Recent Views 5 A bust of former President Benjamin Franklin is pictured near a poster for the Trump Gold Card as President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) President Trump’s decision to impose a $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visas has…
Recent Views 7 NEW DELHI: The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has appointed Alex Marshall, the former head of the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU), as a consultant for one year to oversee its anti-corruption operations, in a move aimed at “enhancing its reputation” after repeated incidents of fixing and integrity breaches in recent years.Go Beyond The…
Recent Views 10 Bengaluru: Bannerughatta Biological Park (BBP) in Bengaluru has imported eight black-capped capuchin monkeys — four male and four female — from South Africa’s Induna Primate and Parrot Park under an animal exchange programme aimed at strengthening conservation and genetic diversity of captive species.The animals arrived at Kempegowda International Airport around 9pm on…
Recent Views 6 The moon has been a symbol of exploration for years. However, now it is not just a symbol of exploration but also a destination for long-term human presence. NASA has just announced its new plan to build a moon base for $20 billion. This is a huge step for space exploration and…
Recent Views 8 India is strengthening its focus on self-reliance and building resilient supply chains to safeguard the country against global disruptions and the weaponisation of trade, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday.Speaking at the curtain-raiser of the CII Partnership Summit to be held in November at Visakhapatnam, Goyal stressed that India’s…
Recent Views 10 The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, has released the round 2 seat allotment result for the Institute of National Importance Combined Entrance Test (INI CET) January 2026 counselling.Candidates who took part in the second round of counselling can now check their allotted institute and subject or specialty on…
Recent Views 10 India’s Aadhaar database has not suffered any breach since its inception, the government told Parliament, underscoring that a multi-layered technology framework continues to safeguard the personal data of over 134 crore Aadhaar holders, ANI reported.In a statement placed in the Lok Sabha, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the Unique…
Recent Views 13 Cambodia on Saturday accused Thailand of continuing air strikes on its territory, hours after US President Donald Trump said the two neighbours had agreed to halt hostilities.“On December 13, 2025, the Thai military used two F-16 fighter jets to drop seven bombs” on multiple targets, the Cambodian defence ministry said through a…
Recent Views 25 BENGALURU: Padma Shri awardee and environmentalist ‘Saalumarada’ Thimmakka passed away at a private hospital on Friday.The 114-year-old environmentalist had been ailing for some time and was hospitalised for treatment, where she passed away, according to family sources.Born on June 30, 1911, Thimmakka earned the title ‘Saalumarada’ for planting 385 banyan trees along…
Recent Views 7 The TOI correspondent from Washington: “I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize,” the comedian Steven Wright once joked. The political satirist PJ O’Rourke reminded us that the Nobel Peace Prize is named after a man (Alfred Bernhard Nobel) who “famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.” Among other putdowns of the…
