June 26, 2026
‘Sooraj Barjatya heroes define green flags’: After ‘Thamma’, Ayushmann Khurrana to play Prem in romantic film, ‘Yeh Prem Mol Liya’

‘Sooraj Barjatya heroes define green flags’: After ‘Thamma’, Ayushmann Khurrana to play Prem in romantic film, ‘Yeh Prem Mol Liya’

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After his enchanting turn in ‘Thamma’, Ayushmann Khurrana is back to charm audiences with a heartfelt performance in Sooraj Barjatya’s ‘Yeh Prem Mol Liya’. Renowned for defying norms, he revels in portraying a gentle hero, a role he believes Barjatya executes with impeccable discipline and narrative flair. Known for constantly reinventing himself, Ayushmann Khurrana has…

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Neha Bhasin talks about her decision to not have her own kids; singer shares, ‘Hum dono ko lagta hai ki hum apni moh-maya…’ | Hindi Movie News

Neha Bhasin talks about her decision to not have her own kids; singer shares, ‘Hum dono ko lagta hai ki hum apni moh-maya…’ | Hindi Movie News

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Singer Neha Bhasin and producer Sameer Uddin revealed their personal choice to remain childfree, emphasizing that legacy isn’t solely biological. They expressed a desire to end worldly attachments with themselves. Bhasin also discussed the unique dynamic of their marriage, where their shared passion for creation takes precedence, yet she feels deeply understood. Singer Neha Bhasin…

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Women’s T20 World Cup warm-up: Bharti Fulmalli fifty, spinners star as India beat West Indies

Women’s T20 World Cup warm-up: Bharti Fulmalli fifty, spinners star as India beat West Indies

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NEW DELHI: Bharti Fulmalli produced an unbeaten half-century while spinners Radha Yadav and Shreyanka Patil shared seven wickets as India began their ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 preparations with a convincing 26-run win over West Indies in a warm-up match in Cardiff on Monday.Fresh from their historic ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup triumph earlier…

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Bank of Baroda sportsperson recruitment 2026: Applications begin April 22; check details here

Bank of Baroda sportsperson recruitment 2026: Applications begin April 22; check details here

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Bank of Baroda sportsperson recruitment 2026: Bank of Baroda has started receiving applications for recruitment of meritorious sportspersons in the clerical cadre.The drive aims to fill positions across disciplines such as cricket, kabaddi, football and table tennis.The selection process will be based on shortlisting followed by field trials, making sports performance the key evaluation criteria….

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3,500 pages, 300 witnesses: Assam SIT submits charge sheet in Zubeen Garg death probe; CM says justice will be delivered

3,500 pages, 300 witnesses: Assam SIT submits charge sheet in Zubeen Garg death probe; CM says justice will be delivered

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Assam Police’s SIT has filed a charge sheet in a Guwahati court regarding the mysterious death of singer Zubeen Garg in Singapore GUWAHATI: Assam Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Friday filed a 3,500 page charge sheet in a Guwahati court in connection with the death of celebrated singer Zubeen Garg, who died under mysterious…

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Dubai traffic alert: Accident on Sheikh Zayed road causes morning delays, Dubai Police urge caution | World News

Dubai traffic alert: Accident on Sheikh Zayed road causes morning delays, Dubai Police urge caution | World News

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Accident sparks heavy delays on Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road / Image Credit: AI-generated Dubai motorists faced a morning of major gridlock on Sunday as a severe accident on Sheikh Zayed Road (SZR) near the Commercial Center Tunnel collided with extensive road closures scheduled for the T100 Triathlon World Championship. The double dose of disruption not…

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Sameer Anjaan SLAMS Gen Z Bollywood music as ‘jarring noise’; says, ‘shor badh gaya hai’

Sameer Anjaan SLAMS Gen Z Bollywood music as ‘jarring noise’; says, ‘shor badh gaya hai’

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Veteran lyricist Sameer Anjaan has criticised the current state of Bollywood music, calling Gen-Z songs “jarring noise.” In a recent interaction, he said excessive sound is overpowering meaningful lyrics, affecting both songs and films. He stressed that music plays a key role in a film’s success and warned that unless balance is restored between melody…

