The man who changed American retail, Sam Walton, learned everything by walking into stores.Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Sam Walton didn’t build Walmart from his corner office. He made it from the road, travelling from state to state, walking into other people’s stores, taking notes on everything he saw. Before Walmart became the retail giant that…
Edappadi K Palaniswami; MK Stalin; Vijay NEW DELHI: With vote counting in Tamil Nadu set for May 4, attention is focused on several high-profile constituencies featuring prominent candidates such as chief minister MK Stalin, his son and deputy chief minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay, among others.All 234 assembly constituencies in…
NEW DELHI: The Lawrence Bishnoi syndicate claimed responsibility for a firing incident at a cafe in Canada early on Saturday. The gang warned the cafe owner and comedian Kapil Sharma, who owns the adjacent outlet, Kap’s Cafe, to fall in line.In a social media post attributed to a Facebook account named “Tyson Bishnoi Zora Sidhu”,…
New Delhi: Nausheen Naz, all of 15, caught everyone’s eye at the Hockey India sub-junior nationals last month. The youngster from Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, scored nine goals to finish as the top scorer. She has the natural instincts of a striker but needs to develop her skills and game awareness. Former India hockey captain Rani…
Africa may show us first what happens when a continent splits in two. Image credit – Gemini Africa appears to be relatively stable geologically. However, many forces are at play underneath the surface of the continent, resulting in its break-up. And scientists claim this is proceeding faster than expected. In millions of years, this process…
Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales watched a seven-step review process collapse and gave the world a free encyclopedia. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons If you’ve ever fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole at 2 a.m, starting with with the Bermuda Triangle and somehow ending up on the page for the 1987 World Snooker Championship, then you’ve…
Chennai Super Kings’ Sanju Samson (AP Photo) Sanju Samson’s brief stay at the crease had everything — a life, a warning, and eventually, an inevitable end at the hands of Jasprit Bumrah. It all unfolded in a dramatic second over of the chase. Bumrah, known for his precision, struck immediately. His very first delivery was…
There is something quietly radical about a book that begins not with a theory but with a classroom moment. A student raises his hand and tells a veteran corporate leader, with polite but unmistakable firmness, that everything he just said belongs to a different world. It is an uncomfortable opening. It is also the perfect…
India’s Harleen Deol (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil) NEW DELHI: India-A have announced separate squads for their upcoming tour of England, with Anushka Sharma set to lead the T20 side and Harleen Deol captaining the ODI team. The tour will feature three T20Is starting June 20, followed by three one-day matches from July 1.Anushka Sharma, who recently…
Divers found an unidentified vessel some 300 feet below the surface, its masts still standing and cabin intact, untouched for nearly two centuries. Image Credits: Google Gemini It started with a blip on a screen.In 2017, a fibre-optic cable survey team working in Lake Ontario spotted something strange: a large, unexplained shape sitting on the…
