The Truth can never be hidden
Sunny Deol does not smoke or drink, even when everyone around him is partying the night away. Fiercely resilient to peer pressure, the Batwara 1947 actor opened up about why he stayed…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
The Maharashtra government has begun enforcing a requirement that auto rickshaw and taxi drivers demonstrate a working knowledge of Marathi, making language proficiency a condition for continuing work. The crackdown follows a…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
Sajjan Kumar, the former Congress MP convicted in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, died at Safdarjung Hospital on Thursday while serving a life sentence. Kumar was convicted in February 2025 by a…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
What if a cancer drug could remain inactive while travelling through the body and switch on primarily when it reaches a cancer cell? That is the idea behind RK-251, a new experimental…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
On the outer walls of the Chennakeshava temple in Belur, built by the Hoysala kings in the 12th century, stands a woman holding betel leaves. But the tambula or betel appears nowhere…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
The political debate over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reference to “dimaagi Naxals”, or “intellectual Naxals”, has quickly acquired the familiar shape of Indian political argument. The remark has been defended by the…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
Anyone waiting for municipal approval of a building plan may wonder why a local body should regulate construction on private land. In the Madras Presidency, such powers were formalised under the Madras…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
India is the second-largest market for Anthropic’s Claude AI by overall usage, but ranks near the bottom globally when that usage is adjusted for the size of its working-age population. The finding…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
On one recent trip, I snapped at my eight-year-old son. What he said to my husband and me a few minutes later took us completely by surprise. And it has been coming…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug
Awarapan 2 actor Emraan Hashmi once recalled how Shah Rukh Khan’s six-pack abs in the 2007-film Om Shanti Om’s Dard-e-Disco song led him to hire a trainer. “I never paid attention to…
By Sohail Khan · 20 Aug