More rain likely in Delhi-NCR as IMD issues yellow alert NEW DELHI: Rain lashed parts of Delhi-NCR on Tuesday as the IMD issued a yellow alert for the national capital, with moderate rainfall and thunderstorms likely during the day.The minimum temperature at Safdarjung, the city’s base station, remained slightly below normal, while temperatures at other…
Salima Tete and Harmanpreet Singh (Image credit: Hockey India) The upcoming FIH Men’s and Women’s World Cups in Belgium and the Netherlands will be played under a new three-stage format, making the league phase even more crucial as points earned in the opening round will be carried forward to the next stage. That is, the…
A couple, Margaret and Arthur Thorsborne, travelled north from Queensland’s Gold Coast to Hinchinbrook Island, a place they knew largely through photographs. They would return many times, eventually making the Cardwell area their home and becoming closely associated with its forests, wetlands and wildlife. Among the animals that caught their attention were pied imperial-pigeons, which…
Mukerjee will now succeed Vineet Joshi, who was last month appointed as secretary, Panchayati Raj (File photo) In a late-night order issued Monday, the Union government appointed Deepti Gaur Mukerjee, a 1993-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Madhya Pradesh cadre, as the new Higher Education Secretary. The order came from the Department of…
As we have already discussed that Surya Grahan is going to occur on Wednesday, August 12, 2026. This is for sure that all the astronomers and skywatchres must be excited for this event as they wait for such events for whol year to capture this in their camera. This will be an breathtaking experience for…
When Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft left Pluto behind, its journey was far from over. The probe had already travelled farther than any spacecraft sent specifically to explore Pluto, but it continued into the dark outer reaches of the solar system. On 1 January 2019, New Horizons passed a small object in the Kuiper Belt that…
Nvidia has joined hands with six Wall Street giants to raise over $500 billion to finance the next phase of AI infrastructure. Nvidia is turning to some of the world’s biggest financial groups to help fund the next phase of the artificial intelligence boom. Six Wall Street giants have joined the effort, which could raise…
Don’t bin your old T-shirts: 6 easy DIY ideas to give them a new life There’s always that one drawer, the one crammed with T-shirts too faded, too stretched, or too sentimental to wear out of the house anymore, but somehow still too good to actually throw away. Most of them end up sitting there…
Woman logs onto the census website as her husband holds their daughter while their son plays behind them, in Sydney. (Photo: AP) Australians aged 16 and over are being asked optional questions about their sexual orientation and gender for the first time in the country’s census, after the Labor government reversed an earlier decision to…
(AI-generated image) Anyone who has already received a residential plot under an earlier scheme run by the Noida Authority, Greater Noida Authority, or Yeida will not be eligible for the schemes. The Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) has seen a significant rise in demand for residential plots ever since the commercialisation of Jewar Airport,…
Image credit: Wrestling Federation of India NEW DELHI: Indian wrestling has suffered a doping setback ahead of the Asian Games, with Greco-Roman wrestler Deepanshu provisionally suspended by the National AntiDoping Agency (NADA) after failing an out-of-competition dope test for the prohibited anabolic steroid stanozolol.Deepanshu, who competes in the 130kg category, had won the Asian Games…
Uttar Pradesh’s Social Welfare Department (Samaj Kalyan Vibhag) has released the official timeline for the state’s scholarship scheme for the academic year 2026-27. Registration for Class 9 to 12 students opens today, August 11, 2026.This information comes from two official government orders issued by the department on July 20, 2026. One order covers the Pre-Matric…
