The week opens on a slightly rough road, Leo, both literally and emotionally. Early days ask you to slow down while commuting, parking, crossing busy streets, or even handling tools and machines at work. A small moment of carelessness can become an avoidable headache. On top of that, a piece of news or a delayed…
Antarctica’s Concordia Station (Image Credit: Wikipedia) While much of the Northern Hemisphere grappled with scorching summer temperatures, the interior of Antarctica was experiencing the opposite extreme. According to LiveScience, citing data from the French Polar Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) and officials at Concordia Research Station, the remote research base recorded a temperature of minus 119.4…
Ajinkya Rahane‘s career will always leave Indian cricket wondering what might have been.On paper, his numbers are respectable rather than extraordinary: an average of 38.46 across 85 Tests, 5,077 runs, twelve hundreds, twenty-six fifties. For most cricketers that would count as an outstanding career. For Rahane it somehow feels short of the mark. The figures…
Few quotes have stood the test of time as powerfully as Martin Luther King Jr.’s words: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Spoken during one of the most turbulent periods in American history, the quote continues to resonate across cultures and…
The Massachusetts project is an example of agrivoltaics, a nascent farming practice that combines agriculture with solar energy generation on the same land. Farmers have relied on sunshine to grow healthy crops for generations. But as they say, excess of anything is bad and with climate change causing hotter summers, longer droughts and erratic weather,…
IGNOU has extended the registration deadline for the July 2026 admission cycle to August 16, providing additional time for candidates to apply for undergraduate, postgraduate, diploma and certificate programmes through ODL and online modes. IGNOU July admissions 2026: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has extended the last date for fresh admissions to the…
CWG 2026: Jaismine Lamboria (Image: ANI) India’s Jaismine Lamboria clinched the women’s 57kg boxing gold medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, defeating Northern Ireland’s Michaela Walsh by a unanimous 5-0 decision in the final.The reigning world champion produced a composed and clinical display against the defending Commonwealth Games champion to secure India’s seventh gold medal…
The week opens on a lighter note, Gemini, and you’ll feel it almost at once. A pressure that has been sitting on your chest begins to lift, especially around work and family responsibilities. If the past few days felt like walking through sticky heat, this week starts with a cooler breeze. Working conditions improve early,…
There was one Rose who was unable to save her lover, and there is one Rose who helped save the lives of 400 people aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship when it struck a giant granite reef, began to flood and tipped on its side.Rose Metcalf was working as a professional dancer aboard the cruise…
Anti-paper leak law gets President’s nod (Representative image) NEW DELHI: The Centre’s tougher anti-paper leak law has officially come into force from Saturday after President Droupadi Murmu gave her assent to the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026, paving the way for stricter punishment, time-bound investigations and fast-track trials in public examination…
Iranian foreign minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi (File photo) Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has warned the UK that its decision to permit the United States to use British military bases for strikes against the Islamic Republic amounts to an “act of aggression,” giving Tehran grounds to invoke its right to “self-defence.”According to Iran’s Press TV,…
Life has a way of teaching difficult lessons. Failures, rejections, broken friendships and unexpected setbacks are all a part of life. Even as parents, it’s impossible to protect children from every difficult lesson. However, what can be done is making children equipped with the emotional and practical skills to handle those challenges with resilience.Here are…
