India and UAE are also evaluating multiple storage arrangements, including commercial models. (AI image) India and the UAE are looking to expedite work on building 30 million barrels of strategic oil reserves. The move comes within weeks of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to UAE where MOUs for this were signed. India, the world’s third-largest consumer…
People tend to admire success from a safe distance, seeing the trophy without ever seeing the years that produced it. David Beckham summed up his own version of that gap plainly. “I have always believed that if you want to achieve anything special in life you have to work, work, and then work some more,”…
“They didn’t really like being in care and I think they just wanted to be home together.” That is how Linda McKelvie explained why her parents, Colin and Claudette Geraghty, quietly left the Melbourne care home they had moved into just days earlier.Married for 65 years, Colin, 89, who has Alzheimer’s disease, and Claudette, 83,…
NTA opens CUET UG subject update facility, deadline for corrections approaches CUET UG subject correction 2026: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has opened a limited correction facility for candidates appearing in the Common University Entrance Test (CUET UG) 2026, allowing updates to previously selected subjects. The one-time window will close tomorrow, with candidates required to…
Paradoxically, some children push limits because they are looking for them. Children test rules not because they want chaos, but because they need to know where the edges are. Firm, calm boundaries can feel comforting to a child. They learn, through repetition, that the world is stable, and that the adults around them can hold…
The US government launched a portal Monday to refund more than $166 billion in revenue from tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump and struck down by the Supreme Court.In February, the conservative-majority high court ruled against a swath of Trump’s tariffs. The decision marked a stinging rebuke of his key economic policy and opened the…
An 11th-century seal once owned by Edward the Confessor has been found again in the French National Archives in Paris. Historians hadn’t seen it for over 40 years. Dr Guilhem Dorandeu, a researcher at the University of Exeter, came across this artefact while examining medieval documents. Dating back to the 1050s, this seal was originally…
Your work is more prominent than it did in the past. Mercury keeps you on your toes and the Moon illuminates your public image, which means those in authority tend to be aware of your actions.There is honour here, but it doesn’t arrive by magic. It comes because you’ve been carrying responsibility, maybe more than…
Dipika Pallikal, the Indian squash icon, has long been the most influential face in Indian sport. A Chennai-based athlete, Pallikal is the first Indian woman to break into the top 10 of the Professional Squash Association (PSA) world rankings in 2012. She also earned the prestigious Arjuna Award in 2012 and the Padma Shri in…
Photo: hdbrosriley / Instagram Some families start their mornings with coffee. This one starts it with cuddles, wagging tails and a little girl who already understands what love looks like.In a home shared by three Golden Retrievers—Riley, Twyla and Bear—and their tiny human sister, mornings follow a ritual so gentle it’s impossible not to smile….
Ex-SNP chief Peter Murrell Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP), has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than £400,000 from the party over a 12-year period, in one of Scotland’s biggest political finance scandals in recent years.Murrell appeared before the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday, where prosecutors said he…
For more than two decades, residents of the small Canadian town of St. Mary’s in Newfoundland and Labrador have lived with an overwhelming smell caused by an abandoned fish sauce factory. The site, once operated by the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company, was left with more than 330,000 gallons (1.25 million litres) of fermenting fish sauce…
