SC on disqualification petitions against 10 rebel TMC MLAs NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday said it has “every reason to believe” that the West Bengal assembly Speaker is “fully cognisant” of an order fixing a three-month time frame to decide petitions seeking disqualification of MLAs.The observations came from a bench comprising Chief Justice…
Representative Image of a sunflower-inspired cooling system tilting to optimize radiative cooling under direct sunlight (AI Generated Image) Researchers in China have developed a radiative cooling system inspired by the way sunflowers track the sun, with experiments showing a 135% increase in cooling flux at solar noon compared with a fixed horizontal version of the…
Both animals were unharmed but appeared confused in the urban environment. (Representational photo: Pixabay) Yellow-bellied marmots usually live high in the mountains, but two of the large rodents recently turned up far from their usual habitat in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. One was found in San Francisco’s Mission District on September 5, while another…
India’s Rahi Sarnobat competes during the rapid stage of the women’s 25m pistol qualification event. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India were left ruing a costly and extraordinary lapse by experienced shooter Rahi Sarnobat after a rare miss in the women’s 25m pistol team event derailed their medal hopes at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya…
Sam Altman dropped out of Stanford at 19; 21 years later, he returned with a prediction about students graduating into AGI In 2005, Sam Altman left Stanford University at the age of 19 to build a startup. More than two decades later, he returned to the campus as the CEO of OpenAI, with a prediction…
Paul Little was supposed to leave Dallas Center High School in Iowa with his graduating class in 1946. Instead, circumstances at home meant school had to give way to work while he was still a junior. More than eight decades later, the qualification he never received was brought to him at the nursing home where…
MCD offers 75% rebate on regularisation charges ahead of October 31 deadline (representative image) For residents of Delhi’s unauthorised colonies covered under the PM-UDAY scheme, the cost of regularising constructed portions of their homes is set to come down, with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi approving a rebate of up to 75% on applicable charges.The…
AI representation/ChatGPT A child can spend an hour doing maths homework and still repeat the same mistakes the next day. The problem is often not the amount of time spent studying, but what the child does during that time. Maths teacher Ashwini Anand suggests a more practical approach: break practice into small tasks, identify repeated…
Head constable, M Velmurugan, claimed that the chase started at Vilankurichi and he clung on to the SUV till Karumathampatti, which is about 40km away. COIMBATORE: A police head constable foiled an attempt by three smugglers to escape in a gutka-laden sports utility vehicle, by clinging to the top of the vehicle on Avinashi Road…
pc: Connecticut Department of Transportation A ferry has crossed the Connecticut River between Rocky Hill and Glastonbury since 1655, when the service began with a small raft pushed across the river using long poles. Over the centuries, the ferry has changed from horse-powered and steam-driven vessels to its current operation. Today, the three-car Hollister III,…