A serviceman with Ukraine’s K-2 brigade prepares a midrange drone before flying it toward Russian positions on the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) The conflict in Ukraine is now nearing the 1,600-day mark. The war has stretched a little longer than the First World War, or the…
Most people dream of slowing down by the time they turn 80. Rabindranath Sarkar doesn’t have that luxury.Every morning, while much of Kolkata is just waking up, he gets behind the wheel of a yellow taxi and heads out onto the city’s busy roads. He’s not chasing a career milestone or trying to stay busy…
Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (File photo) NEW DELHI: AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday criticised the Centre over fuel price, saying petrol prices should have fallen as global crude oil prices have declined.Addressing a presser, the former Delhi chief minister accused the government of allowing oil companies to make excessive profits. “Centre allowing oil…
A 15-year-old Japanese student has been arrested for allegedly launching a cyberattack that disrupted an anime streaming service and caused thousands of users to cancel their subscriptions. Police say the teenager from Saitama Prefecture created a program and used it to interfere with Bandai Channel, a streaming platform operated by Bandai Namco Filmworks. The case…
From Twitter CEO to AI founder: IIT Bombay alumnus Parag Agrawal builds a $2 billion startup after exit For many engineering students, cracking the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is seen as the biggest milestone of their academic journey. But for IIT Bombay alumnus Parag Agrawal, it was only the beginning of a career that would…
When a wildfire is tearing through a conifer forest, the assumption is usually that trees are simply fuel, more vegetation means a bigger, faster moving fire. Two recent studies, one covering the southwestern United States and another examining Canada’s entire boreal forest, suggest that assumption does not hold for every tree species. Aspen, a fast…
Microsoft announced to cut around 4,800 jobs, or about 2.1% of its global workforce earlier this week. As part of the layoffs, the company is offering severance packages to affected employees in the US. According to documents reviewed by Business Insider, the package includes up to 39 weeks of base pay for most employees, depending…
Bumblebees may be carrying a far heavier burden of toxic metals than honeybees, even when both species forage in the same countryside. The research found that pollen collected by bumblebees contained between two and seven times higher concentrations of several harmful metals, including arsenic, chromium, lead and tin, compared with pollen gathered by nearby honeybees….
Bandi Sanjay’s son gets bail: Telangana HC grants relief in POCSO case, orders Rs 1 lakh bond NEW DELHI: The Telangana high court on Thursday granted regular bail to Bandi Bhagirath, the son of union minister of state for home Bandi Sanjay Kumar in a case registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences…
Seaweed is no longer just an aquatic flora, it has now transformed into a nuisance, especially for scientists. Sargassum, a genus of brown macroalgae that was once largely confined to the Sargasso Sea has evolved into the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt that stretches across 5,000 miles. In May alone, scientists detected 37.5 million tons of…