Category: Events

CM Suvendu Adhikari tucks into fish-and-pulao bhog at Kalighat temple on the occasion of Kaushiki Amavasya on Thursday NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday visited Kolkata’s Kalighat Temple and partook of the traditional fish and pulao bhog, days after Dhirendra Krishna Shastri triggered a row by asking Bengalis to give up...

BRICS began with Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). South Africa joined in 2010, turning it into BRICS. NEW DELHI: Delhi has been turned into a fortress. Roads are being secured, security has been stepped up and the capital is preparing for the arrival of some of the world’s most powerful leaders.Russian President Vladimir Putin,...

A 26-year-old man seeking infertility treatment discovered a rare congenital condition (File pic) NEW DELHI: A 26-year-old man who approached RG Hospitals in Rajouri Garden for infertility treatment was found to have a uterus and fallopian-tube-like structures inside his body, revealing a rare congenital condition that had remained undiagnosed until adulthood, news agency ANI reported.The...

Image Credit: Instagram NEW DELHI: A US-based Indian couple has alleged that staff at a duty-free shop at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport scanned the passports of their entire family, including their two young children.Pooja Tomarr Sikarwar shared a video on Instagram alleging that the incident took place at Terminal 3 after the family arrived...

The towers of the World Trade Center pour smoke shortly after being struck by hijacked commercial aircraft, September 11, 2001. (Image source: Reuters) 9/11 has been one of the most horrifying incidents of terrorism to happen on American soil. It claimed 2,977 victims not even accounting for the collective trauma it resulted in.By the time...

Mathematicians around the world are very angry with Sam Altman’s OpenAI OpenAI has pulled its support for a Caltech mathematics event after a group of current and former mathematicians criticised the growing use of AI in mathematical research. According to a Business Insider report, the dispute comes as AI companies increasingly use large language models...

David Maloney, Trump President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America” has now been followed by a similar proposal involving another Great Lake. A Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania is preparing a resolution seeking to rename Lake Erie as “Lake Pennsylvania”.State Representative David Maloney argues that the state has a strong economic and...

The absence of an original ITR became a key issue. An Indian working in Kuwait and originally from Ahmedabad received an income tax notice after he failed to file an Income Tax Return (ITR), despite remitting more than a crore to his bank accounts in India.The man had moved to Kuwait to work in the...

US President Donald Trump rejected phone calls from Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman twice, urging him to launch strikes against Houthis, Axios reported, citing US officials.According to the report, US officials said Trump declined the request because the US has no plans to intervene directly for now.“On Thursday, as Houthi forces advanced on...

Donkeys are more than just packs of animals and load carriers; these herbivores have the capacity to contribute more to the environment than most humans. Over four decades ago, authorities in Israel released 28 wild donkeys into the Ramon Crater, an extremely arid area of Israel’s Negev Desert. The animals’ daily habits completely transformed the...