There is fire in you today. You’ll feel braver than usual, maybe even a little reckless if nobody slows you down. Mars increases courage and pushes you towards unusual projects such as quick travel, bold answers or actions you’ve put off. It can be helpful but only if your judgement remains in the driving seat.The…
Jannik Sinner of Italy returns (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) The Times of India at Wimbledon: Jannik Sinner arrived at Wimbledon having left little to chance.After his dramatic collapse in the second-round of the French Open, where he stood on the threshold of victory before melting in the heat, the 24-year-old underwent a battery of tests to…
Half the fun of the Hiran Minar is that nobody quite knows what it was for. If you ask the locals, the going legend is that it was built over the grave of Akbar’s absolute favourite elephant. Some of the old tales even reckon this particular elephant helped giving out imperial justice. During Emperor Akbar’s…
Late spring is the sweet spot for mulching your flower beds, but only once the soil is ready.Image Credits: Google Gemini If you’ve been putting off refreshing the mulch in your garden beds, late spring is certainly one of the better times to do it, but only if you do it right. The desire to…
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Image: Wikipedia) For a lot of people, mathematics is the subject they were glad to leave behind at school. Cold, hard, full of rules and one right answer. So it can come as a surprise that one of the greatest minds who ever lived didn’t merely respect mathematics. He crowned it. Mathematics…
CPI(ML) said Congress didn’t get all of its own votes. NEW DELHI: The CPI(ML) Liberation on Thursday firmly rejected speculation that its legislators had cross-voted in the Jharkhand Rajya Sabha election, asserting that both its MLAs voted for the Congress candidate as decided. The party instead said the election outcome showed that Congress had failed…
Before you hit send: Common emoji mistakes that can lead to misunderstandings in office emails and team chats A manager replies to a completed project with a simple thumbs-up. To some people reading it, that’s a perfectly normal sign-off, quick, clear approval. To others, particularly younger colleagues, it can land as clipped, dismissive, or even…
Apara Ekadashi is one of the Ekadashi’s observed during the month of Jyeshtha. Apara Ekadashi fast is being observed today, May 13, 2026. The fast is broken on the next day, dwadashi tithi of krishna paksha in the month of Jyeshtha. People observe fast starting from Ekadashi tithi or 11th day and break it next…
Picture this: your guests will arrive in 30 minutes, and your toilet is overflowing. The plunger is nowhere in sight. You panic because there is no way a plumber would show up within 30 minutes and get to the bottom of this. What if you could fix it without cancelling your plans or spending hundreds…
Walk into any Indian kitchen and you’ll probably find more than one kind of flour sitting on the shelf. While wheat remains the everyday favourite, millets, gram flour and rice flour have been part of regional cuisines for centuries. Today, as more people pay attention to nutrition, these traditional flours are making a comeback and…
While most coverage of Norway’s Rogfast tunnel focuses on the record it will hold, the world’s longest and deepest undersea road tunnel, the real story engineers are dealing with sits underground, in rock that has spent millions of years being crushed, fractured and folded into some of the most unpredictable terrain along the entire Norwegian…
Some days call for patience and this one is among them. The Moon presses you into your cost zone, whereas Saturn creates stress in your relationships and so small issues can seem larger than they actually are. You may notice money going out faster than it comes in, and that alone can make your mood…
