4 min readNew DelhiSep 8, 2026 04:01 PM IST Recent reports have raised questions about the potential presence of “forever chemicals” in activewear from leading athletic apparel brand Lululemon. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched an investigation to determine whether the company’s athletic apparel contains PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The Office of...
Police complaint lodged against Dhirendra Shastri NEW DELHI: The West Bengal Congress on Tuesday lodged a police complaint against Bageshwar Dham head priest Dhirendra Shastri over his recent “avoid non-veg during Durga Puja” remark, asserting that the call was “intended to create disharmony.”In the complaint submitted to the officer-in-charge of Kolkata’s Bhawanipore police station, the...
NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday slammed Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi for “politicising” the killing of Manipuri musician C Vikram Singh in Delhi, saying that the focus should be on immediate action.While talking to reporters, Rijiju said that Rahul should not bring BJP into the issue and said that Delhi...
China, which ranks among the world’s biggest official-sector gold buyers, has now continued adding bullion to its reserves for 22 consecutive months. Gold prices are driven not just by the gold individuals buy or sell. In fact, one of the biggest factors that drives gold prices is the trendline of central banks buying or selling...
Uber is asking nearly all remote employees to move to an office near their team. Uber‘s memo to staff on Wednesday cut about 3,300 jobs, but the line that changes daily life for everyone still employed is the one about working from home. The company is ending remote work as a normal way to work...
Ko Myeong-hyo loved the vibrant colour and thriving life of South Korea‘s soft corals when she first began diving off the coast of Jeju island six years ago, looking to harvest seafood for sale. “Watching the coral garden collapse and turn white, it was so disorienting,” Ko says now, after two years of rising temperatures...
PM Modi and Russian president Vladimir Putin NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian president Vladimir Putin are scheduled to hold a bilateral meeting on Friday, with trade and economic cooperation expected to feature prominently on the agenda, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.Moscow also welcomed India’s willingness to contribute to efforts aimed at finding...
A Guwahati woman was allegedly killed by her husband after a quarrel. Her body was found decapitated in a flat, with her head in a bag. GUWAHATI: Accused husband Ramanuj Goswami, arrested for allegedly killing and beheading his wife Riya Talukdar Goswami, has claimed he has “no regrets” and will offer “no apology” for the...
Cosmologists are literally over the moon at the prospect of listening to the universe telling its story like never before. At the heart of this excitement is a small satellite named CosmoCube, which scientists from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) plan to send to the far side of the moon, which permanently faces away from...
5 min readNew DelhiSep 8, 2026 01:58 PM IST Amid rising cases of mosquito-borne diseases, an X user highlighted her case of getting dengue thrice in 18 months. “After getting dengue thrice in 18 months, I started reading about why mosquitoes were biting only me and no one else. Turns out, they have a type,...
