Representative image (AI) NEW DELHI: For many Indians who recovered from COVID-19 during the first wave, the pandemic did not end with a negative test report. A nationwide study has found that fear and stigma followed survivors long after recovery, leading to social exclusion, job loss and psychological distress, while also discouraging people from seeking…
SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Monday successfully launched EOS-N1, along with 14 co-passenger satellites and a capsule into a re-entry trajectory in a marathon mission that lasted 108minutes, marking the space agency’s first mission of 2026. The flight comes months after a rare setback, when PSLV-C61, launched on May 18, 2025, failed…
BENGALURU: When OrbitAid’s 25-kg Ayulsat lifts off aboard Isro’s PSLV-C62 on Monday, it will be carrying more than a technology demonstration. If the mission succeeds as planned, India will take one step forward towards becoming only the second country in the world to have demonstrated on-orbit satellite refuelling, a capability so far claimed only by…
MNS chief Raj Thackeray (ANI photo) NEW DELHI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, who recently forged an alliance with his estranged cousin Uddhav Thackeray ahead of the BMC polls, warned Uttar Pradesh and Bihar migrants against the Hindi imposition. Thackeray said he would “kick” people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh out of Maharashtra…
Mani Shankar Aiyar (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar stirred another row on Sunday after he said Hindutva is “Hinduism in paranoia,” which drew a strong response from the ruling BJP. During the debate on “Hinduism Needs Protection From Hindutva”, hosted by the Calcutta Debating Circle, Aiyar said Hindutva is a BJP…
Rourkela fire units during rescue operations after the 9-seater aircraft crash-landed BHUBANESHWAR: A mid-air electrocution of four passengers and two crew members of an IndiaOne Air plane that force-landed in Odisha’s Rourkela Saturday after engine failure was a big possibility as it had scraped a high-tension wire with exposed landing gear, officials said. The Cessna’s…
BENGALURU: Cognizant is learnt to have secured a deal worth over $1 billion from Swiss pharma major Novartis as part of a consolidation contract that includes renewals as well as new scope spanning application services, infrastructure, data and AI-led offerings, people in the know told TOI. This marks the second consecutive billion-dollar deal for Cognizant…
NEW DELHI: The first impact of the labour codes will be felt in the Dec quarter results with companies making higher provision for gratuity. “Companies will need to update their gratuity liability provisions in line with Ind AS 19, recognising past service liabilities as the new labour codes came into effect on Nov 21, 2025….
AHMEDABAD: Reliance Industries CMD Mukesh Ambani on Sunday hailed India’s resilience amid global uncertainty and said challenges created by this geopolitical situation cannot touch or trouble the country due to the “invincible protective wall called Narendra Modi“.Let the world know that this is India’s defining decade under the PM’s leadership, Ambani asserted while addressing the…
KOLKATA: Election Commission on Sunday approved a proposal by Bengal chief electoral officer Manoj Agarwal to accept tea garden and cinchona plantation records as documents for SIR of electoral rolls for north Bengal districts of Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Alipurduar, North Dinajpur, and South Dinajpur, reports Sarthak G. Tea garden workers do not have…