Every shipboard food story eventually leads to the drinks that keep the whole operation moving. Navy galley materials list coffee, tea and hot chocolate as standard offerings, and that makes perfect sense on a ship where people may be waking before dawn, standing watch through the night or cycling between fatigue and adrenaline. Coffee and…
Oil prices tumbled over 5% on Monday, falling below the $100 per barrel mark, buoyed by optimism over a potential agreement aimed at ending the US-Iran war. The market reaction came even as US President Donald Trump sought to cool expectations of an imminent breakthrough.At around 7:40 am, WTI Crude was trading at $92.41, down…
NEW DELHI: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar on Tuesday said there were no discussions around Mohammed Shami’s return to Test cricket, adding that the pacer is currently only “ready for T20 cricket” despite playing an entire domestic season.The comments came after the BCCI announced India’s squads for…
The day puts you in the notice of important people. Superiors, bosses, or authority figures may show support, and that can boost your confidence even if you began the morning feeling a little slow. Jupiter helps status matters, while the Moon brings openings through professional circles and side income routes.Yet the emotional picture at home…
People walk past a store of Nykaa, an Indian beauty products retailer, at a mall in New Delhi BENGALURU: Beauty and fashion retailer Nykaa will acquire a 51% stake in premium skincare brand Aminu for up to Rs 32 crore. Meanwhile, its consolidated net profit more than tripled in the June quarter on the back…
Tree ‘Climbing’ Fish of Amazon Imagine you are inside a flooded Amazon rainforest and the water has swallowed the forest floor. You are in a canoe, all you can see is the tops of giant trees and you are in search of stunning insects and wildlife. Suddenly, a loud splash echoes through the silence and…
Solicitor General of India, Tushar Mehta. NEW DELHI: Extraordinary courtroom reverence shown worldwide by lawyers to judges has afflicted some judges with a false sense of divinity, turning a few ‘My Lords’ into bullies, senior advocate and solicitor general Tushar Mehta says in his upcoming book — a take that avoids contempt but may still…
FIDE’s official motto, Gens una sumus (we are one family), was adopted in 1952, almost three decades after the chess governing body was set up in 1924. On its face, the motto carries the naïve idealism of a mid-twentieth-century world recovering from the horrors of the Second World War.A hopeful attempt to frame a centuries-old…
AI generated image used for representational purpose NEW DELHI: The Chhattisgarh high court has held that a wife cannot be denied her claim for stridhan merely because she is unable to produce bills or receipts for the articles, observing that such documents are typically kept by the husband’s family after marriage.A division bench of Justices…
Sixty metres beneath one of southern Africa’s driest landscapes lies a world that seems strangely detached from everything above it. The surface of the Kalahari Desert is defined by heat, sparse vegetation and long stretches of rocky ground, yet hidden underneath part of this vast region is a body of water so large that it…
The Students’ Islamic Organisation of India (SIO) has urged the National Testing Agency (NTA) to postpone the CUET UG 2026 examinations scheduled for May 28, 2026 stating that the date coincides with Eid-ul-Adha celebrations and could create difficulties for candidates appearing for the national-level entrance test.In a memorandum submitted to the examination agency, SIO said…
Banks will be allowed to extend relief measures to borrowers in calamity-hit areas without waiting for individual requests, under revised Reserve Bank of India guidelines that will come into force from July 1, 2026.The RBI on Wednesday issued fresh directions after considering stakeholder feedback on draft norms covering relief measures in areas affected by natural…
