COLOMBO: China has requested permission for a research ship to dock in Sri Lanka, Colombo said Tuesday, following a visit by a spacecraft-tracking vessel last year that sparked security concerns from neighbouring India. Sri Lankan foreign ministry spokeswoman Priyanga Wickramasinghe said Beijing had sought permission for the Shi Yan 6 to dock, but that no…
Resurfaced 3,300-year-old Egyptian document hints at biblical giants being real/ Image: British Museum A 3,300-year-old Egyptian manuscript held by the British Museum has resurfaced at the centre of a renewed debate over whether the Bible’s references to giants were rooted in historical encounters rather than myth. The document, known as Anastasi I, has been in…
A North Carolina mother of three who disappeared just weeks before Christmas in 2001 has been found alive nearly 24 years later, stunning her family and reopening one of the region’s most puzzling missing-person cases. Michele Lyn Hundley Smith, who vanished at the age of 38 after leaving her home in Eden to go shopping,…
The US Department of Justice has announced that it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of Gurmeet Singh, an Indian-origin man who became a naturalised US citizen after hiding a previous conviction for rape.The DOJ said Singh lied about his criminal history when he applied for US citizenship. He had previously kidnapped and sexually assaulted…
US President Joe Biden. (Reuters Photo) WASHINGTON: Democrats face a test of unity in the US House of Representatives on Monday as they begin work on two ambitious spending plans that would devote trillions of dollars to transportation infrastructure and social programs.While centrist Democrats are eager to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill that has…
Karnataka: Devdutt Padikkal (c), Mayank Agarwal, K.L. Rahul, Karun Nair, K.V. Aneesh, R. Smaran, Shreyas Gopal, Kruthik Krishna, Vysakh Vijayakumar, Vidyadhar Patil, Vidwath Kaverappa, Prasidh Krishna, Mohsin Khan, Shikhar Shetty, K.L. Shrijith. Jammu and Kashmir: Paras Dogra (c), Abdul Samad, Shubham Khajuria, Qamran Iqbal, Abid Mushtaq, Vivrant Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Umran Malik, Yudhvir Singh, Auqib…
The Louvre is used to tourists queuing at dawn, not thieves scaling its walls. Yet, on a crisp October morning in Paris, four masked intruders did just that — pulling up beside the Seine, extending a ladder, and slipping through a second-floor window into the Galerie d’Apollon. In under five minutes, they smashed two display…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday asserted that the “INDIA bloc is intact” amid ongoing calls for a leadership change within the alliance.While talking to reporters in Chandigarh, the SP chief slammed critics and said that those who talk about “divide-and-rule politics” must be dealt with very cautiously.“The INDIA alliance is intact…
Stock market today: Nifty50 and BSE Sensex opened in red on Tuesday on weak global cues following fresh tariff threats from US President Donald Trump. While Nifty50 dropped over 100 points, BSE Sensex went below the 83,000 mark. At 9:16 AM, Nifty50 was trading at 25,608.90, down 104 points or 0.40%. BSE Sensex was at…
AP SSC hall tickets 2026: The Board of Secondary Education, Andhra Pradesh is expected to release the AP SSC hall tickets 2026 on the official website at bse.ap.gov.in. Once issued, students will be able to download their admit cards from the official website. The board examinations are scheduled to begin on March 16, 2026. According…
