VARANASI: A 12-year-old Bihar girl allegedly sold by her mother “for Rs 16,000 and 10 saris” to a 40-year-old man from Chandauli in neighbouring UP was repeatedly raped by him after a sham temple marriage, only to be abandoned and preyed on by an auto driver in Varanasi before being rescued.Investigators said Chandauli’s Lahru Yadav…
MUMBAI: After a bull run in the IPO market over the past two years, Indian startups are finding it hard to take the road to Dalal Street. The US-Iran war has thrown a spanner in their IPO plans with many companies delaying listing timelines and going slow on filing draft papers. PhonePe has pressed pause…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (BCCI/IPL Photo) When Rajasthan Royals’ batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi walked out to bat against Mumbai Indians in their must-win IPL 2026 clash at the Wankhede Stadium, expectations were sky high. Fans expected towering sixes, blazing boundaries, a half-century or perhaps even another hundred from the teenage star.But Sooryavanshi endured a rare off day…
BENGALURU: A customer books a cleaner through an app. A worker arrives. But this time, there is a camera strapped to the worker’s head.The image has sparked widespread unease online after on-demand home services startup Pronto confirmed to TOI that a small subset of customers can opt into a programme where household jobs are recorded…
MUMBAI: A proxy advisory firm is pressing India’s central bank to require Tata Sons to go public, arguing that its size and systemic importance demand disclosure standards closer to those applied to major financial institutions rather than those typical of private holding companies.InGovern, in a report titled “Tata Sons: The Listing Imperative,” said that where…
NEW DELHI: With political focus shifting to the battle for Uttar Pradesh, senior Congress member and former MP P L Punia wants the party to immediately start the seat-sharing talks with ally Samajwadi Party. He also wants the party to follow it up with selection of candidates without much delay.Punia told TOI, “There is not…
MUMBAI: IRDAI has asked the non-life industry to come up with a standard definition of claim and a uniform definition of claim settlement ratio for various lines of business. This followed different companies using different definitions for determining claim settlement ratio, a key metric that is an indicator of companies’ financial health and customer satisfaction.Some…
NEW DELHI: India and the US had never been closer, US President Donald Trump told Sergio Gor in the middle of the US Independence Day celebrations, ‘Freedom 250’, attended by secretary of state Marco Rubio and external affairs minister S Jaishankar, and told the ambassador to tell PM Narendra Modi he was “a big fan”….
Suggests Several Researchers Copying Them Without Check BENGALURU: A surge of AI-generated fake citations has entered scientific literature, with a new study estimating that about 1.5 lakh fabricated references slipped into the record in 2025, most moving from preprints into peer-reviewed journals.This is the central finding of a large-scale study by researchers at Cornell University,…
BENGALURU: Six police officers, including a sub-inspector, have been suspended for security lapse during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Art of Living (AOL) Foundation in the Karnataka capital on May 10. The action comes nearly two weeks after explosives were found near Kuppareddy Kere, around 2 km from the AOL centre, along the…