Drone footage captured at Manly Beach in Sydney has documented a rare and potentially dangerous rip current forming close to the shoreline. The footage shows a strong circular motion in the water, where sand and seawater are drawn into a spinning vortex beyond the breaking waves. The event occurred on Monday shortly before midday and…
NEW DELHI: As West Bengal gears up for Assembly elections scheduled on April 23 and April 29, with results due on May 4, the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency has become a crucial electoral battleground, where major parties, particularly the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), are intensifying their campaigns in a bid…
NEW DELHI: Govt on Sunday released a set of frequently asked questions on its bill, now defeated in Parliament, for fast-tracking women’s quota in legislatures with a 50% hike in Lok Sabha seats, as part of its campaign to debunk what it called a ‘false and misleading narrative’ by Congress and its allies. Govt said…
NEW DELHI: Observing that inflationary pressures do not discriminate between a serving employee and a pensioner, hitting the two equally, Supreme Court Friday held that fixing differential rates of enhancement of inflation-linked dearness benefits for the two categories is arbitrary and cannot be allowed. A bench of Justices Manoj Misra and Prasanna B Varale disapproved…
A common kitchen drawer problem is often caused by a thin layer of dust. This dust, a mix of skin cells and cooking oils, sticks to drawer rails due to electrostatic forces. It increases friction, leading to wear and tear. When you have a drawer in your kitchen that will not open, that is one…
NEW DELHI: Several coal-based power plants with a combined capacity of 10 gigawatts (GW) have deferred their scheduled maintenance by three months to meet the country’s electricity demand, while an additional load of up to 27 GW is expected at the distribution level due to the shift towards induction-based cooking amid a squeeze on LPG…
A major development in sustainable architecture has enabled researchers to convert ordinary timber into an advanced thermal reservoir. In this case, lignin is removed from wood through chemical modification and phase change materials are added, giving rise to a new product that has been termed ‘solar battery,’ which stores solar energy collected by a building…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only NASHIK: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Friday clarified that a person who has been “repeatedly” referred to as an HR manager in connection with the Nashik unit controversy is neither an HR manager nor involved in recruitment. “She served as a process associate and held no leadership responsibilities,” the…
A California man posed as a US immigration officer to cheat vulnerable migrants out of large sums of money. He has pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges, reports NBC San Diego.55-year-old Davyd George Brand Jimenez admitted in a Los Angeles court this week that he impersonated an agent from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
Klaudia Zakrzewska (Image Via Getty) A shocking incident early Sunday morning in London has left people disturbed after a car drove into pedestrians outside a nightclub. The crash happened around 4:30 a.m. on Argyll Street near Inca London. Among those injured was social media influencer Klaudia Zakrzewska, known online as Klaudiaglam. Videos from the scene…