No ‘slow encroachment’ by China in Arunachal, report suggests, adding that the Army and ITBP are geared up to monitor and check Chinese activities along the border. NEW DELHI: There is no “slow encroachment” by China into Arunachal Pradesh, new agency ANI reported citing sources on Tuesday. The sources also rejected claims circulating on social…
Highway 1, Australia. Image Credit: Tony Bowden/Wikipedia Australia has the world’s longest national highway, which is a marvelous engineering example known simply as ‘Highway 1.’ Spanning approximately 14,500 kilometres, this massive highway covers around the entire mainland continent like a belt, acting as an important transport base that connects every state capital city from Sydney…
Corporate earnings have consistently surpassed market forecasts, a trend welcomed by investors. US stock market today: Wall Street benchmarks traded close to record levels on Tuesday as investors awaited fresh inflation data, while oil prices remained volatile amid continued uncertainty over when the conflict with Iran would allow crude exports to resume freely.The S&P 500…
West Indies Cricket Team (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: For a team with two ODI World Cup titles, West Indies have found themselves in an unfamiliar position again. The Caribbean side will not qualify automatically for the 2027 World Cup and must now negotiate the qualifying route to make the tournament in South Africa, Zimbabwe and…
President Droupadi Murmu has approved the 2026 amendment extending statutory protection under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act to Vande Mataram. The law now penalises deliberate disruption of the national song’s singing. The story explains the amended provisions, the Home Ministry’s protocols, the song’s historical significance and what students should know about the…
The Delhi High Court has stepped in to protect Janhvi Kapoor from obscene and pornographic material circulating online, while at the same time drawing a line around what can and cannot be removed in the name of personality rights.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani, hearing Kapoor’s plea on Tuesday, passed an interim order directing the removal of…
Golden Emerald Cross From 16th‑Century Shipwreck, PC: Teddy Tucker In 1955, a Bermudian diver named Teddy Tucker pulled a gold cross studded with seven emeralds from the wreck of a sixteenth-century Spanish galleon resting in the reefs off Bermuda. It would go on to be called one of the most valuable single objects ever recovered…
A 48-year-old house help was killed by a speeding BMW car in Delhi. (AI image) NEW DELHI: A 48-year-old woman was killed after she was allegedly hit by a speeding BMW while crossing a road at a zebra crossing in Delhi’s Mehram Nagar on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The driver of the car has been…
NYC First Lady Rama Duwaji is scheduled to visit Syria and Lebanon in September, New York Post reported. NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s wife Rama Duwaji has a trip to Syria and Lebanon on her schedule in September and that has triggered a major row as it is not clear whether she will be accompanied by…
If an MDR is introduced in the future it will only be applicable to a limited category of merchant transactions with the rate being nominal Unified Payments Interface or UPI transactions have become an important backbone of the digital payments economy in India. With wide adoption and transactions running into several lakh crore every month,…
