
Headphones, ‘Play Along’, Festival Zone: Chess’s bid to cut ice with spectators
The sport is innovating to involve the element it had long ignored — the viewer

The sport is innovating to involve the element it had long ignored — the viewer

Lower-than-expected IPO valuation and potential future gains made it more lucrative for shareholders to hold onto shares.

Divorce doesn’t end maintenance: Calcutta High Court upholds wife’s monthly claim

‘No legal lineage’: New Calcutta High Court Chief Justice reflects on humble roots

‘Assault on public safety’: Calcutta High Court upholds illegal building convictions
Justice Ravindra Vithalrao Ghuge sworn-in as chief justice of Calcutta High Court

Calcutta High Court orders pension review for clerk over undisclosed rule

Army aspirant denied domicile over missing voter name gets Calcutta High Court relief

Calcutta High Court rejects plea, says marriage-like relationship can attract cruelty
Wall Street s main indexes opened higher on Thursday after Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said he was open to keeping interest rates unchanged this month if data confirms cooling inflation pressures. The Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite all

If you cut me, I won't cry, but I will make your eyes water. What am I? Almost everyone knows the answer to this riddle: an onion
India awaits US tariff advantage for trade deal finalization. The agreement was announced on February 3, 2026, reducing US tariffs on Indian goods
Ride-hailing major Uber is laying off 200-250 employees in India as part of a global restructuring that will see around 3,300 jobs eliminated, people familiar with the matter told ET. This is the second such exercise at Uber India in the past six months
Uber shares rose after the company announced major job cuts. Uber Technologies shares rose about 2.4% in Wednesday morning trading after reports that the company plans to cut around 3,300 jobs, or roughly 10% of its global workforce
Kolkata: Questioning the maintainability of a PIL regarding TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's alleged comments on the murder of a Bangladesh activist, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday observed that public interest litigations were being used as a special tool or w
Passenger vehicle sales in India soared by 35 percent in August, reflecting a thriving automotive market. Leading manufacturers such as Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors, and Mahindra & Mahindra reported exceptional growth, while Hyundai and Kia celebrated record-bre

Nihar Mukherjee is Mamata Banerjee s maternal cousin and a regional Trinamool leader. The body has been sent for an autopsy and an investigation into her death has begun

John Ternus takes over as Apple s new CEO Tuesday, succeeding Tim Cook after his 15-year tenure at the helm, during which he oversaw the Cupertino-based technology giant s rise to become the world s most valuable and influential technology company. Cook announ

Lawyers representing Penguin Random House India flagged changes and deletions from several chapters of Sonia Gandhi s upcoming book, The Indian Express has learnt. They prepared lists that were sent to the author in a back-and-forth lasting at least two months
Microsoft has placed about 500 employees in India on performance improvement plans (PIPs) and Oracle is laying off around 3,000 people in the country as technology companies restructure their workforces and reallocate budgets towards newer areas.Around 2% of M

OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for developers by more than 20% for the next three months, as the ChatGPT maker faces growing competition from Anthropic and Chinese AI models. Here are more details: The price cu
In 1990, Utah wildlife officials took the bold step of using rotenone to eradicate over ninety-nine percent of the fish biomass in the reservoir, which had suffered from invasive species. Once the chemical dissipated, millions of trout were restocked to manage

At 10.30 am on a Monday, a public prosecutor at Delhi s Rouse Avenue Court was in a rush. Hastily adjusting his black blazer, he dashed into one courtroom, only to come out minutes later

The Calcutta High Court has asked the special intensive revision (SIR) appellate tribunal to decide within two weeks an appeal filed by a woman whose name was allegedly deleted from the voter list, after she told the court that the issue was preventing her son

The Calcutta High Court has granted anticipatory bail to a woman teacher accused of pushing a disabled child and allegedly assaulting the child s mother with a knife, noting that the accused was a working woman and directed her to cooperate with the investigat
Nancy Kissinger, the beloved spouse of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, has sadly passed away at the age of 92 in her Connecticut residence. Known for her support during numerous international diplomatic efforts alongside her husband, Nancy's lega

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed a Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) decision to introduce minimum qualifying marks for interviews for recruitment to Assistant Professor posts in state s Government Medical Colleges, observing that the recru

