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PV Sindhu (Photo by @BAI_Media on X) PV Sindhu has reacted to the unusual but detailed preparations being made to keep animals away from the BWF World Championships in New Delhi.The tournament begins on August 17, with organisers taking extra precautions after pigeons and a monkey disrupted the India Open earlier this year.Organisers have even hired four men who can imitate langur calls to scare monkeys away.”You can laugh at the solution, but you have to love the effort,” PV Sindhu wrote on X.”So many people are working behind the scenes to make sure India is ready to welcome the…

Michael Jordan (Image: Wikipedia) Great achievements rarely happen by accident. Behind almost every extraordinary success sits a long stretch of discipline, sacrifice and genuine commitment. Michael Jordan captured exactly that relationship with basketball in a single striking comparison. “The game is my wife,” he said. “It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.” For Jordan, basketball was never simply a job or a route to fame. It asked for real dedication, and in return it gave him something worth just as much, a lesson he returned to repeatedly across a career defined by an unusually…

There is a new parenting worry quietly making its way into homes: What happens when our children grow up with a machine that can answer almost everything? A child has a question? Ask AI. Homework problem? Ask AI. Don’t know why the moon changes shape? Ask AI. What if one of the most important things you teach your child in the age of AI is something that has nothing to do with technology?The best thing a parent can teach a child in the age of AI is the ability to pause, observe and think before looking for an answer.28 Jul…

SC declines plea for monitoring religious education institutions for children under 14 The Supreme Court on Monday, August 10, refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking directions for the registration, recognition, and monitoring of institutions that provide secular education or religious instruction to children below the age of 14.The petition was filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. It sought a regulatory mechanism for institutions that, according to the petitioner, impart religious instruction to young children without adequate registration or state supervision.The Supreme Court’s decision means that the wider issues raised in the petition were not…

‘Madhuri Dixit got married!’: IAS officer Tukaram Mundhe recalls friend’s ‘heartbreak’ over Madhuri’s marriage to Dr Shriram Nene during UPSC days IAS officer and Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe recently opened up about an unusual memory from the years he spent preparing for the UPSC Civil Services examination. During an open interview titled Unstoppable Tukaram at Pune’s Balgandharva Rangmandir, the bureaucrat recalled how his friend Pankaj, who later became a Customs Commissioner, once left him worried by suddenly bursting into tears after learning about Bollywood star Madhuri Dixit’s marriage to Dr Shriram Nene.The incident took place around…

Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff during a football practice match in Mumbai. (PTI Photo) Bollywood actor Tiger Shroff said on Sunday that he will not play for Mumbai FC in the ongoing Durand Cup 2026.Shroff was included in Mumbai FC’s squad for the tournament on July 28, leading to speculation that he could make his competitive debut for the club. However, he confirmed that a last-minute work commitment will prevent him from travelling to Shillong for Mumbai FC’s next match.The club’s co-owner Zoheb Amrani had earlier said Shroff could feature in at least one of Mumbai FC’s group-stage matches in Shillong.In…

British couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman. British couple Craig and Lindsay Foreman, jailed in Iran on espionage charges they deny, have ended their hunger strike after 93 and 84 days respectively, the BBC reported.The couple, from East Sussex, were arrested in January 2025 while travelling through Iran on motorcycles as part of a journey from Europe to Australia. They were sentenced to 10 years in prison in February after being convicted of espionage.Protest over prison conditionsThe Foremans began their hunger strike in May after Iranian prison authorities stopped them from contacting their families. Their relatives said the protest was also…

₹2.5 lakh deposit, ₹40,000 rent and more Moving to a new city can look simple from the outside. Find a house, shift your things, and get on with life. But once the move actually begins, there are several smaller decisions and payments that come along with it. For one marketing professional, a recent relocation from Gurgaon to Bengaluru turned into an experience worth documenting after he added up what it took to get his new home ready.Shantanu Jain shared the experience in an Instagram video, where he spoke about the costs he faced during the move and the things he…

Just three days before the math Olympiad, he was hospitalised. What happened next made his family emotional (Photo: tienphong.vn) For most students, falling ill just days before an important examination would mean staying home, resting and putting the competition aside.For sixth-grader Mai Ngoc Duy of Tran My Ninh Secondary School in Thanh Hoa, the situation was very different.Just three days before the final of the 2026 AIMO International Mathematical Olympiad, Duy suddenly developed health problems and was admitted to hospital.After months of preparation, the timing could hardly have been worse.Yet Duy did not want to give up his chance to…

A fresh internal dispute has emerged within the Cine and TV Artistes Association (CINTAA), with eight executive committee members resigning from both their positions and the committee, citing an alleged loss of confidence in the organisation’s current leadership. The members have also called for new elections. Amid the escalating disagreement, CINTAA president Poonam Dhillon has hit back at the allegations, describing the claims directed at her and senior vice-president Padmini Kolhapure as “deeply offensive.”The dispute came to the forefront after eight executive committee members submitted a joint resignation letter. In the letter, they alleged that the association’s functioning had increasingly…