When Tony Parkes retired from investment banking at the age of 56, few would have predicted that his next chapter would revolve around seedlings, rainforest ecology and one of Australia’s most ambitious conservation efforts. On the far north coast of New South Wales, where the once-vast Big Scrub rainforest had been reduced to scattered fragments,…
Actor Ajith Kumar has always shown great interest in motor sports over the past year, despite being actively engaged in his movies. He most recently participated in the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France, regarded as one of the hardest races on the globe. It became historic for Ajith when his team…
The Maharashtra CET Cell has announced the MHT CET 2026 PCM results for engineering aspirants, enabling candidates to access their scorecards online. The results include percentile scores and key exam details required for admissions. With this declaration, the focus now shifts to the Centralised Admission Process (CAP), which will guide engineering seat allotment across participating…
NEW DELHI: Cricket fans are used to seeing the famous ‘Snicko’ technology helping umpires determine whether a batter has edged the ball. But on Monday, a similar piece of technology made an appearance during a FIFA World Cup 2026 match between Sweden and Tunisia at the Stadio Monterrey.While Sweden’s dominant 5-1 victory grabbed headlines, it…
Hyderabad: BJP state president N Ramchander Rao accused Congress, BRS, and AIMIM parties opposing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of resorting to mud slinging for political gains and also fear of losing bogus votes in the purification of electoral rolls initiated by the Election Commission of India (ECI).“Three parties Congress, BRS, and MIM are misleading the…
Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari KOLKATA: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced that elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) would be held by December this year. He signalled the BJP government’s intent to restore an elected civic board just days after dissolving the Trinamool Congress-controlled body and mayor Firhad Hakim’s resignation.Addressing a programme at…
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NEW DELHI: Rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs on Monday said they would fight for control of the party’s election symbol, asserting that they remained part of the organisation and were seeking to “rectify” it, a day after 20 dissident lawmakers announced their merger with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI).Speaking to reporters, Arup Chakraborty…
TOI correspondent from Washington: When Sundar Pichai was studying at Stanford in the 1990s, he once skipped class to go to Las Vegas. When he returned to Stanford to deliver the commencement address on Sunday, some students skipped Sundar Pichai.It was a very Silicon Valley graduation ceremony: the CEO of Google, one of the most…
The rupee rose against the US dollar for a second straight session on Monday, helped by a sharp decline in crude oil prices after a preliminary US-Iran agreement to end the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported.The currency also extended gains seen after the Reserve Bank of India’s June 5 measures to…
