In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, astronauts land on a planet orbiting close to a black hole. They spend a few hours on its surface. When they return to their spacecraft, they discover that 23 years have passed on Earth. Children have grown up. A lifetime has slipped away.It feels like science fiction, but it’s not fantasy….
Nitish Kumar and son Nishant Kumar (Picture from X) NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s son Nishant Kumar on Sunday formally joined the JD(U), days after the party chief filed his nomination for a Rajya Sabha seat in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah.As the longest-serving chief minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar’s…
“The IDF will continue to operate relentlessly, day and night, out of a deep commitment to bringing all of Israel’s sons, the fallen and the missing, back home to Israel,” IDF said later. (Photo from X) An Israeli special forces operation in eastern Lebanon aimed at locating the remains of missing Israeli airman Ron Arad…
President Murmu and PM Modi President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday extended greetings to “nari shakti” on the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated worldwide on March 8 every year.President Droupadi Murmu extended greetings on the occasion and described women as the “pillars of a progressive nation”.In a post on X,…
NEW DELHI: A political row has erupted over the recent International Santhal Conclave in West Bengal after the state government changed the venue for the event at the last minute. The controversy intensified after President Droupadi Murmu, who was scheduled to attend the event, publicly expressed displeasure over the decision and also noted the absence…
BALLARI: A boy attacked fellow students with a bed rod at a Gurukul residential school in Karnataka’s Ballari district late at night, leaving one student dead and several others injured, police said. According to Ballari police, the incident took place after dinner when the students were asleep in the hostel. The boy went on a…
NEW DELHI: Anurag Dobhal, a popular Indian motovlogger and former contestant on Bigg Boss 17, was injured after crashing his SUV while livestreaming on social media on the Delhi–Meerut Expressway. The crash happened near Masuri in Ghaziabad, where Dobhal was seen driving a Toyota Fortuner at speeds of around 140–150 km/h during an Instagram livestream…
File photo: US President Donald Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping Chinese analysts and officials do not believe the US would target Xi in the same way it did with Khamenei, given China’s status as a nuclear power. But Trump’s embrace of war as a tool to assert American dominance has nonetheless reaffirmed Beijing’s view…
NEW DELHI: Amid the increased pace of construction and the laying of new road and rail corridors, the PMO has directed road transport and railway ministries to introduce independent third-party audits to ensure high-quality work. They have also been asked to eliminate delays in project execution.TOI has learnt that PM Narendra Modi has also asked…
NEW DELHI: At a time when parents are worried about the downside of screen addiction among adolescents, legal experts including former CJI Ranjan Gogoi appreciated the intent behind proposed move by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh to ban social media access to children below certain age but doubted the pertinence and effectiveness of legislative or executive…
