15 common mistakes that can attract snakes to your yard and garden (AI-generated image) A garden can look perfectly ordinary and still offer a snake almost everything it needs. Tall grass provides cover. A pile of firewood creates a dark place to hide. A bird feeder scattered with seeds can bring mice into the yard,…
Asking what was wrong if a govt provided succour to a deceased’s family, an SC bench agreed to hear an appeal filed by the state govt against the HC order NEW DELHI: Paving the way for Tamil Nadu govt to grant jobs to family members of those who died in the Karur stampede last year,…
(clockwise from top left): Dravid, Yuvraj and Kaif after Jamaica Test; Brian Lara falls; R Ashwin in Kanpur; Mohammed Shami after his wicket of Mark Craig in Kanpur; A picture of All India Cricket side which played first Test in 1932. Ninety-four years after Colonel Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu (CK Nayadu) led a motley crew of…
The two jets were kept at different altitudes and remained safely separated as they passed through the same area. A potential aviation disaster was narrowly avoided near Phoenix after an air traffic controller noticed that two American Airlines jets were operating under the same flight number while approaching and departing the airport at almost the…
Ryanair mocked Argentina with a brutal “we only fly winners” comment after Rodri’s ultra-low-budget flight went viral. Ryanair has joined the growing social-media frenzy around Rodri’s unlikely journey home, turning the Manchester City midfielder’s viral economy-flight appearance into an opportunity for some football banter. After the Spain international was photographed boarding one of its flights…
Festivals can become a fun opportunity to introduce children to entrepreneurship. Encourage them to make greeting cards, small decorations, or other creative items. If appropriate, they can try selling them to neighbours, friends, or family members with parental guidance. The purpose is not to make money. It is to help children understand how an idea…
The earthquake struck offshore in the Flores region An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 struck Indonesia’s Flores region early Saturday, according to United States Geological Survey (USGS).The quake occurred at 3:28 am IST at a depth of 49 km, with its epicentre located at 8.557°S latitude and 121.181°E longitude. The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) initially recorded…
Data will remain confidential, can’t be used for legal evidence, govt benefits or public disclosure NEW DELHI: The second phase of Census 2027 — involving population enumeration — will, for the first time, capture caste “as declared by the respondent” among its 40 fields, which include new ones such as number of bank accounts, place…
Rahul had allegedly described Savarkar as a “receiver of pension from Britishers” and “a servant of Britishers” at a news conference in 2022. Noting that there was no sanction to prosecute leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha Gandhi for his remarks against V D Savarkar, Supreme Court Friday quashed proceedings against him initiated by…
Aishwarya allegedly questioned Savitha’s authority, reminding her that she was an MLA’s daughter and abused her. MANDYA: A woman police sub-inspector has accused Tumkur Rural MLA Suresh Gowda’s daughter Aishwarya of abusing, slapping and obstructing her while she was on crowd-control duty at Aarathi Ukkada Temple in Srirangapatna on Aug 12.SI Savitha told TOI: “She…