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Supreme Court to hear Presidential reference on President, Governor’s powers todayThe Supreme Court is all set to hear a Presidential reference today, questioning whether the court can “impose” timelines and prescribe the manner of conduct of Governors and the President while dealing with State Bills sent to them for assent or reserved for consideration.A Constitution Bench comprising Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai, and Justices Surya Kant, Vikram Nath, P.S. Narasimha, and A.S. Chandurkar will hear the matter.Click here to read more

A sweeping cyber espionage operation targeting Microsoft server software compromised about 100 organisations as of the weekend, two of the organisations that helped uncover the campaign said on Monday.Microsoft on Saturday issued an alert about “active attacks” on self-hosted SharePoint servers, which are widely used by organisations to share documents and collaborate within organisations. SharePoint instances run off of Microsoft servers were unaffected.Dubbed a “zero-day” because it leverages a previously undisclosed digital weakness, the hacks allow spies to penetrate vulnerable servers and potentially drop a backdoor to secure continuous access to victim organisations.Vaisha Bernard, the chief hacker at Eye Security,…

Have you been doing any fun travel this summer?Paris with my girlfriends, that was unplanned and so, so fun. And then I’m doing little things, like I could go back home tomorrow, but I’m loving New York so much that I’m extending my time up here and I’m going to go see Death Becomes Her [on Broadway] and eat some food. So yeah, I’m just trying to do little things. Every year I like to do a solo trip, a girls trip, and then a couples trip. So one by one.What are your favorite things to do in New York?I…

Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi has said that Tehran cannot give up on its uranium enrichment programme, which was severely damaged by waves of US and Israeli air strikes last month. “It is now stopped because, yes, damages are serious and severe, but obviously, we cannot give up our enrichment because it is an achievement of our own scientists, and now, more than that, it is a question of national pride,” Araghchi told the US broadcaster Fox News in an interview aired on Monday. Araghchi said at the beginning of the interview that Iran is “open to talks”…

As Ship of Theseus clocks 12 years, director Anand Gandhi talks about the film, how difficult it was to release the film and how he was the one who actually directed Tumbbad. I believe Ship of Theseus endures because the fundamental human questions it explores have remained unchanged for millennia and will likely persist for millennia more: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I headed? What remains of me after death? How do I find or create meaning? These are questions we ask instinctively as children, yet spend lifetimes as philosophers, scientists, and scholars attempting to…

Slowly but surely emerging as one of India’s key players, International Master Divya Deshmukh stunned higher-ranked compatriot Harika Dronavalli 2-0 in the tiebreaks to enter the semifinals of the FIDE World Women’s Chess Cup here.After two uneventful draws in the classical games, the pressure was on Harika in the rapid tiebreaks. Divya capitalised with a determined performance to win the first game, before sealing the match in the second as Harika, in a must-win situation, overpressed in search of a miracle that never came.While Harika has been a semifinalist on three different occasions in a similar format which was then…

Nvidia has told its Chinese customers it has limited supplies of H20 chips, the most powerful AI chip it had been allowed to sell to China under U.S. export restrictions, The Information reported on Saturday. Nvidia said this week that it was planning to resume sales of the H20 chips to China, though under the policy change the U.S. must still approve licenses for the export of the chips. The U.S. government’s April ban on sales of the H20 chips had forced Nvidia to void customer orders and cancel manufacturing capacity it had booked at chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC),…

The killing of a 114-year-old man by a speeding car last week brings back the spotlight on road safety in India, where authorities say accidents kill more than a hundred thousand people every year.

File picture of Gita Gopinath, deputy managing director of the IMF. | Photo Credit: Reuters Gita Gopinath, the No. 2 official at the International Monetary Fund, will leave her post at the end of August to return to Harvard University, the IMF said in a statement on Monday (July 21, 2025).IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will name a successor to Ms. Gopinath in “due course,” the IMF said.Ms. Gopinath joined the fund in 2019 as chief economist — the first woman to serve in that role — and was promoted to first deputy managing director in January 2022.No comment was…

New DelhiJul 22, 2025 07:21 IST First published on: Jul 22, 2025 at 07:17 IST Share Jagdeep Dhankhar’s term as Vice-President, cut short by his surprise resignation from the constitutional post late Monday evening, was marked by controversy as he spoke up against not just the Opposition but also the judiciary on multiple occasions. This followed his term as West Bengal Governor, where he had several run-ins with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government. In 2022, his term as the Rajya Sabha Chairman began on a controversial note during the Winter Session as he called the Supreme Court’s 2015 judgment striking…