The Union Cabinet has approved a Rs 37,500 crore scheme to promote coal and lignite gasification projects, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday said, positioning the initiative as a major step towards cleaner coal utilisation, energy security and import substitution.The scheme aims to accelerate the conversion of coal and lignite into synthesis gas, or syngas,…
Police found the four bodies in different parts of the house, including the roof, staircase and under a bed (Image credit: @HinduUnityBD on X) Four members of a Hindu family, including a retired schoolteacher, were found dead inside their locked home in Bangladesh’s Rangpur city under suspicious circumstances, with police investigation under way, as per…
Indian man Chandan Tayal arrested for smuggling cocaine from the US to Canada. An Indian man was arrested with 60 kilos of cocaine at Port Huron in Michigan while he was on his way to cross the border to Canada. Driver Chandan Tayal was stopped by the CBP at the Blue Water Bridge and on…
Indian student shares F-1 student visa rejection experience. An Indian student shared the experience of an F-1 visa denial at the Delhi consulate, at a time when visa officers have become extremely stringent in their approvals. The student, a graduate of 2025, wants to pursue an MS in Computer Science at Columbia University. The interview…
Four breeding seasons after a deadly bird flu outbreak forced a colony of Sandwich Terns to leave their nesting ground, the seabirds have returned in record numbers, creating one of England’s largest breeding sites. Monitoring reports published by Rare Bird Alert confirm that Sandwich Terns (Thalasseus sandvicensis) nested at RSPB Pagham Harbour in West Sussex…
Screenshot from video released by Chinese Navy Beijing: A video released by the Chinese navy highlighting China’s blue-water naval ambitions has sparked speculation that its fourth aircraft carrier currently being built will be a nuclear-powered one. ‘Into The Deep’ was released Wednesday to mark the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army…
Congress on Thursday intensified its offensive over the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram temple in Ayodhya, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of remaining silent even as the BJP-RSS establishment was allegedly trying to protect the “big crocodiles” behind the scandal. The party also raised questions over alleged irregularities in land purchases and construction…
Meta’s highest paid employee Alexandr Wang recently shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) taunting Google’s Gemini model. Wang was responding to a leaderboard shared by an X user – Tae Kim depicting Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 outperforming the world’s biggest internet company’s latest AI model – Gemini 3.6 Flash. “Google getting beaten by @alexandr_wang…
Telangana CM Revanth Reddy (File photo) NEW DELHI: Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy on Monday accused the Centre of “insulting” 4 crore people of the state by declining permission for his visit to the United States.Reddy claimed that the move showed the “Centre’s discrimination” against Telangana and said that the issue would be raised in…
Florida billionaire and longtime Apple investor Herbert A. Wertheim has paid $40 million for the first production Ferrari Luce, the automaker’s first fully electric production car. The 87-year-old investor bought Apple shares when the company went public in 1980 and is known for holding onto his investments for decades. The Ferrari Luce he bought, has…