Heeding appeals from clerics, community leaders and imams, Muslim youths largely stayed away from the maiden protest of the nascent Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) on June 6 at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Staying away from this highly-publicised and widely covered meeting of an outfit created in the backdrop of paper leaks of NEET and…
Coco Chanel is an iconic fashion designer credited to have created the casual chic style “Fashion changes, but style endures.” – Coco Chanel Some fashion trends last for years. Others seem to disappear almost as soon as they arrive.One month, everyone is wearing the same kind of shoes. Then it’s a different jacket, a different…
ICC chairperson Jay Shah (left), and Men’s ODI World Cup trophy Cricket Scotland and the Royal Dutch Cricket Association (KNCB) on Monday criticised the International Cricket Council’s recent changes to the qualification pathway and format for the Men’s 50-over World Cup.The two European Associate Member boards said they were disappointed that the ICC had made…
A young man, distraught after his wife eloped, was rescued from the Dadhichi Bridge in Ahmedabad. AHMEDABAD: A 25-year-old man from Surendranagar was rescued after he climbed the railing of Dadhichi Bridge on Friday afternoon and allegedly tried to jump into the river. He was reportedly distressed after his wife eloped with another man.Congress MLA…
Pernem alone accounts for just over 51% of area proposed for conversion Panaji: More than half of the 71,861sqm of land proposed for conversion to settlement zone under the latest set of applications processed under Section 39A of the Goa Town and Country Planning Act is concentrated in Pernem taluka, underscoring the continuing development pressure…
Indian space programme (representative image) BENGALURU: August 23, 2023, gave India an image it had waited decades to see: a spacecraft settling on the Moon, its lander and rover beginning work near the lunar south polar region. But the significance of Chandrayaan-3 was perhaps easier to understand if one looked backwards.Six decades earlier, India was…
The cost of private education in the UK is rising sharply, with a full day-school journey now costing more than £216,000 on average. Higher taxes, staffing expenses and inflation are intensifying the burden on families. For families opting for independent education in the UK, the financial commitment is no longer confined to an annual school-fee…
Breeding scheme to produce backcross males and (b) possible inheritance patterns of self-sacrificial mating traits. Credit: Biology Letters (2026) Male Australian redback spiders perform an acrobatic somersault during mating that sends their abdomen directly toward the female’s fangs. Scientists have now found that this deadly self-sacrifice behavior comes from a surprisingly simple genetic region.In a…
It was an ordinary walk home from school in Tiruvannamalai, a small temple town in Tamil Nadu. Vinisha Umashankar was 12 years old. She was walking past a street ironing vendor, the kind of vendor most people walk past every day without a second thought, when she noticed something that stopped her completely. The vendor…
In the sun-drenched hills of Andalusia, Spain, an unlikely team of firefighters is making headlines. They don’t carry hoses, wear helmets, or race to blazes in red trucks. Instead, they have four legs, long ears and a simple mission: eat grass. Meet the “firefighting donkeys” of Doñana National Park, a group of 18 rescued animals…
