Spread the love Explosions shook buildings in Dubai on Friday, sending a large plume of smoke over the central area of the Middle East’s financial hub, marking day 14 of the conflict between the United States-Israel, and Iran.Click here for live updates on day 14 of Middle East warAn AFP correspondent on the scene described the building as having “shaken”...
‘No life insurance’: Netanyahu’s stark warning to Iran’s Mojtaba Khamenei & a ‘puppet’ dig
Spread the love (Photo credit: Agencies) Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday issued a stark warning to Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei with a “puppet” dig asserting that there was “no life insurance” for leaders of Tehran regime.Speaking at his first press conference since the war with Iran began, Netanyahu said the joint military campaign by Israel and...
LPG crisis: why it is important for India to electrify industrial heat
Spread the love In the industrial town of Morbi in Gujarat, the air usually hums with the roar of gas-fired kilns producing millions of square metres of ceramic tiles. Today, however, nearly a quarter of the town’s ceramic units have gone silent. Nearly a thousand kilometres away in Ludhiana, Punjab, one of India’s largest hosiery and knitwear clusters is facing a...
Stock market today: Nifty50 goes below 23,400; BSE Sensex tumbles 900 points
Spread the love Stock market today (AI image) Stock market today: Continuing the down trend, Nifty50 and BSE Sensex opened in red on Friday as oil prices climbed and the Strait of Hormuz closure halted important global trade. While Nifty50 went below 23,400, BSE Sensex tumbled 900 points. At 10:20 AM, Nifty50 was trading at 23,325.45, down 313.70 points or...
Playing for India, mind becomes stronger than the body: VVS Laxman
Spread the love VVS Laxman. (TOI Photo) It’s been acclaimed as the knock of the century. No other innings evokes such fond memories and awe as VVS Laxman’s 281 at the Eden Gardens in 2001. The stylish Hyderabadi’s chutzpah and steely resolve allied beautifully in constructing a magnificent edifice that halted the bull run of Steve Waugh’s rampaging Aussies. Laxman...
Experts clash over HALEU-Th fuel for Indian nuclear reactors
Spread the love A January report in the journal Current Science authored by scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has turned radioactive with one of India’s leading nuclear scientists characterising the conclusions of the report as “misleading.” The study compared the relative merits of different mixes of nuclear-power-grade uranium and concluded that a mix of concentrated uranium-235 and thorium,...
‘Acknowledging the obvious’: Russia reacts to US waiver on oil amid Iran war
Spread the love Russia said on Friday that the global energy market “cannot remain stable” without its oil after the United States temporarily allowed the sale of Russian crude already in transit, a move that came as energy prices surged amid the escalating war involving Iran, Israel and the US.Russia’s economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev said the US decision effectively recognised...
Electrifying industrial heat as a path to India’s thermal independence
Spread the love In the industrial town of Morbi in Gujarat, the air usually hums with the roar of gas-fired kilns producing millions of square metres of ceramic tiles. Today, however, nearly a quarter of the town’s ceramic units have gone silent. Nearly a thousand kilometres away in Ludhiana, Punjab, one of India’s largest hosiery and knitwear clusters is facing...
Pakistan strikes Afghanistan again, killing 4; homes in Kabul hit in attack
Spread the love Pakistan attacks Afghanistan (AP file photo) Pakistan once again struck neighbouring Afghanistan’s capital early on Friday, killing four people in Kabul, according to city police.Kabul police spokesperson Khalid Zadran confirmed the Pakistani bombardment, saying the strikes from Islamabad hit homes in the city. Writing on X, he said the attack left “four people dead and 15 others...
After T20 World Cup heroics, can Sanju and Ishan break into India’s ODI plans?
Spread the love Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson (ANI Photo) As Team India embarks on a new cycle that will culminate in the ODI World Cup next year, will Sanju and Ishan’s T20 WC heroics be good enough for them to be candidates in the set up?The bubbly of euphoria of the T20 World Cup triumph was still spilling over...
