“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” Benjamin Franklin reportedly said this nearly 300 years ago. The proverb rings especially true in today’s age of hyper-consumption. Thanks to the shift towards digital payments, many seemingly insignificant purchases stay hidden behind four-digit PINs. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Those few thousand rupees you’re falling…
Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma (ANI Photo) India’s disappointing UK tour has continued to unravel on the field, but the latest ICC Men’s T20I Rankings have provided a rare silver lining, with Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma holding on to the top two batting spots despite the team’s struggles against Ireland and England.India’s white-ball campaign…
Most years, skywatchers have to wait patiently for different celestial events to arrive one at a time. An eclipse might dominate one month, while a meteor shower steals attention weeks later. This August, however, the calendar has produced a rare overlap. On 12 August 2026, a solar eclipse will unfold across parts of the Northern…
Director Lingusamy has shared interesting memories about how two of his biggest hits, ‘Run’ and ‘Sandakozhi,’ were once considered for Thalapathy Vijay. Speaking ahead of the re-release of ‘Run,’ the filmmaker recalled the discussions he had with Vijay and explained why the actor eventually chose not to take up either project. His candid recollections have…
Photo: Instagram/ Katrina Kaif Katrina Kaif has mostly been off social media since the birth of her son Vihaan Kaushal on November 7, 2025. She has been enjoying this private, months-long break, embracing motherhood and making the most of her time with her newborn and husband, Vicky Kaushal.Rather than turning early motherhood into a running…
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Groww Mutual Fund has launched the Groww Nifty Cement ETF, an open-ended exchange-traded fund (ETF) that aims to track the performance of the Nifty Cement Index–Total Return Index (TRI), subject to tracking error. The new fund offer (NFO) opened for subscription on July 8 and will remain open until July 22. The ETF follows a…
Sometimes, being a good neighbour is making others feel like they don’t have one at all. Or so it seems with the recent lawsuit being faced by Microsoft’s much-touted $7.3 billion AI data centre in the US. In early 2026, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella proudly announced his company’s data centre in Fairwater, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin…
ED freezes TMC bank deposits worth Rs 440 crore in Kolkata NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate issued orders to freeze the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC)’s bank deposits worth Rs 440 crore in Kolkata. The order came under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) on Wednesday.The action follows an ongoing money laundering probe into…
Lawrence Bishnoi, Goldy Brar charged in Hardeep Singh Nijjar murder, says US DOJ (Image/ANI) TOI correspondent from Washington: US federal prosecutors have charged jailed Indian gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his close associate Satinderjeet Singh, alias Goldy Brar, with ordering the assassination of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada, but neither the indictment nor US…
