More rain likely in Delhi-NCR as IMD issues yellow alert NEW DELHI: Rain lashed parts of Delhi-NCR on Tuesday as the IMD issued a yellow alert for the national capital, with moderate rainfall and thunderstorms likely during the day.The minimum temperature at Safdarjung, the city’s base station, remained slightly below normal, while temperatures at other…
A couple, Margaret and Arthur Thorsborne, travelled north from Queensland’s Gold Coast to Hinchinbrook Island, a place they knew largely through photographs. They would return many times, eventually making the Cardwell area their home and becoming closely associated with its forests, wetlands and wildlife. Among the animals that caught their attention were pied imperial-pigeons, which…
The densely populated Chinese capital of Beijing braced for the expected onset of more than one-third of its annual rainfall over 24 hours Typhoon Dolphin pushed deeper inland into China’s central Hubei province on Tuesday, prompting the closure of tourist sites and suspension of high-risk construction projects. Forecasts warned of extreme rainfall, with flooding and…
When Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft left Pluto behind, its journey was far from over. The probe had already travelled farther than any spacecraft sent specifically to explore Pluto, but it continued into the dark outer reaches of the solar system. On 1 January 2019, New Horizons passed a small object in the Kuiper Belt that…
File Pic: Luis Suárez, Lionel Messi and Neymar (Getty Image/La Liga) Could one of football’s most iconic attacking trios reunite after almost a decade? Neymar’s uncertain future at Santos has once again put Inter Miami on the radar, opening the possibility of the Brazilian linking up with Lionel Messi and Luis Suárez for one final…
Salima Tete and Harmanpreet Singh (Image credit: Hockey India) The upcoming FIH Men’s and Women’s World Cups in Belgium and the Netherlands will be played under a new three-stage format, making the league phase even more crucial as points earned in the opening round will be carried forward to the next stage. That is, the…
PM Modi, Shah lead NDA’s ‘Mangal Milan’ meet The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Parliamentary Party held its weekly meeting, “Mangal Milan”, at the GMC Balayogi Auditorium in the Parliament Library Building on Tuesday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP national president Nitin Nabin, Union Minister JP Nadda and other NDA leaders…
The Food and Drug Administration suspended a Blinkit dark store licence in Malad West. MUMBAI: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the food licence of Blink Commerce (Blinkit) Pvt Ltd’s dark store in Malad West on the grounds of unhygienic conditions, cockroach infestation, and food safety violations.The action was taken after an inspection…
Don’t bin your old T-shirts: 6 easy DIY ideas to give them a new life There’s always that one drawer, the one crammed with T-shirts too faded, too stretched, or too sentimental to wear out of the house anymore, but somehow still too good to actually throw away. Most of them end up sitting there…
Sonia hails former PM Manmohan Singh after SC clean chit NEW DELHI: Days after the Supreme Court gave former prime minister Manmohan Singh a clean chit in the coal block allocation case, senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday invoked former PM’s legacy and attacked the Narendra Modi government.Sonia said Singh’s record of integrity and…