Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Badal meets PM Modi, raising speculation on SAD-BJP alliance

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday, August 7, 2026, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu With Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (August 7, 2026), speculation about the possibility of an alliance between the old partners (SAD-BJP)…

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‘The Odyssey’ Surpasses $1 Billion After Three Weeks

“The Odyssey” has crossed $1 billion in global ticket sales at a mind-boggling pace. After just three weeks of release, Christopher Nolan‘s epic, starring Matt Damon as the Greek king Odysseus, has generated $429.65 million domestically and $578.8 million internationally for a grand total of $1.008 billion. It’s the director’s first movie since 2012’s “The…

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Artificial intelligence in drug discovery — what it is, where we stand and the path forward

Cireşan, D. C., Meier, U., Gambardella, L. M. & Schmidhuber, J. Deep, big, simple neural nets for handwritten digit recognition. Neural Comput. 22, 3207–3220 (2010). Article  PubMed  Google Scholar  Krizhevsky, A., Sutskever, I. & Hinton, G. E. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25 (NIPS 2012) 1097–1105…

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Parliament Monsoon Session Day 15: Congress issues whip, asks MPs to be present in Parliament ‘without fail’ from Monday | India News

Congress leadership advised its allies to make sure that MPs of all parties are present in the House from Monday onwards (File photo) The Congress Parliamentary Party has issued a three-line whip directing all its Lok Sabha MPs to remain present in the House from 11:00 am until adjournment on August 10, 11 and 12,…

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Indian-origin PhD student found dead in California. He was on a solo hike | World News

Vikram Mubayi’s body was recovered on the evening of August 3. (Photo: Reddit/ Sierra Nevada) An Indian-origin PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara has been found dead. Vikram Mubayi – pursuing his doctorate in UCSB’s Department of Chemical Engineering – was on a solo hike in California’s Big Pine Lakes area over…

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Italy, France, Germany battle extreme heat as Europe faces record temperatures

Mist fans at Rome’s Colosseum as Italy issues highest heat alert Italy placed all its major cities under the highest heat alert Thursday as an intense heatwave swept across Europe, setting national temperature records in Austria and Slovakia, fuelling wildfires in France, and disrupting power generation, transport and tourism across the continent.Temperatures climbed above 40°C…

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