Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has found former Tehelka magazine editor Tarun Tejpal guilty of raping a former colleague, overturning his 2021 acquittal in a decade-old sexual assault case. The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court said it was convicting Tejpal under sections of Indian law about rape and sexual harassment, legal website LiveLaw…
Washington: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage crashed into the moon on Wednesday. NASA estimated the impact would create a crater 60 feet across and 12 feet deep. The Falcon 9 rocket left Earth in January of this year. It was carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander. The rocket’s upper stage wasn’t…
Peshawar: The chief minister of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Muhammad Suhail Afridi, announced on Wednesday that supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will march towards Islamabad on September 27, if “justice” is not provided to the party’s founding chairman and incarcerated former prime minister, Imran Khan. Addressing a large public gathering of PTI supporters in…
New Delhi: Africa is India’s partner and its “priority”, and whether one speaks of a multipolar world order or of a reformed multilateralism, it will happen only when the continent is “given its due place”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday. In his address at an event marking Africa Day 2026, Jaishankar said…
Ranchi: Students intensified their protest over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations in Jharkhand with five demonstrators joining an indefinite hunger strike, even as Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday said the question paper leak issues are a national problem and offered talks to resolve the impasse. The protest, which began on July 25 under the…
New Delhi: Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday declared that she is determined to return home in December to put the country on the “right track” by restoring democracy notwithstanding the risk of facing the threat of imprisonment or a death sentence. Hasina made the remarks during an audio-only virtual press conference —…
Shekhar Maramraju Infrastructure is not built overnight. It is the product of vision, policy, execution and sustained political commitment. While roads, railways, ports and power projects invariably take years to complete, there are certain periods in a nation’s history when the pace of development accelerates dramatically. India’s infrastructure story since 2014 is one such chapter….
There is a comforting assumption buried in most retail investing narratives: that the market is, at bottom, an intelligence test. Beat it with enough analysis, enough processing power, enough raw cognitive horsepower, and returns should follow. Three case studies, separated by three centuries, dismantle that assumption completely. Two involve certified geniuses. One involves the most…
“The Earth is my mother and the Rain-bearing Sky is my father” is not merely a poetic expression but the very heartbeat of Vedic civilization. The ancient seers perceived human existence as an inseparable part of the cosmic family. The Earth nourishes every living being with patience, while the life-giving rains sustain every seed, river,…
Lakshmanrao Upadhyayula In this sacred hymn composed by the venerable sage Śaunaka Gṛtsamada in the stately cadence of Jagatī Chandas within the Rigveda, the seer turns his consciousness toward Brahmanaspati, the divine Lord of prayer, sacred utterance, and illumined intelligence. Brahmaṇaspati is the presiding power behind mantra, the force that gives shape to thought, meaning…
