For decades, Antarctica has been treated as a kind of frozen time capsule, a place where evidence of Earth’s deep past sits preserved, undisturbed, beneath layers of ice that have built up over millions of years. As per the study published in Nature Geoscience, scientists have now uncovered something remarkable within that buried record: an…
A senior bank officer said the account had been put on ‘a debit freeze’ KOLKATA: Former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas – now being probed for last Dec’s “Messigate” at Salt Lake stadium – wrote a letter six days ago to HDFC Bank, asking for the party’s account to be frozen.The letter, to the…
CHENNAI: The wait to see MS Dhoni in action will likely be over next week. According to CSK sources, Dhoni’s rehabilitation is on track and he could be available either for the game against Mumbai Indians on April 23 at the Wankhede or the rescheduled match against Gujarat Titans on April 26 at the MA…
Coal mine blast in Pakistan’s Balochistan (AP photo) At least 34 miners in Pakistan were killed and 10 other remained trapped after a methane gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in Balochistan province on Thursday, as officials told news agency AP.While rescuers continued a race against time to reach those still underground.The explosion took…
NEW DELHI: The eight accused in the Ayodhya Ram Temple donation case may find it tough to find a lawyer for their defence in the local court, news agency PTI reported, citing local legal practitioners.President of the Faizabad Bar Association Kalika Mishra said that a final decision on the unanimous refusal to take up their…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Photo by @BCCI on X) Former India wicketkeeper-batter Parthiv Patel feels young opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi should be ready for more short-pitched bowling as his international career progresses. The teenager, who impressed during IPL 2026, has struggled to make the same impact against England, scoring 14 and 13 in the last two T20Is. England’s…
Amit Malviya (L) said, “The outrage over the Bengal govt’s decision to entrust the midday meal programme to Iskcon is entirely contrived.” Mahua Moitra (R) countered, “Our children don’t like soya. When we serve it in school, they refuse it.” KOLKATA: The Bengal school education department is looking at the Odisha model of paying an…
GUWAHATI: Manipur’s ethnic unrest that began three years ago between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo has now hardened into entrenched hostility, and widened to include Naga groups, particularly in Ukhrul and Kangpokpi districts.The fresh conflict between Tangkhul Naga and Kuki has its roots in Litan in Ukhrul district in Feb this year, when a Tangkhul Naga…
JAMMU: Army troops opened fire after noticing a suspicious movement along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Rajouri district of Jammu & Kashmir on Friday night.“The small arms firing was reported from the Tarkundi forward area around 10 pm on Friday and continued for nearly one-and-a-half hours. However, there were no reports of any…
MUMBAI: Total outward remittances under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) witnessed a contraction in FY26, dropping about 2% to $29 billion from the $29.6 billion recorded in FY25. This downward trajectory highlights that visa restrictions are impacting overseas education spending, which plummeted 20.9% from $2.9 billion to $2.3 billion, alongside a 3.1% dip in international…