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Artificial reefs created from retired oil and gas structures can provide stable marine habitat for more than 50 years. Far below Alabama’s Gulf Coast, a structure that once belonged to the energy industry is beginning a second life beneath the waves. The decommissioned Spirit VK 780A natural gas rig, located offshore, has been transformed into...

Election Commission of India NEW DELHI: It is not the first time that faultlines within the Election Commission are out in the open. The trend started from the time it became a multi-member body in 1989, reports Bharti Jain.Two election commissioners S S Dhanoa and V S Seigell were appointed in Oct 1989 and joined...

Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Congress Wednesday led the opposition in demanding CEC Gyanesh Kumar be sacked and an SC-monitored probe be ordered into the “rot”, amid reports that two ECs repeatedly opposed various steps taken about SIR.The opposition announced it will move “impeachment motions” against Kumar whenever a “special session” of Parliament is called. It...

Bar Council of India chairman Manan Kumar Mishra. NEW DELHI: Supreme Court said Wednesday allegations of Bar Council of India’s assets being transferred to a trust created by the BCI chairperson are a matter of concern and it has to be examined. SC also agreed to examine whether it has the power to establish and...

Sergio Gor NEW DELHI: US ambassador to India Sergio Gor made a rare appearance at a Chinese event here on Wednesday, as White House rolled out a red carpet for President Xi Jinping for a potentially landmark visit.Gor joined Chinese ambassador Xu Feihong for a reception hosted by the latter at a 5-star hotel to...

It would not be a fallacious metaphor if it is said that since the umpire is picked by the captain of one side … and his team wins, even if the decisions taken by such umpire are correct, it has the patina of suspicion: Justice Dipankar Datta NEW DELHI: Deliberating on the validity of the...

Benedict Arnold went from George Washington’s trusted general to British ally; his crypt is now part of a kindergarten classroom. (Photo: Wiki/St Mary’s, Battersea) Benedict Arnold, one of the most controversial figures of the American Revolutionary War, ended his life far removed from the country where he had once earned the trust of General George...

Representative image SRINAGAR: Tap water existing only on paper, people in some areas still having to hire horses for “transporting drinking water to their houses”, water pipes abandoned and littered around at some places are some of the damning observations in the report by a J&K assembly committee that was formed to probe alleged irregularities...

Representative image | TNNJammu: A joint police team from Jammu has arrested three suspected members of Khauf gang, a Jammu-based criminal syndicate, in Delhi. The trio includes Karanjit Singh alias Gugga, a murder accused wanted in 13 FIRs, who escaped a juvenile observation home in RS Pura along with two Pakistani inmates in Feb.Addressing reporters...