The scenes of thespian Sivaji Ganesan pulling a hand-rickshaw in the film Babu (1971) and actor Om Puri wading through knee-deep rainwater with the vehicle in the streets of Kolkata in The City of Joy (1992) testify to forms of labour once prevalent in the country, stripped entirely of human dignity. The present generation in...

2 min readMar 3, 2026 09:19 AM IST The U.S. Treasury Department, State Department and the federal housing agency are terminating all use of Anthropic products, with the State Department saying it will switch to rival OpenAI, after President Donald Trump ordered government agencies to dump Anthropic’s technology, including its Claude platform. Trump on ⁠Friday...

Limited flight operations from parts of the Middle East to India resumed on Tuesday, even as widespread airspace disruptions continued across the region with the Iran-US conflict entering its fourth day. After mass cancellations over the weekend, select relief and scheduled services began operating under restricted conditions, offering partial relief to stranded passengers. IndiGo will...

US embassy in Riyadh. (Screenshot) Two drones struck the US embassy in Riyadh early Tuesday, triggering a small fire and causing minor damage to the building, Saudi authorities said, as Iran continued its wave of retaliatory strikes across the Gulf.In a statement, a spokesperson for Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said preliminary assessments confirmed that the...