AWS, on Thursday, August 20, announced that OpenAI s flagship AI models GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna are now available on Amazon Bedrock in India with in-country inferencing. Since OpenAI model inference on Amazon Bedrock is processed on AWS infrastructure, organisa
Oracle is allegedly gearing up for a new phase of job cuts, with managers instructed to pinpoint roles for elimination by September 1. This move comes on the heels of sizable workforce reductions and substantial investments in artificial intelligence

The Gauhati High Court allowed a NEET-UG 2026 qualified candidate to make a fresh representation after she missed the deadline for document verification under the ex-serviceman/serving defence personnel quota, allegedly because her remote village had no electr
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Delhi High Court not to grant a stay on any trials of the coal block allocation scam cases and asked the court to decide on the pending appeals of accused within four weeks to ensure their rights are not adversely af

PRAYAGRAJ The Allahabad high court has held that a man who visits a brothel as a customer cannot be prosecuted under Sections 3, 4, 5 and 7 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, merely for paying money for personal gratification. A bench of Justice Ga

MUMBAI: Police have arrested two more individuals in the 10.4-crore INOX Group cheating case, both of them linked to the Boss Scams , where fraudsters have been getting corporate executives to transfer large sums of money from their companies to mule bank acco
New Delhi|Kolkata: China has tightened issuance of business visas to Indian executives to such an extent that even companies with "advanced partnerships" are facing visa denials, forcing them to shift crucial executive meetings to Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia
South Korean and U.S. militaries are shortening their joint drills as requested by the United States

In a setback to the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the TMC, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday refused to give interim relief in a petition against the Assembly Speaker s decision to appoint rival faction leader Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of Opposition (

Getting children to eat healthy food can be frustrating, especially when they are picky eaters and start throwing tantrums at the sight of vegetables. But turning vegetables into a delicious, colourful dish can be an easy way to make them more appealing to lit

In a highly critical surgery, doctors removed over 4,000 stones from the gallbladder of a 41-year-old man at a private hospital in Faridabad, doctors said on Monday. The surgery was performed at Fortis Hospital using advanced minimally invasive techniques, mar
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Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee approached the Calcutta High Court Monday, alleging that his bank accounts have been frozen without any valid reason, just as he prepares to travel abroad for medical treatment. Banerjee s counsel mentioned the mat
Leaving a job after five years can be a big career move, especially when the next role appears to offer a fresh start. But one data engineering professional found themselves back in the job market within weeks of making the switch after the new employer report

Indian Oil Corporation Limited, IOCL, has invited applications for Executive posts. Eligible candidates can apply online through the official website of IOCL at iocl.com
N Chandrasekaran's potential departure highlights board readiness for leadership transitions. Successful leaders often make succession planning more difficult for boards
In September 1857, at the heart of then-colonised India, British soldiers came looking for a rebellion. Inside the Jabalpur residence of Raja Shankar Shah, they found something far less conventional: handwritten verses.The verses were not harmless in the eyes

A dedicated cardiac triage unit at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) has handled 3,049 patients in less than five months since its launch, helping reduce the burden on the main emergency at Nehru Hospital and providing quick

The national capital, like cities and towns across India, erupted in celebration on August 15, 1947. The day s first official ceremony was the swearing-in of Lord Louis Mountbatten as Governor-General, who until the previous night had served as the last Vicero

The investigation into the mysterious death of 30-year-old nurse at Nil Ratan Sircar (NRS) Medical College and Hospital, Rupali Barman, has taken a turn with preliminary post-mortem findings suggesting a possible drug overdose. Police, however, are awaiting de

Observing that even a trespasser is entitled to electricity , the Calcutta High Court set aside a trial court s order and directed the Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) Ltd to grant an electricity connection to a woman within three weeks. The cour
OpenAI is on track to generate annualised revenue of more than $40 billion based on its current performance, according to people familiar with the matter, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 and bolstering the company s plans for a Wall Street d

Three men were executed in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama on Thursday, August 13, marking the first time since 2010 that three inmates were put to death in the United States on the same day. Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, Anthony Darrell Hines and Jeremy Williams w