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ATS grilling reveals Bilal Khan’s links with 4,000 Pakistani numbers, regular contact with AQIS handlers in Pakistan | India News

ATS grilling reveals Bilal Khan’s links with 4,000 Pakistani numbers, regular contact with AQIS handlers in Pakistan | India News

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LUCKNOW: In a major revelation during the three-day intensive interrogation of terror suspect Bilal Khan (34) by the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), investigators uncovered that the accused was in touch with nearly 4,000 Pakistani phone numbers and maintained regular communication with Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) handlers based in Pakistan. Bilal was allegedly receiving direct…

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Winter Olympics: Taylor Swift turns narrator for Team USA; introduces Women’s Figure Skating trio with ‘Opalite’ song

Winter Olympics: Taylor Swift turns narrator for Team USA; introduces Women’s Figure Skating trio with ‘Opalite’ song

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Pop superstar Taylor Swift has lent her voice and music to Team USA’s women’s figure skating campaign ahead of their Olympic game. The singer, who dropped the music video of her hit track ‘Opalite’ last week, added the song as a soundtrack to the nearly two-minute clip, released as a primetime teaser.The video spotlights American…

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Anushka Sharma wears Radha Naam Jap counter in her finger during Virat Kohli’s match; fans say “Look how she’s praying for RCB” |

Anushka Sharma wears Radha Naam Jap counter in her finger during Virat Kohli’s match; fans say “Look how she’s praying for RCB” |

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Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma turned cheerleader once again for be Virat Kohli’s big match last night. The actress was seen in her front-row seat leading the cheers for her hubby and his team, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, during their IPL match against the Gujarat Titans. Anushka Sharma spotted with Radha Naam Jap counter ring Besides cheering…

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Hormuz Blockade: Why did Trump ‘fire’ US navy secretary abruptly amid Hormuz blockade? What reports claim

Hormuz Blockade: Why did Trump ‘fire’ US navy secretary abruptly amid Hormuz blockade? What reports claim

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US Navy Secretary John Phelan has been dismissed after months of reported tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg over the Navy’s modernization agenda and shipbuilding priorities, according to US officials.His removal was confirmed in a Pentagon statement posted by spokesman Sean Parnell, who said Hegseth and Feinberg were “grateful…

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IPL 2026: ‘It might happen’- Shane Watson opens up on KKR’s plan to stop Virat Kohli

IPL 2026: ‘It might happen’- Shane Watson opens up on KKR’s plan to stop Virat Kohli

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Virat Kohli (ANI Photo) Kolkata Knight Riders assistant coach Shane Watson admitted his side are hoping for an early mistake from Virat Kohli when KKR face Royal Challengers Bengaluru in a crucial IPL 2026 clash on Wednesday.Kohli has once again been among RCB’s standout performers this season, scoring 379 runs in 11…

