The recently released satellite photo by Roscosmos has been making headlines around the world, not because of anything significant happening on the planet, but due to its peculiar representation of Earth. The picture was taken by Electro-L, a weather satellite, and shows Earth in a wide-angle shot, with peculiar colours which make it very unique….
Quote of the day by Warren Buffett. Among the vast collection of aphorisms attributed to Warren Buffett, few are as blunt or practical as his famous rule of self-correction: “The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.” While the statement sounds like simple common sense, it…
Housing sales and prices in Dubai plunged to Middle East war Dubai’s residential property market slowed down in the first half of 2026 as geopolitical tensions in West Asia weighed on buyer sentiment, with housing sales falling 16 per cent year-on-year, according to real estate consultancy Anarock.Residential transactions totalled AED 225.7 billion during the January-June…
NEW DELHI: The area in the National Capital Region (NCR) is unlikely to be reduced. The NCR Planning Board, which is scheduled to meet on June 16, will take decisions on this and other issues.As per the agenda circulated to NCR state, “There will be no change in the current NCR area (55,083 sqkm). Hence,…
The United States has imposed sanctions on four Indian companies involved in Iran’s oil trade The United States has sanctioned four India-based companies over their alleged involvement in Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical trade, as Washington expands its newly launched “Operation Economic Outcast” aimed at cutting Tehran’s financial and oil revenue networks.The US State Department named…
Julie Lee Choi’s picture credit: AP Photo/Michael Liedtke Apple’s leadership is undergoing a seismic shift. Tim Cook, who steered the tech giant for over a decade, will step down as CEO to become executive chairman of the board on September 1, 2026. Stepping into his shoes is John Ternus, Apple’s vice president of hardware engineering,…
NEW DELHI: A controversy in the US over chemicals in activewear has raised fresh concerns about what Indians are wearing to the gym, with experts warning that the issue goes beyond comfort to potential health risks.“Most activewear is made from plastic-based polymers that can release chemicals with potential endocrine effects, but in India, we lack…
Image: instagram.com/kalariwoman_amruthaet_revathi/ Kalarippayattu is Kerala’s oldest surviving martial tradition; some scholars place its origins at over two thousand years, though the art itself resists being pinned down by dates. It was never just a fighting system. It was a complete discipline. You trained in a kuzhi Kalari, a pit sunk into the earth, because the…
It is a piece of cloth, a gesture of respect among Tamil people. But over the years, the melthundu — ‘mel’ meaning upper, ‘thundu’ meaning cloth — has come to mean much more than that. Forbidden at one point for particular communities, later reclaimed as a mark of protest, and now reimagined in party colours,…
Children often do not realise how much a small detail can reveal. A full name, school name, phone number, home address, location tag or even a profile photo can be used to identify them or track them. Parents should teach children that personal information is private, even if a website, game or app asks for…