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Farmer, journalist, Jat Mahasabha leader, ABVP and VHP leader, BJP candidate and party spokesperson. Krishan Kumar Janu, 55, has donned many hats in his nearly four-decade political career, during most of which he has been associated with the Sangh in various capacities.But it was for the first time on August 8 that Janu – the surname representing his Jat gotra – hit national headlines after the Rajasthan BJP expelled him for six years for targeting the party over its treatment of former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik and ex-Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, both Jats, in a video that…

Former Gujarat captain and prolific batter Priyank Panchal recently opened up on his decision to retire from all forms of cricket and said, “there is more to life than cricket.” Panchal, who had led India A in the past and featured in the senior squad, announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in May earlier this year. Panchal, who was having an AMA (ask me anything) session with his followers on X (formerly Twitter), replied to a question where he was asked the rationale an early retirement. Panchal wrote, “Every cricketer has two careers – the playing & non-playing…

I still remember visiting one of my dad’s friends when I was a kid. He had a big bungalow, and I was awestruck by his high-end, elaborate home theater setup. This was in the late ’90s. Back then, setups like that were everywhere, even in high-street retail shops in Delhi.Cut to 2025: neither do we have big bungalows anymore, nor do we see home theater systems that require massive space. Today, with compact apartments and space being a luxury in metro cities, Sonos’ Arc Ultra soundbar and Sub 4 seem like the ideal surround sound system for anyone looking to…

Even though I left my job as a Lululemon store educator to become a travel writer years ago, my uniform is still the brand’s comfy, versatile athleisure-inspired clothes. As a travel writer who visits around 10 countries per year, I still rely on Lululemon for much of my wardrobe—the difference now is that I pay full price and have to wait patiently for new product drops. In between trips to Kenya and Poland, I recently curled up on the couch and mined the Lululemon Summer Clothes collection. With more than 500 items available, it’s the mother lode of athleisure apparel…

The Trump administration has warned Harvard University that it could lose control of its lucrative patent portfolio, adding to the ongoing confrontation between the White House and the Ivy League institution, reported The Guardian. In a letter posted online Friday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick accused Harvard of breaching legal and contractual obligations tied to research funded by the federal government. Lutnick said the Commerce Department had initiated a “march-in” process under the Bayh-Dole Act, which allows the government to take ownership of patents or issue new licences if certain requirements are not met. “The Department places immense value on the…

The journey of Sanjay Agarwal, promoter and Managing Director & CEO of AU Small Finance Bank (AU SFB), which got an approval from the RBI to become a universal bank Thursday, entails a story of both resilience and determination that is reflective in the small finance bank’s rising profile. It is the first ‘small finance bank’ to make it to the big league.At the heart of AU’s extraordinary journey is Agarwal, whose story exemplifies India’s enterprise ethos. In 1996, at just 26, the newly qualified Gold-medallist Chartered Accountant from Jaipur, a first-generation entrepreneur and cricket enthusiast, declined a conventional corporate…

The landing marks a successful end to their mission on board the International Space Station to help stranded pilots.Four astronauts have returned to Earth after hurrying to the International Space Station (ISS) five months ago to relieve stranded test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner.Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast on Saturday, a day after departing the orbiting lab.“Welcome home,” SpaceX Mission Control radioed.Splashing down were NASA’s Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov. They launched in March as replacements for the two NASA astronauts assigned to Starliner’s botched demo.Starliner malfunctions…

Nursing students create Rangoli art to spread awareness during Organ Donation Month, organized by the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO) at Super Specialty Hospital Government Medical college, in Jammu on Thursday. | Photo Credit: ANI To address gender imbalance among organ transplant recipients and encourage donations, the National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO) has issued a 10-point advisory stating that women patients and relatives of deceased donors awaiting organ transplants will get priority as beneficiaries.In his recent letter to States and Union Territories, Anil Kumar, director of NOTTO, said that the objective of the inclusions is to…

Capitol Police are among the law enforcement agencies tapped by President Donald Trump on August 7 to increase federal law enforcement presence in Washington DC. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump is directing federal law enforcement agencies to increase the police presence in Washington, D.C., after a former staffer in the Trump administration was injured Sunday in an attempted carjacking. The surge in federal policing in the city began just after midnight on Friday morning and is expected to last seven days, with the option to extend enforcement “as…

Smoke and fire rise from an industrial facility, which, according to the governor of the southern Russian region, was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack, in Saratov, Russia, in this sreengrab obtained from social media video released on August 10, 2025. Social Media via Reuters One person was killed, and several apartments and an industrial facility were damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack on the south Russian region of Saratov, the governor said on Sunday (August 10, 2025).Roman Busargin posted on the Telegram messaging app that residents were evacuated after debris from a destroyed drone damaged three apartments in the…