After Hasina’s Delhi address, Indian envoy meets Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi on Monday met Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman in a significant diplomatic engagement between the two neighbours.The meeting came a day after Trivedi held a one-on-one discussion with Bangladesh foreign minister Khalilur Rahman on Sunday, who also…
Ukrainian drones strike civilian targets, major oil refinery At least 12 people were killed and 39 others injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on industrial and civilian targets in Nizhnekamsk, a city in Russia’s Tatarstan region that is home to a major oil refinery, Mayor Radmir Belyayev said on Monday.The region’s oil refinery, one of…
NEW DELHI: The BJP on Sunday turned its guns on the AAP over the CJP protest at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, alleging that the demonstration was a “pet project” of Arvind Kejriwal-led party. The saffron party also alleged that Kejriwal’s party aimed at targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi rather than addressing education reforms or the NEET…
Honeybees can be trained with nothing more than the promise of a sugary reward; they learn to pick out a specific face and keep picking it out later, even when it appears from a slightly different angle or sits among faces they have never encountered before. It is a strange and slightly humbling discovery, not…
Areas once linked to the old city dump were transformed with trees, shrubs and grasses. (Boston preservationa alliance photo) When Boston began work on the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, better known as the Big Dig, in 1991, it was taking on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in the city’s history. The project was planned to…
When it comes to solar panels, they are usually spread across rooftops or open fields where they serve more purposes than just providing energy. But near Chandrasan village in the western Indian state of Gujarat, a roughly 2,460-foot ribbon of panels sits above moving irrigation water, turning an existing canal into both a power site…
Quote of the day by Melinda French Gates Growth rarely feels comfortable while it is actually happening. Learning something new, taking on more responsibility, or simply stepping into an unfamiliar situation tends to bring real uncertainty along with it. Melinda French Gates put a name to that discomfort directly. “When something’s uncomfortable, it means you’re…
Baramati airstrip has a table-top runway Pune: A training aircraft operated by Carver Aviation veered off the runway during a training exercise at the Baramati airstrip on Sunday afternoon. Both occupants of the aircraft were unhurt. Sources said the DGCA will investigate this incident.The incident occurred at 12:36 pm when the four-seater Cessna 172S, bearing…
The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan on August 7, arrives at a moment of profound flux in West Asian geopolitics. Its timing and venue are intriguing. Concluded amid the lingering of the Iran conflict and rapidly shifting regional alignments, the pact declares that an armed attack against any one…
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, but what lies beneath its battered surface is anything but small. Its metallic core stretches out to nearly 85 per cent of the planet’s total radius, leaving behind a rocky shell so thin it barely qualifies as a shell at…