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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has granted actor Shruti Haasan protection against the unauthorised use of her identity, directing social media platforms to remove objectionable material that infringes on her dignity and personality rights. The court observed that Haasan had established a “very strong prima facie” case for such protection. Haasan has filed a Rs 15-crore...

Two headlines arrived in the Indian newspapers, in the same week of July 2026. One reported that nearly nine in 10 Indian adults have at least one abnormal blood lipid level. The other announced the United States approval of Lipfendra, or enlicitide, the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor, a potent cholesterol-lowering medicine. When read together, the headlines raise an uncomfortab...

The world is weary of the two ‘forever wars’ but not the two men who started them and who do not seem to know how to end them. The first war has now passed the four-and-a-half-year mark while the second has been on, off and on for six months now but whose effects have spread so much that the world is feeling the pinch as major economies falter even as the cost-of-living and ...

There is hardly an element of surprise in the decision of Madhya Pradesh governor Mangubhai Patel to endorse the state Cabinet’s recommendation against granting permission for the prosecution of minister Kunwar Vijay Shah over his controversial remarks targeting Colonel Sofya Qureshi, the Army spokesperson during Operation Sindoor, as it serves the BJP to attach a religious ...

As the list of survivors of the recent Himalayan tragedy crawls up with painful slowness, and the heavy rain-filled clouds move reluctantly away, people are beginning to ask if there will never be any respite from the tyranny of climate change. Also, will the world unite to save itself?

One hopeful sign is the claim that a Chinese-Tibetan drone has spotted what it ca...