IIT Kharagpur assessment flags weak, highly plastic soil and drainage issues as key causes of premature failures on the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway. NEW DELHI: Use of weak and highly plastic soil beneath the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway appears to be one of the main reasons for premature failures (slippage) on one of its stretches, an expert assessment has…
Image credit: Society for Science US high school student Connor Hill won first place at the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS). He has won the award for solving a longstanding problem in geometry involving a class of shapes known as noble polyhedra. His research produced a complete classification of these geometric objects, identifying two…
New Delhi: There was a time when Ashmita Chaliha could only watch while fellow players were training, travelling and discussing their next tournaments.The Assam shuttler was confined to rehabilitation for a career-threatening medial meniscus tear in her right knee that she sustained during the 2024 Korea Open in Aug. She was repeating the same exercises…
What did Braelon Allen fear when he watched Breece Hall go down with a suspected groin injury? (Image via Getty: Braelon Allen and Breece Hall) Braelon Allen is next in line as the starting running back for the New York Jets if their RB1, Breece Hall, misses time.Strained groin injury recovery timeline in NFL running…
Zahra Billoo, CAIR official, called the lawsuit misguided and said the participation of the students in that field trip was voluntary. Two Jewish parents, three former Jewish students, a Hindu parent and a Zoroastrian parent have sued Palo Alto Unified School District and Palo Alto High School principal Brent Kline after the students were encouraged…
From Charles Haley to Von Miller: “Flawed individuals are some of my greatest role models” – Jerry Jones-led Dallas Cowboys’ history of taking chances on controversial stars(Image via X: Charles Haley and Von Miller) Jerry Jones said in Netflix’s America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys that the physical and mental aspects of football are…
NEW DELHI: Centre on Monday said that Elon Musk-owned X will have to “follow the law of the land” after the social media platform introduced a new rule to make government-driven restrictions on content more visible to users.“X will have to follow the law of the land,” the officer told news agency PTI.In a post…
BHOPAL: “Ask him to collect left over of his wife. But tomorrow. Let me die in peace right now,” was the final message of 34-year-old model-turned-actor Twisha Sharma sent to her sister-in-law minutes before she allegedly died by suicide, according to a CBI chargesheet filed in a Bhopal court on Monday.The message, sent to Twisha’s…
In 2013, Chinese man Hu Songwen attracted international attention after reports revealed that he had been using a homemade haemodialysis machine for about 13 years after the cost of hospital treatment exhausted his family’s savings. Hu was diagnosed with uraemia in 1993 while studying at the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, after doctors found that both…
Iranian drones targeted the office of Iraqi Kurdistan PM Masrour Barzani and the residence of the region’s security chief Two drones launched from Iranian territory targeted the office of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and the residence of the region’s security chief early Monday, with no casualties reported, Kurdish authorities said.The strikes…