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The poster of the movie ‘My Dear Kuttichathan’ | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives A female superhero film has ticked all the boxes of gripping narrative, critical acclaim and box-office success, a whopping one at that. Starring Kalyani Priyadarshan, Lokah, with its Malayalam original and Tamil, Telugu and Hindi dubbed versions, has set the cash registers ringing in Chennai, rest of Tamil Nadu and India.This is also a time to leap back in history. In the Madras of 1984, India’s first 3D film was released with much fanfare. My Dear Kuttichathan’s initial novelty was centred around its 3D factor and as people thronged…

A team of rural data collectors is helping improve health-seeking behaviour and the health delivery system in Assam’s Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR).Members of the “data dal” (group) are driving community health assessments across 420 Village Council Development Committees spread across five districts of the 8,970 sq. km. BTR, generating vital information to strengthen a localised health strategy, aligned with the National Health Policy.The primary job of these village health volunteers, currently numbering 248, is to jot down general health issues and check if people adhere to routine check-ups, and take medicines and supplements on time. They also mark areas that…

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., talks about the cancel culture that has followed Charlie Kirk’s assassination and what it means for free speech.

FILE PHOTO: Google has announced a new open model called VaultGemma based on recent findings around differential privacy. | Photo Credit: Reuters Google has announced a new open model called VaultGemma based on recent findings around differential privacy. The AI model has 1-billion parameters and is based on the Gemma 2 from Google’s family of small language models. It has been known historically that adding differential privacy to an AI model could prevent it from regurgitating output that is identical to the data it was trained on. This is done by introducing some amount of noise during training. However, adding noise to…

The Faroe Islands is one of our Best Places to Go in 2025. Find our full guide here.When I picked up the keys to my rental car in the Faroe Islands, the agent slid me a contract unlike any I’d seen. No clauses about mileage, no small print on insurance. Instead, it was more of an oath—one that said I was ready to “follow the car’s mysterious path, refrain from rebelling against the GPS overlord, and enjoy the adventure—even if I don’t know where I’m going.”That’s the idea behind the Faroe Islands’ new “self-navigating” car tours, where travelers relinquish control…

China and the Philippines have clashed repeatedly around outcroppings in the South China Sea, which China claims almost in its entirety. File | Photo Credit: REUTERS China’s Coast Guard accused a Philippine ship of deliberately ramming one of its vessels on Tuesday (September 16, 2025) near Scarborough Shoal, a disputed territory that both countries claim in the South China Sea.A Coast Guard statement said more than 10 Philippine government ships coming from various directions entered the waters around the shoal, which is called Huangyan island in Chinese. It said it deployed water cannons against the vessels.The encounter came six days…

New Delhi The station is 215 metres long, 50 metres wide and 15 metres high, comprising 14 lifts and 18 escalators to cater to passengers. A seamless transition from rapid rail to an interstate bus or from Metro to railways is set to become a reality at Sarai Kale Khan, with the inauguration of the Rapid Rail Transit Station (RRTS) this week. It will also mark the first integrated multimodal transport hub in the Capital, officials said. Officials from the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) said the RRTS station here will soon become the largest transit hub of the…

Published on: Sept 15, 2025 05:48 am IST The Bombay High Court has ordered the SRA CEO to explain the classification of private land as slum due to adjoining slum status, after a landowner’s plea. MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court last week directed the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to file an affidavit explaining how privately-owned land could be declared as a slum under the Slum Rehabilitation Act, merely on the ground that the adjoining land has been declared as a slum. It reprimanded the SRA after a subordinate officer submitted the affidavit in the…

Published on: Sept 16, 2025 03:00 pm IST Student groups NSUI and ABVP clashed at Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College on Tuesday, the last day of campaigning for the DUSU elections. Student groups NSUI and ABVP clashed at Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College on Tuesday, the last day of campaigning for the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections. ABVP, NSUI clash at KMC College on final day of DUSU campaigning(Photos: Vipin Kumar/ HT (For representational purposes only) The incident occurred shortly before Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai, who was visiting the campus to campaign for NSUI candidates, was scheduled…

VIJAYAWADA:Andhra Pradesh has embarked on an ambitious mission to eliminate over 1.15 crore metric tonnes of legacy waste by the end of this year, turning reclaimed land into productive use through a circular economy model.Speaking on the second day of the District Collectors’ Conference in Amaravati on Tuesday (September 16),  Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration & Urban Development, S. Suresh Kumar announced that 85.90 lakh metric tonnes of old waste dumps would be cleared by October 2, 2025, and an additional 30 lakh metric tonnes by December 2025. The recovered soil will be processed into compost, while Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF) will…