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AI-written cookbooks serve up confusion and criticismAI-written cookbooks, such as Teresa J Blair's "The Ultimate Crockpot Cookbook for Beginners," are generating buzz among fans of artificial...
Israeli strike kills another senior Hezbollah commander as diplomats scramble for calm in LebanonA Hezbollah statement identified the killed commander as Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who went by the name “Abu Naameh,” his nom de guerre. A He...
Nirala, Dhoomil, Bachchan, Dinkar: Musings on North Indian non-English writers' pen namesThe takhallus of the North Indian non-English language (male) writer – Nirala, Dhoomil, Bachchan – is so much more than just a nom de plume...
FTX flipped Jane Street's risk obsession. Disaster followed for Bankman-FriedAs the story unspools of the epic collapse of FTX, the $32 billion crypto exchange now in bankruptcy, one of the biggest revelations is tha...
Birju Maharaj 1938-2022: The stealer of sadnessA seasoned dancer puts in gruelling hours of practice so that his body movements flow with the tempo and tenor of the music and story line ...
View: Tech has yet to devise a perpetual motion machine, but Covid has invented a perpetual motion vaccineWhile well-meaning organisations like WHO may wring their hands in hapless dismay at this unending state of affairs, mathematicians and myt...
‘Naming 2 India chiefs Hizbul Mujahideen’s deception plan’Top police officers in J&K and sources in the Central Reserve Police Force told TOI that according to their information, 55-year-old Ashraf...
Buffett theory for 'Elon Tusk' riddle turns out to be total bunkSome of the most entertaining guesses hinged on the chief executive officer changing his name on Twitter to “Elon Tusk,” with an accompanyi...
For Big B, working with Rishi Kapoor after 27 years was like the good ol' daysBachchan plays the role of a 102-year-old man in his latest film '102 Not Out'.
Inside small-town America in the heart of the Wild WestJust a few hours by road from the glitzy strip of Las Vegas, Virginia City is a place you may never see as a typical Indian traveller.
French diplomat Fabrice Etienne pens tale of Raj-era apparitions in KolkataDiplomat by day, moonlighting as a ghostbuster by night, Etienne has penned down his experiences in his released book, "Ghosts of Calcutta".
- The Lingo Of Love
Chaitanya Swarup Swami is singing “Vande Nanda-Kumaram” in raga Kafi. His Swaminarayan sect reveres Krishna as Supreme God so his choice of...
Must not be named?: JK Rowling has a pseudonymRowling wished the secret prevailed a little longer. Her naivety would be forgiven if only she realised that America’s secretive NSA knew i...
Colours of freedomOn Independence Day, Chaiji Jalota gives your columnist a superb composition in the raga Bhairav praising Krishna.She got it from her husba...
- How Bollywood economy has changed over the past decade
Bollywood remains a brutal business; one that doesn't offer any chance for course correction, and where the end for most movies often comes...
- Look who is topping searches!
Google is god of search right? But Yahoo, the erstwhile king of directory searches, is still popular in the US. And it has come out with a ...