UK’s oldest Indian restaurant Veeraswamy takes Crown Estate to court over eviction. Veeraswamy, the century-old Indian restaurant in the UK, the oldest of all, will be taking the Crown Estate to court this month over its ongoing eviction tussle. Co-owner Ranjit Mathrani said all negotiations with the Crown Estate, the portfolio of King Charles, failed…
Bengal has two poets whose vintage is considered above all others: Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam. Now, with full awareness of the absurdity involved, one may have to add a third name to the footnotes: MD Ahnaf Hossain.Hossain, a Bangladeshi-origin New Yorker, became a social media sensation after his chant: “My mayor’s Muslim, my…
A senior banker with royal links has been arrested in connection with the long-unsolved “Putney Pusher” case, nearly a decade after a woman was shoved into the path of an oncoming bus in London.The 44-year-old man was detained at his £1. 4million home in west London on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm. He is…
TOI correspondent from Washington: There was a time when a presidential evening at the White House meant chamber music, state dinners, and deep conversations about nuclear disarmament and trade deficits. Now it apparently means a UFC fighter grabbing a microphone to thank President Trump for having “the balls to put some sh1t like this on,”…
Indian student Sai Teja battles for life after massive road accident in Alabama. 27-year-old Indian student Sai Teja has been fighting for his life after he received grave injuries in a car accident in Montgomery, Alabama. According to reports, a minor driver rammed into Teja’s car when he was returning from a friend’s graduation ceremony….
In a heroic feat, a man saved a three-year-old girl dangling from a second-floor window in London. He revealed that the cricket skills he learned in India helped him make the life-saving catch.The incident unfolded above a busy shopping street in Ilford, where onlookers watched as the young child clung to a window ledge several…
TOI correspondent from Washington: When Sundar Pichai was studying at Stanford in the 1990s, he once skipped class to go to Las Vegas. When he returned to Stanford to deliver the commencement address on Sunday, some students skipped Sundar Pichai.It was a very Silicon Valley graduation ceremony: the CEO of Google, one of the most…
On a busy day in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, passersby would often spot an elderly man standing quietly outside churches with a plastic cup in his hand. His clothes were worn. His beard was long and white. To many, he looked like a homeless pensioner trying to survive on spare change. Yet there was something unusual…
What if a single immune cell could destroy dozens of others around it simply by exploding like a tiny bomb? That’s exactly what a team of Stanford researchers has discovered while studying planarian flatworms, tiny creatures famous for their extraordinary ability to regrow lost body parts. Scientists have identified a completely new type of immune…
A vast area of Antarctica that should be covered in winter sea ice is instead lying largely exposed to the ocean, alarming scientists and raising fresh concerns about the future of the frozen continent. Satellite observations show that roughly 650,000 square kilometres of sea ice, an area comparable to the size of France, has failed…