Month: May 2026

Two months into office, Nepal’s Gen Z icon and Prime Minister Balendra Shah, popularly known as Balen, is already facing questions over whether his ambitious reform agenda is slipping behind…

Sabeer Bhatia (Left) Sridhar Vembu (Right) An online fight between two billionaires over how India should view its past has stirred a row on social media, with Indian-origin tech entrepreneurs…

TOI correspondent from Washington: In the summer of 1976, a Kanpur-born teenage engineering student from BITS Pilani stood in the lobby of the US embassy in New Delhi after being…

Deep in Utah’s desert near Moab lies one of America’s strangest hidden communities. Known as Rockland Ranch, or “The Rock”, the settlement is home to dozens of families living inside…

Raja Krishnamoorthi and Pramila Jayapal Indian-American lawmakers and advocacy groups have criticised US President Donald Trump after he shared a social media post that used derogatory language about Indians and…

Some quotes survive because they sound wise. Others survive because they create a small moment of discomfort. They stay in people’s minds because they touch something that still feels real…

A 37-year-old man has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of an award-winning young farmer in Derbyshire, more than two years after the incident shocked the local farming…

In the mid-1960s, inside a research laboratory run by DuPont, Stephanie Kwolek was searching for something fairly practical. The company wanted lightweight yet durable fibres that could eventually replace steel…

For a long time, astronomers treated the early universe as a place where galaxies were still finding their footing, small systems forming stars rapidly, while the larger cosmic structures familiar…

A technology that could propel crewed missions to Mars and robotic spacecraft throughout the solar system was recently put to the test at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.…