Spread the love Representative Image Major cloud companies, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, are reportedly exploring plans to redirect data centre workloads from parts of West Asia to locations such as India and Singapore. This reported move follows recent disruptions in the region caused by the conflict between Iran, and the US and Israel. A report by...
Middle East tensions force IndiGo Delhi–Manchester flight to make U-turn mid-air
Spread the love NEW DELHI: An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Manchester returned to its origin after last-minute airspace restrictions linked to the evolving situation in Middle East, the airline said on Sunday.Flight 6E 033, which had departed from Delhi for Manchester, was unable to continue its journey and turned back shortly after take-off due to sudden limits imposed on...
Putin congratulates Mojtaba Khamenei on appointment as Iran’s new leader, pledges ‘unwavering’ support
Spread the love Photo credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday congratulated Mojtaba Khamenei on his appointment as Iran’s new supreme leader, offering his “unwavering support” for Tehran as the country faces a deepening regional conflict.The leadership change followed the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in US-Israeli airstrikes last week.Iran’s powerful Assembly of Experts, the clerical body responsible for...
Groups to prevent human-elephant conflict linked to more elephant deaths
Spread the love A long-standing intervention by the Assam government to reduce crop depredation by elephants in its forest regions, piloted and designed by environmental non-government organisation World Wildlife Fund (WWF), is actually associated with more accidental elephant deaths, a study in Conservation Biology has reported. Launched in 2003 in Sonitpur district, the anti-depredation squads (ADS) of Assam coordinated local villagers...
UV camera snaps treetops glowing as thunderstorm passed overhead
Spread the love Thunderstorms create large amounts of electricity that we see as lightning. Under these storms, scientists believed that electricity would flow through trees, giving them a dull ultraviolet glow, and affect the surrounding environment. These discharges are called coronae. However, no one measured these ‘glows’, predicted nearly a century ago, until recently. In a new study published in...
Gold price today: How much gold costs in your city today? Check rates
Spread the love Gold futures tumbled on Monday, slipping Rs 1,052 to close at Rs 1,60,582 per 10 grams, as local spot demand weakened. On the Multi Commodity Exchange, April gold contracts fell 0.65% in a turnover of 1,729 lots, with analysts pointing to soft global cues as the key factor behind the decline. Meanwhile, silver futures advanced amid global...
‘Paaji, kade hass vi leya karo’: Arshdeep Singh trolls Gautam Gambhir
Spread the love Gautam Gambhir and Arshdeep Singh (Image credit: Instagram) NEW DELHI: The celebrations, laughter, tears, dance, bhangra, hugs and high-fives were everywhere among the Indian players after Team India crushed New Zealand in the final at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad to lift the T20 World Cup 2026 title. This was India’s third T20 World Cup triumph,...
Elon Musk responds to report of Surat women using ChatGPT for suicide
Spread the love Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has reacted to the shocking deaths of two young women in Surat, Gujarat, after reports revealed that the two friends had used ChatGPT to search for ways to commit suicide. Authorities believe they had injected themselves with an anaesthetic drug.Katie Miller, podcaster and former Advisor to the Department of Government...
Alia Bhatt reacts as BFF Akansha Ranjan Kapoor talks about freezing her eggs: ‘Injecting myself with fat needles every day’
Spread the love 4 min readNew DelhiMar 9, 2026 03:00 PM IST Actor Akansha Ranjan Kapoor recently opened up about egg freezing, revealing that the past two weeks were “intense”. In an Instagram post, the 32-year-old wrote, “Yesterday I froze my eggs!! I really didn’t plan on sharing, but today feels like the right day to say this… the female body is...
What is the WISA Act? All about new US bill that aims to roll back Trump’s H-1B restrictions
Spread the love A new bill aimed at reversing controversial restrictions on the H-1B visa program has been introduced in the US Congress by Bonnie Watson Coleman. The new legislation, named the Welcoming International Success Act, aims to rescind a presidential proclamation issued in September 2025 that tightened the standards for employers sponsoring H-1B workers. The earlier rule set tough...
