Housing market gets a confidence boost as RBI keeps repo rate unchanged The Reserve Bank of India’s decision to maintain the benchmark repo rate at 5.25% has been welcomed by real estate industry leaders, who believe that the move will help sustain buyer confidence and support housing demand ahead of the festive season.Announcing its monetary…
Image Credit: Wikipedia & Instagram/ @robbreport Betsey Johnson has spent decades making fashion anything but ordinary. Her bright colours, whimsical prints and playful designs have become her signature, making her one of the industry’s most recognisable names. The home she has now put up for sale, however, tells a very different story. According to an…
Union minister Kiren Rijiju announces special session of Parliament NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday announced that Parliament will convene a three-day special session from August 16 to 18 to consider the Women’s Reservation and Delimitation Bills.He clarified that the special sitting will be separate from the ongoing Monsoon Session, which commenced on…
Representative Image of an underwater archaeological site beneath Dicle Dam Lake (AI-generated image) Beneath the still waters of Dicle Dam Lake in southeastern Turkey, an entire neighbourhood of stone houses, a mosque, a religious school and rock-cut tombs has sat largely undisturbed since the reservoir was filled nearly three decades ago. In recent months, a…
President Donald Trump speaks as FIFA President Gianni Infantino listens at a reception at Trump Tower in New York, Friday, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) US President Donald Trump is reportedly prepared to do “everything possible” to help Gianni Infantino remain FIFA president as the football governing body’s chief faces the biggest leadership crisis…
Representative Image of the newly discovered Demon Cavefish in a dark underwater cave (Image of University of Alabama at Huntsville) For more than three decades, biologists have carried out quarterly surveys of Bobcat Cave in northern Alabama, a site that sits beneath the secured grounds of the US Army’s Redstone Arsenal and is already home…
NEW DELHI: The family of a passenger injured during the Air India Phuket-Delhi turbulence incident has alleged that there was little emergency preparedness after the aircraft landed in Delhi, claiming there were no ambulances on standby, no senior airline officials present and inadequate coordination despite several passengers requiring medical attention.The family also described the turbulence…
Life-size dolls seated in a classroom PC: Fritz Schumann High in the mountains of Shikoku, in Japan’s Tokushima Prefecture, sits Nagoro, a village that once had over 300 residents and now has fewer than 30. What makes Nagoro unusual is not simply its decline, a familiar story across rural Japan, but what one resident chose…
Brock Lesnar. Image via: Getty Images The career of one of the greatest combat sports athletes, Brock Lesnar, has come to an end. The Beast Incarnate wrestled his final match in the main event of SummerSlam 2026 Night 1 and took a major defeat at the hands of Oba Femi. Following the bout, he endorsed…
Representative Image of lush urban greenery shading a busy street in Singapore (AI-generated image) As cities across the tropics search for ways to cope with rising temperatures, Singapore has increasingly turned to a familiar, low-tech solution: trees. A specific figure keeps surfacing in planning documents and public discussion: the claim that shading a street with…