My humour column for ToI. This one is on how the losing candidates in Telangana municipal elections went back door to door demanding that their gifts be returned! The jokes write themselves!

Little coffins for Iranian children who were killed in Minab school strike over the weekend.

This is the most insane and absurd definition of an ‘imminent threat’ I have ever heard in my life. Our ally and proxy, Israel, that we arm and fund, was about to illegally attack Iran so we joined in the attack because that illegal attack would have led to an attack on us

Former Middle East adviser at the US Department of Defense, Jasmine El-Gamal, laying down some uncomfortable truths…..

When Replit CEO Amjad Masad started to speak up about Palestine in 2023, he faced intense backlash in the tech world. Fellow founders stopped inviting him to events and supporting his business, while others called him a “terrorist sympathizer.” Masad joined “Pacific Standard

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right

JUST IN: 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Six suspected insiders made $1.2M betting on a US strike on Iran Most of these wallets: • were funded in the last 24h • specifically bet for February 28 • bought "yes" hours before the strike

Killing children is a war crime. Any children. Any where. Do not kill children. Do not kill children. Fucking don’t kill children.

Hollywood action movies are nervously smoking in the corner: in the Chinese steppes, a chase between two wolves and a rabbit was captured on camera.

This story is actually insane: • dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic • refuses to use the normal app like a peasant • Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller • Claude delivers the goods • pulls an auth

Thousands of crores of taxpayer money literally vanishes into thin air, every year. How? Farmers over-apply 90%-subsidized urea, but crops use less than 1/2. Rest is released into water and air as N2O, a toxic greenhouse gas- 272-times potent than CO2...

By studying samples analyzed by the Curiosity rover, scientists have taken another step toward understanding whether life could have ever existed on Mars. A new study suggests that non-biological sources cannot fully account for the abundance of organic compounds found in a

"America First" 😂😂😂😂

Extremely funny how "the posts were fake" now means they were written by humans and not robots

NSO India unveils the MCP Server for eSankhyiki, enabling seamless integration of official statistics with AI tools. Users can now connect directly to seven official datasets like PLFS, CPI, ASI, IIP, NAS & more through this beta version . Faster insights and smarter analysis

Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year. It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.

I know a lot is going on but not sure it's breaking through that Iran may have killed nearly 37,000 people in a matter of days.

This father was doing all of his legal immigration check-ins and had no criminal record. He’s one of those heroic parents who dedicated his life to taking care of his disabled son, whom he was told would not live past five without a miracle. As his son said, his father was

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I have been posting repeatedly on X about the extraordinarily fast collapse of births across the planet: in rich and poor countries, in fast-growing and slow-growing economies, in religious and secular societies, under right-wing and left-wing governments, with high taxes and