When Keir Starmer was just the lowly leader of the opposition, he made one of his themes “sticking-plaster politics”. It was a critique of the way that Westminster tends to focus intensely on something for a short while, before flitting off to another crisis and solving nothing along the way. It made a lot of … Read more
I know what you’re thinking: “Whatever happened to sexy tyre calendars? I really miss those.” You’re in luck. The 2025 Pirelli calendar has been shot ultra-sexy, with tasteful nudity/near-nudity again. This is after the Italian company spent years reacting to #MeToo and accusations of pandering to the male gaze by shooting clothed campaigns. Annie Leibovitz was … Read more
Cognizant annually hires fresh engineers and non-engineering/IT graduates for varied roles. (Photo: Cognizant) 4 min read Last Updated : Aug 18 2024 | 12:29 PM IST Facing social media backlash over the Rs 2.52 lakh annual salary offer for freshers, IT giant Cognizant on Sunday said it offers Rs 4-12 lakh salary to fresh … Read more
I’ve been half-planning a party. It takes a while to commit, for me – I need a bit of a run-up, four or five conversations just before sleep, two or three reasons to celebrate, the casual dangling of the possibility to a handful of friends, before I set a date and make a playlist and … Read more
Jude Wall Photographer Jude Wall has so far visited 15 sites where murdered women have been buried in shallow graves In the year Sarah Everard was abducted, raped and murdered by a serving police officer, at least 146 other women in the UK were killed by men – but how many of their names could … Read more
Jim Smith Jim Smith started playing the bagpipes when he was 12 Jim Smith has played the bagpipes for more than 60 years but when he was told he would have to have all his teeth removed he thought his lifelong obsession was over. “Bagpipes are what I live for,” says Jim, who started learning … Read more
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip: An Israel airstrike in Gaza killed at least 18 people, all from the same family, on Saturday, hours after mediators expressed optimism for an imminent cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas after 10 months of war. A joint statement by mediators the United States, Egypt and Qatar after two days of … Read more
State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation plans to invest Rs 1.7 trillion over the next five years to grow its core oil refining and fuel marketing business as well as in ‘future big bets’ of petrochemicals and green energy, its chairman G Krishnakumar has said. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), currently, owns about 14 per … Read more
Other Dr Tom Gorman says GPs are doing extra work that they are not paid to do GPs in England have launched a work-to-rule action in a dispute with the government over what they say is a lack of funding. It threatens to bring chaos to the system. Surgeries are taking a variety of steps … Read more
In our journey up towards the 11,667-foot-high Razdan pass in the north of Kashmir, we soak ourselves in the breeze that finds a way towards us through the tall deodar trees. The tall deodars, towering mountains, and the deep gorges keep reminding us that we are too small in the bigger scheme of things. We … Read more