Anushka Sharma, Virat Kohli, and the Scrutiny of Public Life

The immediate context is that this student had just sat for the exam and was reportedly under serious stress after trying to estimate her score using the answer key that came out online. Family members told the police something heartbreaking. They said she had expected a much higher mark. After seei

He told *El Observador* radio about this on Thursday. There’s no backing down from that tradition. Watching World Cup matches from the presidential residence is just how he does it. He has done it for the entire run leading up to Sunday’s final. A routine, really. There’s another thing he keeps doin

A shirt from one of football’s biggest moments just hit the record books. It sold for four point nine million dollars at auction in the United States this Thursday. It was Pele's jersey. The blue shirt he wore during Brazil’s first FIFA World Cup triumph back in ’58. That piece? It became incredibly

Ranveer Singh seems to be riding something good right now. Professionally, personally. He’s excited about being a dad again. His wife, Deepika Padukone, is pregnant with their second kid. And then there’s the next big thing: *Pralay*. He’s gearing up for that one. Reports say he might start shooting

The Supreme Court weighed in on the three-language policy debate, suggesting a change in timing for introducing an extra language under the CBSE curriculum. It basically said it shouldn't wait until Class 9. Justice B V Nagarathna made this point during a hearing about the Tamil Nadu government’s ch

Anurag Kumar was appointed the next Commissioner of Police in Delhi on Friday. It’s a big leadership shift happening right now. He replaced Satish Golcha. Golcha is leaving the post soon, due to retirement in April 2027, and he was removed from the role prematurely. That sets the stage for this chan

Most people probably just grab a railway towel or blanket and think it’s a free souvenir. But there’s another side to that picture, a cost someone else ends up paying for. A viral clip surfaced recently showing Amit Yadav, an attendant on Indian Railways trains. He handles the distribution and colle

Nitish Kaushal. An Indian-origin gangster. He’s been arrested in the US now. Days after getting added to the FBI's Most Wanted list. That’s where it started. The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced this stuff on Thursday. They said US law enforcement actually took him into custody in Vermont.

That European Commission report just dropped. It paints a really bleak picture of Pakistan’s human rights situation. We’re talking serious stuff: enforced disappearances, restrictions on basic freedoms, problems with the courts, minority rights, and labor protections are all flagged. And here’s the

Lord Krishna Namaz Row. That’s what started it. A controversy blew up after some video surfaced involving cleric Maulana Jarjis Ansari. He allegedly claimed Lord Krishna was Muslim. And that Krishna offered namaz five times a day. It went viral on social media fast. This whole thing immediately trig

Andhra Pradesh is seeing some grim numbers lately. They clocked twelve Covid-19 infections between June 26 and July 16. And four people died from it. That’s what State Health Commissioner G Veerapandian told them on Thursday. Sporadic cases, he said in a release. Twelve people caught the virus in th

The FDA just gave the green light for Lipfendra, which is enlicitide. It’s a big deal because it’s the first time we have a once-daily oral PCSK9 inhibitor available for adults dealing with certain types of high cholesterol. Merck developed this pill. It offers a new route. A way around those pesky

IT stocks generally jumped Thursday after those June-quarter earnings came out. Investors seemed to favor companies that showed better growth, pushing hard on margins and guidance for the ones that fell short. The Nifty IT index ticked up 1.33% in morning trade, hitting 29,103.50. Some large names w

Koel Mallick stepping down from her Rajya Sabha seat without showing up for a single day in Parliament has really stirred things up in West Bengal politics. It’s just… unprecedented stuff, you know? There was chatter immediately about where she might go next. Some folks were talking about joining so

What started so simply. Finding a suspicious pile of cash tucked away in a washroom inside the Ram Mandir complex in Ayodhya. That little discovery snowballed fast into one of the biggest donation theft scandals ever linked to the temple. It’s unbelievable how that happened. A Times of India report