Category: Events

Nasa just invited India to help build a permanent base on the Moon. It’s the kind of headline that writes itself — and yet, what it actually means for India is still almost entirely undecided.Nasa wants to do something considerably more ambitious than return astronauts to the Moon. It wants to start building a place...

Connor Hill (Delta High School, State College, PA) By writing a custom computer algorithm that mapped every possible version of a rare class of geometric shapes, 17-year-old Connor Hill from Port Matilda, Pennsylvania, has won the top $250,000 prize at the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search.His computational proof classified a complex group of three-dimensional shapes...

Brittany Mahomes (Getty Images) Brittany Mahomes is putting her support for women’s sports front and center as the Kansas City Current continues to expand its influence beyond the soccer field. The former professional soccer player and team co-owner recently backed a message celebrating female athletes and the wider impact of women’s sports, highlighting why their...

Yashwant Varma is likely to face impeachment proceedings after a Parliamentary panel found all charges against him proved. NEW DELHI: It began with a fire.On the intervening night of March 14-15, 2025, firefighters responding to a blaze at the official residence of Delhi high court judge Yashwant Varma stumbled upon something far more consequential than...

“The passing of Asish Banerjee has left me deeply disturbed,” Mamata Banerjee wrote on X. NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday condoled the death of her party leader Asish Banerjee, saying the “harassment and mental pressure” he faced should “make all of us pause and reflect on the human cost of...

Avinash Pandey (38) and Rinkoo Singh Rahee (44). LUCKNOW: Two senior Uttar Pradesh officers used their Independence Day addresses to reflect on public service and accountability, with one invoking revolutionary Bhagat Singh to highlight delays in justice and another citing an episode from Gautama Buddha‘s life to explain the police’s use of force for maintaining...

Badminton player PV Sindhu speaks during a press conference for the BWF World Championships 2026 at Indira Gandhi Arena Stadium, in New Delhi on Sunday. (ANI Photo/Naveen Sharma) New Delhi:PV Sindhu occupied the fourth court in the main hall of the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Saturday. At the other end, she had Ayush Shetty...

The Fish and Wildlife Service restored peat wetlands at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge North Carolina’s coastal peatlands are being restored to protect wetlands, reduce wildfire risks and keep carbon stored in the soil. The work is focused on bringing water back to areas that were once drained and altered for farming, timber harvesting...

The Grandmaster View by India’s 93rd GM Aarav Dengla On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. On the other side of the ocean, the final stage of the 1939 Chess Olympiad was getting underway in Buenos Aires.It was the first Olympiad to be organized outside Europe and was the largest to date, with twenty-seven national...

Rijiju said that Prime Minister’s remarks were not meant for opposition leaders. NEW DELHI: Union parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s remarks on “dimagi naxals” were not meant for the opposition leaders.Amid opposition’s criticism over PM’s remarks during his Independence Day speech, Rijiju said that the “dimagi naxals”...