NEW DELHI: Teenage high jumper Pooja Singh produced a sensational performance on Friday, clinching gold with a stunning leap of 1.93m at the Asian U20 Athletics Championships in Hong Kong and scripting multiple pieces of history in the process.The 19-year-old became the first Indian ever to win a gold medal in the women’s high jump…
A cargo ship crossing the North Pacific encountered a powerful storm that swept several shipping containers into the ocean. One of those containers carried 28,800 plastic bath toys consisting of yellow ducks, blue turtles, red beavers, and green frogs. What appeared to be a routine shipping accident soon turned into one of the most unusual…
JAMMU: A cloudburst triggered flashfloods in J&K’s Reasi district that damaged at least half a dozen houses and blocked roads due to mudslides on Thursday. No injury or casualty was reported in the incident that occurred in Gulabgarh’s Bathoi village. This is the fifth cloudburst in Jammu region in the past three days.Lt Governor Manoj…
France’s Kylian Mbappe watches Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton) Paraguay goalkeeper Orlando Gill has explained the dramatic post-match incident involving Kylian Mbappe after France’s heated 1-0 victory over Paraguay in the FIFA World Cup Round of 16, admitting he “lost my temper” after the French captain ignored his attempt to shake hands.The tense…
Photo credit: pmuy.gov.in The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) is one of India’s most significant social welfare initiatives aimed at providing clean cooking fuel to poor households. Launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 1 May 2016 from Ballia in Uttar Pradesh, the scheme seeks to improve the health, dignity, and quality of life of…
MOHALI: A major accident was averted at Shaheed Bhagat Singh International Airport on Tuesday after a power bank allegedly caught fire inside an IndiGo flight that had arrived from Hyderabad, triggering panic among passengers. Six people were injured and taken to hospital.According to airport officials, IndiGo flight 6E 108 from Hyderabad landed at Chandigarh airport…
The terms rocket and missile are often used interchangeably in news reports, military briefings and everyday conversations. From the battlefields of Ukraine to conflicts in the Middle East and South Asia, projectiles are frequently described as “missiles” even when they are rockets.While both use rocket propulsion to generate thrust, they are fundamentally different weapons designed…
British-Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati Two Romanian nationals have been convicted by a UK court for the stabbing of Iranian TV presenter Pouria Zeraati outside his home in Wimbledon, south London, in an attack prosecutors described as a “deliberate, targeted act of violence” involving months of planning and surveillance.The victim, a journalist with the Farsi-language broadcaster…
When people imagine a national park, they usually think of sprawling forests, safari routes and multiple entry gates. India’s smallest national park is nothing like that. In fact, reaching it can be far more challenging than visiting some of the country’s largest protected areas.India’s smallest national park is South Button Island National Park, located in…
NEW DELHI: Union minister of state for agriculture Bhagirath Choudhary on Saturday refuted charges of taking a subsidy of nearly Rs 1 crore from his own ministry and said that he had “hidden nothing” and had applied for the subsidy years before becoming a minister.Speaking to news agency ANI, Choudhary claimed that he has been…