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AI-generated representative image BENGALURU: Hallucinated citations in scientific papers have exploded since the rise of AI tools. At least 1,46,932 fabricated references generated by artificial intelligence entered the scientific record in 2025 alone, and the vast majority of those detected in preprints survived peer review into journal articles.That is the central finding of a large-scale study by researchers at Cornell University, UCLA and UC Berkeley, who analysed 111 million citations across 2.5 million research papers published between 2020 and 2025 on arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN and PubMed Central.The study, titled “LLM hallucinations in the wild”, tracked citations whose titles could not be verified against major academic databases including Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and Google Scholar. By comparing post-2022 trends against pre-ChatGPT error baselines, researchers isolated the likely contribution of AI-generated hallucinations to the surge.The numbers are stark. By Aug 2025, hallucinated citation rates had climbed to nearly 2% in SSRN papers, 0.4% in arXiv, 0.3% in PubMed Central and 0.2% in bioRxiv, with monthly fake citation estimates reaching 8,140 in PubMed Central alone.The steepest rise began around mid-2024, roughly 18 months after ChatGPT’s public release, as AI tools evolved from writing assistants into citation-generation engines.The contamination is not concentrated in obviously fraudulent papers. Researchers found that fake references are typically sprinkled sparsely across otherwise legitimate manuscripts, suggesting many researchers are copying AI-generated citations without verifying them.The problem skews toward specific demographics. Authors of hallucinated citations tended to be less experienced, but their output is growing fast, rising 3.13 times faster on SSRN and more than doubling on bioRxiv compared to matched peers by 2025.Solo researchers and small teams were also disproportionately represented. When hallucinated references pointed to real scientists, they disproportionately favoured prominent scholars — those cited had 68.8% more prior publications and 58.3% more citations than average.Existing safeguards are failing. Nearly 78.8% of fake citations passed arXiv moderation, and among bioRxiv preprints later published in PubMed Central-indexed journals, 85.3% of hallucinated references made it into the final published versions.The researchers warn the problem may now be self-reinforcing: as fabricated references embed themselves in open-access repositories and citation databases, future AI models trained on that corpus risk absorbing — and reproducing — the same hallucinations.Study In Lancet Too WarnsIn a separate study titled “Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers” published in the The Lancet, researchers found a sharp rise in fabricated citations in biomedical research papers.The study, conducted by researchers from Columbia University and other institutions, analysed biomedical papers published between 2023 and early 2026. It found more than 4,000 fabricated references embedded across 2,810 peer-reviewed papers.The audit found the rate of fabricated references rose dramatically over the three-year period. In 2023, roughly one in 2,828 papers contained at least one fabricated citation. By 2025, the figure had worsened to one in 458 papers, and by early 2026, it had climbed further to one in 277 papers.One of the most striking examples cited in the study involved a 2025 paper in an open-access oncology journal on ureteroileal surgical techniques. Researchers found that 18 of the paper’s 30 verified references — or 60% — were fabricated.The authors linked the surge partly to widespread adoption of LLMs which are known to “hallucinate” fake citations.Warning that fabricated citations could compromise clinical guidelines and systematic reviews, the researchers urged publishers to introduce automated reference verification systems before papers are accepted for publication. Nearly 98% of the affected papers had not faced any publisher action at the time of the audit, the study noted.About the AuthorChethan KumarChethan Kumar is a Senior Assistant Editor with the Times of India. Aside from specialising in Space & Science, he has reported extensively on varied topics, with special focus on defence, policy and data stories. He has covered multiple elections, too. As a young democracy grows out of adolescence, Chethan feels, there are reels of tales emerging which need to be captured. To do this, he alternates between the mundane goings-on of the Common Man and the wonder-filled worlds of scientists and scamsters, politicians and soldiers. In a career spanning nearly 18 years, he has reported from multiple datelines — Houston, Florida, Kochi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Sriharikota (AP), NH-1 (J&K Highway), New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Raichur, Bhatkal, Mysuru, Chamarajanagar, to name a few — but is based out of Bengaluru, India’s science capital that also hosts the ISRO HQ.Read MoreEnd