Savitha Shri speaks about Chess Olympiad NEW DELHI: Savitha Shri Baskar emerged as India’s golden girl at the 2026 Chess Olympiad, but there was a point when her chess career was funded by her father’s gold jewellery, pawned to cover a national tournament’s entry fee.Baskar, an electrician in Singapore at the time, would go on…
Shilpa Shetty’s premium restaurant chain, Bastian, has long been one of Mumbai’s most talked-about dining brands. The business grabbed widespread attention last year after author Shobhaa De claimed that one of its Mumbai outlets earned between Rs 2 crore and Rs 3 crore in a single night. While Shilpa later rejected those figures, her husband…
Just days after powerful earthquakes devastated parts of Venezuela, residents of Caracas looked up to witness another extraordinary sight: a sky glowing an intense crimson red as the Sun dipped below the horizon. Videos of the spectacle quickly spread across social media, prompting speculation that the phenomenon was connected to the recent seismic disaster. While…
NEW DELHI: A parliamentary committee has questioned whether rising capital expenditure in India’s oil and gas sector is translating into higher domestic production, noting that crude oil output has continued to decline despite a sharp increase in investments.It has asked the petroleum ministry to submit a detailed report explaining how recent exploration reforms and newly…
The attack on Saturday killed 12 people and wounded around 300 others, some critically. The airport remained closed on Sunday after another projectile struck a passenger terminal. Passengers and travellers caught up in a deadly missile strike at Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport have recounted scenes of panic, bloodshed and confusion, as attacks blamed on…
A parent encourages a toddler who is struggling with a puzzle. Another responds warmly when a child tries something new. These moments may seem ordinary, but researchers have found that the quality of parent-child interactions in early childhood is linked to how children’s brains respond to rewards years later. In a study that followed 465…
The AI-driven rally that turned South Korea into one of the world’s hottest equity markets ran out of fuel on Tuesday. As of 9:50 am IST, the Korean benchmark tumbled over 7%, to trade at 7,478.61, down 572.72 points. The plunge comes as a sharp reversal for a stock that inched record highs this year,…
