India’s Rishabh Pant plays a shot (PTI Photo) Ravichandran Ashwin believes Rishabh Pant needs to show greater awareness of match situations and take more responsibility with the bat, despite the wicketkeeper-batter putting together a respectable series against Sri Lanka.Pant finished the two-Test series with 168 runs and two half-centuries. However, Ashwin feels the numbers do…
The story of humankind underlines that truth has more facets than are normally perceived. Tesseract: The Geometry of Truth, unveiled through allegory and animation, movement and music, colour and contemplation shows that our future survival hinges on pure intelligence being tempered by empathyWe live in the age of information. It comes at us from all…
US launches Education Freedom Tax Credit to expand school choice The US Departments of Education and Treasury have released details of a new Education Freedom Tax Credit during National School Choice Week. The programme has been introduced under President Donald Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts Act and is being positioned by the administration as a…
Rakesh Bedi has been the talk of the town ever since the release of Aditya Dhar‘s ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’. The veteran actor won immense praise for his performance as Jameel Jamali in the Ranveer Singh starrer. Recently, at an event Bedi spoke about his character and if Aditya Dhar had revealed the suspense of his…
Although the concept seems like something from science fiction, science is rapidly adopting it. Researchers have started creating ‘cyborg cockroaches,’ which are live insects equipped with tiny electronic ‘backpacks’ that allow them to navigate areas that are too small or hazardous for humans. The potential application of this discovery in pipeline inspection, where these insects…
General:You’ll feel the heat of responsibility today. The Moon and Saturn push you into hard work, and because of that you may feel tense and restless. It’s not failure, it’s pressure building muscle.Your relations with neighbours improve. A small chat near the lift, a friendly message in the society group, or helping someone with a…
NEET 2027 to adopt Computer-Based Test format, ending pen-and-paper examinations for medical aspirants across India permanently NEW DELHI: The National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for undergraduate medical admissions will move completely to the Computer-Based Test (CBT) format from 2027, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said. The transition will end the use of pen-and-paper OMR sheets…
Delhi Nursery Admissions 2026 The first list of shortlisted students for Delhi’s Nursery, KG, and Class 1 admissions for the 2026‑27 academic session has been officially released, marking the first major milestone in the city’s highly competitive early childhood education process. Covering over 1,700 private unaided schools and nearly 1.25 lakh applicants, the list reflects…
NEW DELHI: Senior executives of some of the highway construction companies told TOI that the increase has started impacting the road construction cost as bitumen and fuel expenses are around 30% of the project cost. “Since the commercial diesel price is revised from time to time, we are worried whether there will be another round…
NEW DELHI: India’s warm-up match against a Sri Lanka XI ahead of the two-Test series has been shortened from four days to three days, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed. The practice match will now be played from August 7 to August 9 at the Nondescripts Cricket Club (NCC) Ground in Colombo.In a statement, SLC…
