Both flirt with a problematic undercurrent – one that glosses over, if not romanticises, domestic violence KARACHI: Walking into the theatre to see It Ends with Us, I was armed with a zero-expectation policy – a wise choice, considering the book by Colleen Hoover, which I read some odd years ago, already left me feeling […]
Video shows Titanic missing large section of railing It was the image that made the Titanic’s wreck instantly recognisable – the ship’s bow looming out of the darkness of the Atlantic depths. But a new expedition has revealed the effects of slow decay, with a large section of railing now on the sea floor. The […]
The 15-month-old Congress government in Karnataka is tottering under multiple charges of corruption levelled by the opposition BJP, which is ironic since the Congress came to power in 2023 by capitalising on corruption charges against the previous BJP government. While there have been routine charges of corruption such as those relating to bureaucratic transfers and […]
Akhilesh Yadav has the relaxed demeanour of the political giant killer that he proved to be in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. The former Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief knows his place in the sun and shares insights with ease. In contrast, the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh is tied up in knots […]
Two key judgments from the Supreme Court on principles governing bail in money laundering cases have been widely hailed. In the first case, Justices B.R. Gavai and K.V. Viswanathan granted bail to Bharat Rashtra Samithi leader K. Kavitha, jailed since March 15 in the Delhi liquor case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). […]
Amazon’s revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 a month for its new “Remarkable” version of Alexa as it […]
A representational image showing the view of the sea’s surface from below. — Unsplash Scientists have recently discovered a vast ocean concealed beneath the Earth’s crust as an immense reservoir of water, stored in rock known as “ringwoodite”, 400 miles below the surface. Researchers found water stored inside mantle rock in an unconventional sponge-like state […]
In 2017, the Niti Aayog submitted a white paper to then Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu. The paper titled ‘Dispensing with the Railway Budget’ made the case for scrapping a stand-alone Railway Budget. It was an unnecessary practice argued the paper, as neither the size of the Railway Budget, in the context of the full budget outlay, […]
On August 16, the Election Commission of India announced the Assembly election for Jammu and Kashmir, giving people a chance to elect representatives after 10 years. These elections are significant, considering Jammu and Kashmir lost Article 370, its special status and statehood, on August 5, 2019. To understand the mood on the ground, Frontlinespoke to […]
Badger culling will end in England within five years as part of a shift in the fight against bovine tuberculosis, the government said on Friday. As part of the new TB eradication strategy, badgers will be vaccinated instead of killed and work to develop a separate vaccine for livestock will also be stepped up. The […]
