In recent days, petrol and diesel prices have gone up by around Rs 7.5 per litre, increasing daily costs for consumers. This has once again sparked a familiar debate, are oil marketing companies (OMCs) making windfall gains amid the Middle East crisis?At the centre of this discussion is a headline number, a combined profit of...
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SpaceX’s Starship rockets grounded pending investigation after test flight
SpaceX Starship launches are on hold pending an investigation into last week’s test flight. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced on Wednesday (May 27, 2026) that the hour-long spaceflight resulted in a mishap based on the performance of the mega rocket’s first-stage booster. Minutes after Starship blasted off from Texas on May 22, the booster...
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NASA lays out moon base plans with landers, buggies and drones
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is already ordering landers, rovers and drones for a sprawling moon base, less than two months after the Artemis II’s record-breaking lunar flyaround. The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday (May 26,2026), awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four...
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50 seconds of terror: Lucknow property dealer shot point blank in broad daylight
LUCKNOW: A 35-year-old property dealer was killed in broad daylight in a busy marketplace of the city on Wedndesday. A 50-second CCTV clip has captured the murder, purportedly showing two bikeborne assailants firing repeatedly at close range and continuing to shoot even after the victim, Sandeep Singh , collapsed.The victim ran an office under the...
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Months after Dell CEOdonated $6.25 billion to Trump Accounts, company gets $9.7 billion Pentagon deal
Months after Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan donated $6.25 billion to seed “Trump accounts” for children, the company has secured a massive $9.7 billion contract with the US Department of Defense to provide enterprise software to the military. Dell CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan Dell committed a...
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‘Verbal abuse, misogyny’: TMC MP Kakoli writes to Om Birla against party MP Kalyan Banerjee
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Kalyan Banerjee NEW DELHI: Former Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Thursday lodged a formal complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla against party MP and current chief whip Kalyan Banerjee, alleging that he had ‘repeatedly verbally abused’ her inside Parliament.“I seek your permission to lodge a formal complain to...
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What is wet-bulb temperature, and why is it being discussed during heatwaves?
Wet bulb temperature is not the regular temperature we see on weather apps. It is a measure that combines heat and humidity to show how stressful the environment actually feels to the human body. “During extreme humidity, sweat does not evaporate properly, which means the body struggles to cool itself. That is why even temperatures...
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Chandrayaan-2 detects possible presence of subsurface ice near south pole of moon
Nearly six years after it was launched, India’s second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 continues to provide valuable data on the satellite. In a new finding, scientists have found the possible presence of subsurface ice in lunar south polar regions. These were the findings of scientists from Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) who used observations from the Chandrayaan-2’s...
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Watch: Kavya Maran greets Vaibhav Sooryavanshi after SRH exit IPL 2026
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi shakes hand with SRH’s Kavya Maran (Screengrab) NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Royals’ teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi once again found himself at the centre of attention after his breathtaking knock against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL 2026 Eliminator. But apart from the fireworks on the field, one post-match moment involving SRH co-owner Kavya Maran also...
