Exit polls in India are often treated as an election-night tamasha. This is not the case in many developed democracies, where the science and art of studying elections is becoming more refined and rigorous with every cycle. When polls fail there, it becomes a national scandal. In the UK, following a series of high-profile failures,…
Reed Hastings, the man who took a small, ordinary annoyance and turned it into a business that made video rentals obsolete. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons We’ve all been there. You return back something a little late, you get hit with a fee that feels wildly out of proportion to the offence, and you spend the…
Happiness is easy to find this day, just like sunshine after two days of cloudy weather. The Moon is your ruler. It is in a favorable place and receives a positive boost from Jupiter So joy won’t appear like work. It just shows up.Good news from children or younger relatives arrives. It may be about…
Jose Ortiz. Image via: Rob Carr/ Getty Images Kentucky Derby 2026 purse numbers tell a story that goes beyond the finish line, and this year’s race proved it once again. Golden Tempo’s dramatic win did not just bring glory at Churchill Downs; it delivered one of the biggest paydays in horse racing. The total purse…
MS Dhoni, Suryakumar Yadav and Rohit Sharma (Image credit: SKY’s X account) NEW DELHI: Just ahead of the IPL 2026 clash between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk, Suryakumar Yadav shared a picture on social media with Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni. He captioned it, “Group DP mil…
A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate employees just to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, as authorities juggle the need to stabilise the domestic labour market with a global race to develop AI technologies.The court decided that a tech firm in eastern China had illegally fired one of its workers after he refused…
I remember running down the stairs in my aunt’s house as fast as I could; the counting was getting faster, signalling that the end was nigh. We were playing hide and seek, and it was my older, bigger, faster cousin’s turn to find me. I ran past the courtyard, staying close to the wall to…
Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales watched a seven-step review process collapse and gave the world a free encyclopedia. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons If you’ve ever fallen down a Wikipedia rabbit hole at 2 a.m, starting with with the Bermuda Triangle and somehow ending up on the page for the 1987 World Snooker Championship, then you’ve…
This day asks for effort, not shortcuts. Saturn pushes you to work harder for your targets, and while it may feel unfair, it also gives results you can trust. Put your head down and do the job.Courage helps. You’ll notice that once you start, momentum builds. A tough phone call, a delayed task, or a…
Jose Ortiz with Golden Tempo. Image via: Rob Carr/ Getty Images Kentucky Derby 2026 results delivered a finish few saw coming, as Golden Tempo stormed from the back of the field to win the 152nd Run for the Roses at Churchill Downs. The colt, sent off at 23-1, looked out of contention for most of…