of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosDelhi CNG Price Raised Again To Rs 83.09/Kg; Total Hike Reaches Rs 6 In 11 DaysKarnataka Power Tussle Returns As Siddaramaiah, DK Shivakumar Reach Delhi For Key Talks12-Year-Old Girl Alleged Rape and Murder Case In J&K, Police Detain Several’Crafted By Iranian Architects’: Iran Takes Swipe At Rubio Over Taj Mahal VisitTMC MP Abhishek Banerjee Under Scrutiny As Kolkata Police Arrive After Property Notice ControversyIndian Army, J&K Police, SDRF Pull Off High-Altitude Rescue After Gulmarg Gondola SnagSupreme Court Refuses To Entertain NGO’s Plea To Clarify Rabid Dogs Euthanasia OrderCockroach Janta Party Founder Abhijeet Dipke Moves Delhi High Court Challenging X Account BlockingKharge Targets Modi-Trump Friendship After Viral Call, Says Both Share “Traits Of Destruction”AIADMK Faces Major Setback As Three MLAs Resign From Shanmugam–Velumani Faction In Tamil Nadu123PhotostoriesThe King of fruits strikes again: 5 incredible health benefits of mango10 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India that deserve a spot on every history and nature lover’s bucket listThe body check: What your sweat smell may reveal about healthWhat happens to your body when you eat mango every dayCannes 2026: How Prajakta Mali brought pure Maharashtrian grace to the red carpet in a stunning blue Nauvari sareeEbola in Europe? 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AI-generated representative image BENGALURU: Hallucinated citations in scientific papers have exploded since the rise of AI tools. At least 1,46,932 fabricated references generated by artificial intelligence entered the scientific record in 2025 alone, and the vast majority of those detected in preprints survived peer review into journal articles.That is the central finding of a large-scale study by researchers at Cornell University, UCLA and UC Berkeley, who analysed 111 million citations across 2.5 million research papers published between 2020 and 2025 on arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN and PubMed Central.The study, titled “LLM hallucinations in the wild”, tracked citations whose titles could not be verified against major academic databases including Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and Google Scholar. By comparing post-2022 trends against pre-ChatGPT error baselines, researchers isolated the likely contribution of AI-generated hallucinations to the surge.The numbers are stark. By Aug 2025, hallucinated citation rates had climbed to nearly 2% in SSRN papers, 0.4% in arXiv, 0.3% in PubMed Central and 0.2% in bioRxiv, with monthly fake citation estimates reaching 8,140 in PubMed Central alone.The steepest rise began around mid-2024, roughly 18 months after ChatGPT’s public release, as AI tools evolved from writing assistants into citation-generation engines.The contamination is not concentrated in obviously fraudulent papers. Researchers found that fake references are typically sprinkled sparsely across otherwise legitimate manuscripts, suggesting many researchers are copying AI-generated citations without verifying them.The problem skews toward specific demographics. Authors of hallucinated citations tended to be less experienced, but their output is growing fast, rising 3.13 times faster on SSRN and more than doubling on bioRxiv compared to matched peers by 2025.Solo researchers and small teams were also disproportionately represented. When hallucinated references pointed to real scientists, they disproportionately favoured prominent scholars — those cited had 68.8% more prior publications and 58.3% more citations than average.Existing safeguards are failing. Nearly 78.8% of fake citations passed arXiv moderation, and among bioRxiv preprints later published in PubMed Central-indexed journals, 85.3% of hallucinated references made it into the final published versions.The researchers warn the problem may now be self-reinforcing: as fabricated references embed themselves in open-access repositories and citation databases, future AI models trained on that corpus risk absorbing — and reproducing — the same hallucinations.Study In Lancet Too WarnsIn a separate study titled “Fabricated citations: an audit across 2·5 million biomedical papers” published in the The Lancet, researchers found a sharp rise in fabricated citations in biomedical research papers.The study, conducted by researchers from Columbia University and other institutions, analysed biomedical papers published between 2023 and early 2026. It found more than 4,000 fabricated references embedded across 2,810 peer-reviewed papers.The audit found the rate of fabricated references rose dramatically over the three-year period. In 2023, roughly one in 2,828 papers contained at least one fabricated citation. By 2025, the figure had worsened to one in 458 papers, and by early 2026, it had climbed further to one in 277 papers.One of the most striking examples cited in the study involved a 2025 paper in an open-access oncology journal on ureteroileal surgical techniques. Researchers found that 18 of the paper’s 30 verified references — or 60% — were fabricated.The authors linked the surge partly to widespread adoption of