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All the rage, all the time

India, April 18 -- "That constant 'tick-tick-tick-tick' sound in a quiet room drives me absolutely up the wall." Navneet Kaur, 30, hockey player "Remember how we all had one growing up, which we innoc... Read More


Raiders of the lost art

India, April 18 -- Four minutes. Four thieves. Eight pieces of 19th-century jewellery worth $102 million, gone. The October 2025 heist was the Paris museum's first theft in 27 years. Masked bandits ma... Read More


Top of the food chain

India, April 18 -- It started this way. I went to lunch at Manish Mehrotra's Nisaba. I had not been back since it opened officially, though I had gone for the previews and had confidently predicted th... Read More


Ex-armyman awarded life term for killing son

Agra, April 18 -- A former armyman has been convicted for life for killing his 14-year-old son with his licensed pistol in Agra, in August 2024. Additional district and sessions judge (Court No 01) pa... Read More


Woman bludgeons partner to death at Agra hotel, held

Agra, April 18 -- A man in mid-30s was found dead in a hotel room in the Itora region of Agra district on Friday afternoon. The deceased had checked in the room on Friday morning along with a woman wh... Read More


Man burnt alive on high-tension pole

LUCKNOW, April 18 -- In a shocking incident pointing towards "negligence", a 30-year-old man was electrocuted and burnt alive atop a high-tension electricity pole in UP's Badaun district on Friday. Ar... Read More


JSW One plans $350 mn IPO, pre-IPO round on

bengaluru/mumbai, April 18 -- JSW One Platform, the Sajjan Jindal-led conglomerate's B2B digital marketplace, has held discussions with bankers for an initial public offering (IPO) later this year and... Read More


Carlsen and a bluff: How Indian GM Adhiban's pep talks gave Vaishali the edge at Candidates

Bengaluru, April 18 -- Adhiban Baskaran received a text from R Vaishali the night before she left for Cyprus for the Candidates tournament. It read: "Can we meet Anna?" (elder brother). They hopped on... Read More


'It's clear that at my best I can match the top players'

Bengaluru, April 18 -- R Vaishali is still in disbelief. After a wild fortnight at the Women's Candidates tournament in Cyprus, where the field seemed wide open, the Indian emerged champion. She is on... Read More


A love letter to fish

India, April 18 -- Amitav Ghosh's new novel Ghost- Eye is foremost a love letter to fish - first celebrated in the deepest Bengali sense, culinarily, before being mourned ecologically. In a wealthy, s... Read More