KOLKATA/SILIGURI: For decades, at the break of dawn, Makhanlal Sarkar would leave his modest home in Surya Sen Park Colony in Siliguri in ‘khadi’ shorts, RSS belt and boots for organisational work. At 97, the lifelong swayamsevak and grassroots political worker has received what many in his locality dub as the recognition of a lifetime…
Purple potato grown in microgravity aboard ISS. A strange, tentacled object floating aboard the International Space Station recently sent the internet into a frenzy, with many mistaking it for something straight out of a science fiction film. The eerie, purple, egg-shaped form with tendril-like growths quickly went viral, prompting reactions ranging from curiosity to outright…
LSG’s strategic advisor Kane Williamson (left) and global director of cricket Tom Moody during an interaction with TOI in Lucknow Tom Moody, TOI’s joint Sports Guest Editor, feels ‘a blanket approach is as reckless as a reckless approach’. The Lucknow Super Giants think-tank gets together to discuss the challenges and rewards of the IPL…LUCKNOW: They…
Saif Ali Khan reveals he wasn’t the first choice for ‘Cocktail’; feels Ranbir Kapoor and Imran Khan rejected it for THIS reason As ‘Cocktail 2’, starring Shahid Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna, and Kriti Sanon, hits theatres, fans of the franchise can’t help but look back fondly at the original 2012 film featuring Saif Ali Khan, Deepika…
Actress Jessica Biel has taken to social media to confront a troubling new trend known as the ‘Jessica Tantrum.’ It seems some parents are yelling ‘Jessica’ at their tantruming toddlers to calm them down. In her heartfelt message, Biel expressed her worry about the fear this instills in young children, suggesting that they appear ‘petrified….
Food delivery and quick commerce services provider Swiggy Ltd. reported results after market closing on Friday, May 8, which saw its losses narrow on a year-on-year basis, but a selective expansion of its dark store network for the quick-commerce business. For the March quarter, Swiggy reported a net loss of ₹800 crore, compared to a…
Google has unveiled its latest Tensor Processing Units – the TPU 8i and TPU 8t – designed specifically for the “Agentic Era”, at Google Cloud Next 2026. By optimising these chips for autonomous AI agents that perform complex tasks on a user’s behalf, Google is sending a clear message to Nvidia: it is challenging their…
President Donald Trump announced that China has agreed to purchase 200 Boeing Co. aircraft in a multibillion-dollar deal that would be the country’s first acquisition of commercial aircraft manufactured in the United States in almost ten years. However, the 500 737 Max and other widebody aircraft that Chinese airlines were anticipated to purchase at the…
Bengaluru: Swiggy cofounder Nandan Reddy has stepped down from the company’s board and will exit the firm to pursue independent projects, marking a key founding-level transition at the listed food delivery and quick commerce platform.The company disclosed in a stock exchange filing on Friday that Reddy is “stepping down from his board position and moving…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves premarket: Nike — The athletic apparel stock slumped 10% after its North American revenue came in at $5.03 billion, while analysts surveyed by LSEG had expected $5.04 billion. However, Nike posted fiscal third-quarter earnings of 35 cents per share and $11.28 billion in revenue. That exceeded the…
