NEW DELHI: India is learning to live with a hotter future. From Delhi to Mumbai, temperatures are regularly crossing 45 degrees Celsius, heatwaves are lasting longer and cities are becoming giant heat traps due to rapid urbanisation and the growing urban heat island effect.But if there is one thing Indians are famous for, it is...
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How Sooryavanshi combined Kohli & Gayle to produce greatest IPL season
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi ended up with 776 runs at a stunning strike rate of 237.3 in IPL 2026 (TOI Infographics) For nearly two decades, IPL batting greatness has usually lived in one of two worlds. There was the volume world – the Virat Kohli 2016 model. Pile up mountains of runs, bat through innings, dominate scoreboards...
'15 lakh hits within 2 mins': CBSE re-evaluation portal faces massive cyberattack
CBSE reports DOS attack on re-evaluation portal, says system remains operational NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday said its re-evaluation portal came under multiple cyberattack attempts even as thousands of students accessed the platform to apply for verification of answer books and re-evaluation of marks.In an update posted on X,...
Annamalai submits resignation letter to BJP chief; to launch new party in 6-8 months
Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai met with party leaders in Delhi CHENNAI: Former Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Tuesday met BJP national president Nitin Nabin and the party’s national general secretary (organisation), B L Santhosh, in New Delhi and submitted his resignation letter.Annamalai also handed over a five-page note detailing BJP’s...
Desi jugaads during heatwaves: India’s battle against 45°C temperatures
NEW DELHI: India is learning to live with a hotter future. From Delhi to Mumbai, temperatures are regularly crossing 45 degrees Celsius, heatwaves are lasting longer and cities are becoming giant heat traps due to rapid urbanisation and the growing urban heat island effect.But if there is one thing Indians are famous for, it is...
Microsoft tells engineers to stop using Anthropic's Claude
Microsoft is canceling most internal Claude Code licenses by June 30, pushing engineers to its own GitHub Copilot CLI. The catch? Anthropic’s tool got too popular, undercutting Microsoft’s homegrown product. The official reason is toolchain unification, but The Verge reports the fiscal-year-end timing points to cost-cutting. It fits a wider AI spending crunch hitting Uber...
Google plans to release 32mn Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes across Florida, California
Google’s parent company Alphabet is seeking federal approval to release 32 million specially treated mosquitoes across California and Florida over the next two years—as part of a bid to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne diseases including West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis. The proposal, filed with the US Environmental Protection Agency, is part of...
AMD CEO Lisa Su: Companies do not need people who know how to use AI tools
AMD CEO Lisa Su has a career message for graduates entering an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven job market. The chief executive of the US-based chip company has asked graduates to focus on purpose, judgment and problem-solving rather than simply learning how to use artificial intelligence tools. Speaking at MIT’s commencement ceremony for the Class of 2026,...
Who was Dave Fiji? Indian-origin pilot killed in helicopter crash hours after marrying
Dave Fiji, an Indian-origin pilot with Delta Air Lines, was killed in a helicopter crash in Georgia, United States, hours after marrying his long-time partner, Jesni.The couple boarded a Robinson R66 helicopter following their wedding ceremony in Dawsonville on Friday night. The aircraft was scheduled to fly to DeKalb-Peachtree Airport as part of a post-wedding...
India reviews duty sop on Scotch in UK trade deal
NEW DELHI: Govt is reviewing tariff concessions on Scotch and some other products proposed in the trade agreement with the UK if its concerns over steel quotas and duties are not addressed before the treaty is ratified.“We have to rebalance the FTA… We haven’t made up our mind, but we can consider action on certain...