LLMs which are known to “hallucinate” fake citations.Warning that fabricated citations could compromise clinical guidelines and systematic reviews, the researchers urged publishers to introduce automated reference verification systems before papers are accepted for publication. Nearly 98% of the affected papers had not faced any publisher action at the time of the audit, the study noted.About the AuthorChethan KumarChethan Kumar is a Senior Assistant Editor with the Times of India. Aside from specialising in Space & Science, he has reported extensively on varied topics, with special focus on defence, policy and data stories. He has covered multiple elections, too. As a young democracy grows out of adolescence, Chethan feels, there are reels of tales emerging which need to be captured. To do this, he alternates between the mundane goings-on of the Common Man and the wonder-filled worlds of scientists and scamsters, politicians and soldiers. In a career spanning nearly 18 years, he has reported from multiple datelines — Houston, Florida, Kochi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Sriharikota (AP), NH-1 (J&K Highway), New Delhi, Ahmedabad, Raichur, Bhatkal, Mysuru, Chamarajanagar, to name a few — but is based out of Bengaluru, India’s science capital that also hosts the ISRO HQ.Read MoreEnd of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosDelhi CNG Price Raised Again To Rs 83.09/Kg; Total Hike Reaches Rs 6 In 11 DaysKarnataka Power Tussle Returns As Siddaramaiah, DK Shivakumar Reach Delhi For Key Talks12-Year-Old Girl Alleged Rape and Murder Case In J&K, Police Detain Several’Crafted By Iranian Architects’: Iran Takes Swipe At Rubio Over Taj Mahal VisitTMC MP Abhishek Banerjee Under Scrutiny As Kolkata Police Arrive After Property Notice ControversyIndian Army, J&K Police, SDRF Pull Off High-Altitude Rescue After Gulmarg Gondola SnagSupreme Court Refuses To Entertain NGO’s Plea To Clarify Rabid Dogs Euthanasia OrderCockroach Janta Party Founder Abhijeet Dipke Moves Delhi High Court Challenging X Account BlockingKharge Targets Modi-Trump Friendship After Viral Call, Says Both Share “Traits Of Destruction”AIADMK Faces Major Setback As Three MLAs Resign From Shanmugam–Velumani Faction In Tamil Nadu123PhotostoriesThe King of fruits strikes again: 5 incredible health benefits of mango10 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India that deserve a spot on every history and nature lover’s bucket listThe body check: What your sweat smell may reveal about healthWhat happens to your body when you eat mango every dayCannes 2026: How Prajakta Mali brought pure Maharashtrian grace to the red carpet in a stunning blue Nauvari sareeEbola in Europe? Italy reports 2 suspected cases in Milan — How travelers can protect themselves from infectionThought of the day inspired by the Bhagavad Gita: Silence often reveals what noise cannot10 Ramayana quotes for children that will transform their heart and mindThe continent with only 11 permanent citizens: 10 fascinating facts about AntarcticaMouni Roy signed off Cannes 2026 in a cloud of ruffles, drama, and diva energy123Hot PicksLuka DoncicKerala LSS USS Result Official WebsiteDHSE Kerala plus two resultUPSC prelims 2026Mumbai local train newsIran US TalksFM SitharamanTop Trending007 First Light Minimum RequirementsTMCAmbala Triple MurderCoimbatore Rape MurderCockroach Janta PartyScott RemerNepal Plastic RoadsMegan Thee StallionBandra DemolitionWest Bengal Annapurna Yojana

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AI-generated representative image BENGALURU: Hallucinated citations in scientific papers have exploded since the rise of AI tools. At least 1,46,932 fabricated references generated by artificial intelligence entered the scientific record in 2025 alone, and the vast majority of those detected in preprints survived peer review into journal articles.That is the central finding of a large-scale…

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J&K HC upholds detention of a woman accused of having contact with Lakhvi’s nephew

J&K HC upholds detention of a woman accused of having contact with Lakhvi’s nephew

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SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court upheld on Thursday the detention of a woman under the Public Safety Act. The woman is accused by government of being an “overground worker (OGW) who had close contact with Musaib Lakhvi, the nephew of Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi”, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind and LeT co-founder.Appellant Shaista Maqbool…

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Updated: Mar 11, 2026, 09:31 IST

Updated: Mar 11, 2026, 09:31 IST

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Lakshya Sen (Pic Credit: All India Radio News’s X Handle) NEW DELHI: When Lakshya Sen left for the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2026, he carried the hopes of an entire nation on his shoulders. The expectations were high after his remarkable run in 2022, when he reached the final of the prestigious tournament.The…

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