Category: Events

More than five decades ago, Apollo 14 carried an unusual payload into deep space when hundreds of tree seeds accompanied the mission on its journey around the Moon. While astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell explored the lunar surface in February 1971, command module pilot Stuart Roosa remained in lunar orbit with the seeds packed...

A Note of Discord: US divided on the proposed Trump $250 bill TOI correspondent from Washington: America, a republic founded in rebellion against monarchy and once faintly embarrassed about personality cults, is now contemplating commemorating its 250th birthday by placing Donald Trump’s face on a brand-new $250 bill — a denomination so oddly specific it...

BHOPAL: The ashes of Twisha Sharma, the victim of the high-profile Bhopal case, were immersed in the Ganga, with her father Navnidhi Sharma stating that his daughter had a deep attachment to Rishikesh and the Ganga river.The family of Twisha Sharma reached Triveni Ghat in Rishikesh to immerse her ashes in the holy river Ganga....

(File photo) Less than a year after formally recognising the Taliban government in Afghanistan, Russia has now signed a military cooperation agreement with Kabul. According to Politico, the agreement was signed on Wednesday during a meeting between Afghan Defence Minister Mohammad Yaqoub and Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu at the International Security Forum in...

Hundreds of Wikipedia editors are threatening to take major action against the company. These actions may include a potential strike. The threats of collective action reportedly followed the Wikimedia Foundation’s disbanding of a small team of engineers that many volunteers relied on for technical support and community-requested tools.According to a report by The Verge, the...

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) detected around 20 cases of answer-sheet mix-ups during the first-time implementation of its on-screen marking (OSM) system this year, while more than 13,000 answer sheets ultimately had to be evaluated manually due to scanning quality issues, government sources told PTI on Friday.The issue came to light...

(Photo credit: AP) US President Donald Trump on Friday said a potential deal with Iran was now at the stage of a “final determination”, while laying out a detailed list of conditions for Tehran and signalling that restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz could soon be lifted.In a characteristically dramatic message on Truth Social, Trump...

LUCKNOW: A violent assault on a local Samajwadi Party (SP) woman leader in Chandauli has triggered political reactions after the victim alleged that she was brutally attacked inside her home by the family members of her long-time business associate and claimed that a larger political conspiracy may have been behind the incident.The victim, Gargi Singh...

Nearly a decade after China launched its sweeping crackdown in Xinjiang, rights groups and researchers say Beijing’s campaign against Uyghurs has entered a new phase, one focused less on mass internment camps and more on reshaping identity, language, religion and family life.According to Financial Times, the shift has come even after Chinese authorities claimed in...

With a biofuel in the mix, E20 petrol aims at lowering emissions, at the same time reducing the requirement of petrol in the fuel mix. (AI image) For a country that imports over 85% of its crude needs, any savings in the oil imports bill is important. With the Middle East conflict and the US-Iran...