ads from Nike and Adidas, who between them sponsor 26 of the 48 teams. Adidas’ ad was called Backyard Legends, headlined by Timothée Chalamet, where he is putting together a team to beat a…
Ricky Hatton’s luxury mansion sells for £1.5m after £350,000 price cut. (Photo: Getty Images/Rightmove) The luxury mansion belonging to late boxing legend Ricky Hatton has finally been sold for £1.5 million, £350,000 below its original asking price, according to Land Registry documents cited by the Daily Mail.The five-bedroom detached property in Gee Cross, Greater Manchester,…
Asian Games 2026 (Reuters Photo) India signed off from the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya with a strong fourth-place finish, winning 85 medals, including 21 gold, 27 silver and 37 bronze.While India fell short of its record-breaking 106-medal haul at the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Aichi-Nagoya campaign was marked by a late surge, several historic…
Hayden Panettiere, who shot to fame in the TV shows ‘Heroes’ and ‘Nashville’ while enduring struggles with alcohol addiction and postpartum depression, tragically passed away on Sunday. She was 36. Hayden Panettiere pronounced deceased at the scene Police said Panettiere was found unresponsive in an apartment in Greenville, South Carolina, shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday….
R Praggnanandhaa talks about his Chess Olympiad campaign NEW DELHI: In the open section of the 2026 Candidates Tournament, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa was India’s sole representative in Cyprus earlier this year. He did not win the top prize there. But the quality of chess he played was unmistakably high.He has continued to maintain that standard at…
