2026

A recent study has suggested that painted images found on ancient pottery may offer one of the earliest glimpses into how humans first began to think mathematically. The pottery, created up to 8,000 years ago, belongs to the Halafian people who lived in northern Mesopotamia between 6200 BC and 5500 BC. Researchers closely studied bowls…

City first started talks with Guehi, 25, earlier this month following injuries to defenders Josko Gvardiol and Ruben Dias. For Saturday’s defeat at neighbours Manchester United, City fielded an back four containing three players aged 21 or under – Rico Lewis, Abdukodir Khusanov and Max Alleyne – alongside 30-year-old Nathan Ake. Alleyne was replaced at…

The Gurgaon Police on Saturday arrested a 34-year-old man for allegedly posing as a Haryana Police sub-inspector (SI) to avoid paying toll taxes, secure free stays in hotels, and intimidate people by projecting his false authority. Story continues below this ad Police said the accused, Mukesh Kumar, a graduate and resident of Kasni village in…

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Women head into their next Women’s Premier League fixture against Gujarat Giants Women brimming with confidence after an impressive start to the season. RCB remain unbeaten with four consecutive wins, their most recent victory coming by eight wickets against Delhi Capitals, driven by Smriti Mandhana’s superb 96. Their all-round strength has been…

On August 7, at the Congress headquarters in new Delhi, party leader Rahul Gandhi stood in a room filled with cameras and anticipation, holding what he described as proof of India’s gravest democratic crisis. The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha raised a spiral-bound stack of papers, culled from a seven-foot pile of…

Two years ago, when I joined this organisation as a rookie still trying to earn his chops, the idea of devoting an entire column to an unassuming melancholic fantasy anime felt a little absurd. Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe’s lesser-known Japanese series about a couple millenia-old elf processing grief through detours and half-remembered conversations hardly…

While AR Rahman recently admitted that Hindi film projects have slowed down for him over the past eight years, he also pointed out that the last six years have been among the most intense and productive phases of his career. In a recent interview, the composer revealed that between 2019 and 2025, he worked on…

Shifting geopolitical landscape does not mean that the door is shut for Indians aiming for a premium foreign education. | Photo Credit: Freepik Are geopolitical tensions and revised immigration policies forcing Indian students to look beyond the U.K. and the U.S. when it comes to higher studies abroad? There is no single answer to this….

India’s recurring waterborne disease outbreaks are often treated as unfortunate but isolated lapses—local failures caused by ageing pipes, human error, or sudden contamination. The deaths in Indore in early January 2026, expose how misleading that framing is. What unfolded in Bhagirathpura locality was not an accident but the foreseeable consequence of a governance model that…

The Song of the Clay Pot: Sumana Chandrasekhar in conversation with Akhila Krishnamurthy at The Hindu Showplace, Chennai on January 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: M. Srinath Ghatam player, researcher, writer and author of the book ‘Song of the Clay Pot’ Sumana Chandrashekar said here on Sunday that just by virtue of being a ghatam player,…