Bengal has two poets whose vintage is considered above all others: Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam. Now, with full awareness of the absurdity involved, one may have to add a third name to the footnotes: MD Ahnaf Hossain.Hossain, a Bangladeshi-origin New Yorker, became a social media sensation after his chant: “My mayor’s Muslim, my…
A senior banker with royal links has been arrested in connection with the long-unsolved “Putney Pusher” case, nearly a decade after a woman was shoved into the path of an oncoming bus in London.The 44-year-old man was detained at his £1. 4million home in west London on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm. He is…
TOI correspondent from Washington: There was a time when a presidential evening at the White House meant chamber music, state dinners, and deep conversations about nuclear disarmament and trade deficits. Now it apparently means a UFC fighter grabbing a microphone to thank President Trump for having “the balls to put some sh1t like this on,”…
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,…
In a heroic feat, a man saved a three-year-old girl dangling from a second-floor window in London. He revealed that the cricket skills he learned in India helped him make the life-saving catch.The incident unfolded above a busy shopping street in Ilford, where onlookers watched as the young child clung to a window ledge several…
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…
This year marks 75 years since one of the most important machines in computing history was switched on for the very first time. On June 14, 1951, the UNIVAC I, short for Universal Automatic Computer, was formally dedicated at the U.S. Census Bureau’s offices, just months after the agency had signed a contract for the…
Image credit: AP US President Donald Trump publicly criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, describing him as a “very difficult guy”, while defending the newly announced US-Iran agreement and arguing that Israel should be grateful for Washington’s role in preventing Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.Speaking to a New York Times reporter, Trump also praised…
A vast area of Antarctica that should be covered in winter sea ice is instead lying largely exposed to the ocean, alarming scientists and raising fresh concerns about the future of the frozen continent. Satellite observations show that roughly 650,000 square kilometres of sea ice, an area comparable to the size of France, has failed…
Climate change is often framed as a story of ecological loss, but scientists have uncovered an unexpected consequence unfolding nearly 2,500 metres beneath the Arctic Ocean. As glaciers in Greenland and parts of the Russian Arctic destabilise, increasing numbers of debris-laden icebergs are drifting through the Fram Strait before melting and releasing vast quantities of…
