Harvard University has maintained selective faculty and staff recruitment even after a university-wide hiring freeze was announced in March, according to The Harvard Crimson. President Alan M. Garber ’76 imposed the freeze to preserve “financial flexibility” amid uncertainties over federal funding, including potential cuts to research grants and a proposed endowment tax increase that could…

Sunday Times ‘honours’ the newsmakers who spiced up 2025. We hope the awards are taken in the spirit in which they’re givenChance pe Dance AwardTo Shafali Verma who unexpectedly waltzed into the Women’s T20 World Cup squad as an injury replacement, scored a match-winning 87 runs off 78 balls and took two crucial wickets in…

NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah’s reply to a supporter waiting for his roadshow in poll-bound West Bengal went viral on social media on Thursday, drawing attention to an exchange on Instagram.Shah shared a sunset video on Instagram with the caption, taking a swipe at the ruling TMC, “The sun of the TMC’s corruption…

NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has ordered repolling in 15 polling stations across two constituencies in West Bengal following the second phase of Assembly elections held on April 29. Fresh polling will take place on May 2 between 7 am and 6 pm in South 24 Parganas district, covering 11 booths in Magrahat Paschim and…

NEW DELHI: Lalit Modi on Monday shared a video from Vijay Mallya’s birthday party, where he referred to himself and Mallya as the “two biggest fugitives from India”.The video, posted on Lalit Modi’s Instagram account, shows him posing with Mallya and saying, “We are the two biggest fugitive from India.” Modi captioned the post, “Let…

Photo credit: Agencies An intelligence alert has been issued in Delhi over a possible terror threat near the Red Fort and Chandni Chowk area. PM Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva set a $20 billion bilateral trade target over five years and signed agreements on digital partnership, rare earths, and mining…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (File photo) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday surpassed the record of country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to become the country’s longest-serving elected PM in uninterrupted tenure.As PM Modi completed 4,399 consecutive days in office, leaders from India and around the world congratulated him on the milestone and…