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Parts of the massive porcelain find. Image Credit: Norway’s Directorate for Cultural Heritage More than 600 metres beneath the surface of the Skagerrak Strait, which lies between Norway and Denmark, archaeologists have uncovered what experts are calling one of the most remarkable shipwreck discoveries ever made in Northern Europe.The vessel is believed to have sunk…
Go a bit slower today. That’s the first and best advice. The Moon sits in a sensitive spot, and Mars can create haste, which means travel, road movement, and even routine work need more care than usual. You might feel some unnecessary tension rising in the air. but not because of the imminent threat however,…
The most consequential regulatory reforms rarely announce themselves as revolutions. They arrive disguised as housekeeping. A circular is consolidated. A framework is streamlined. A reporting line is clarified. The language is technical, the tone administrative, and the market moves on. Years later, historians discover that a constitutional shift occurred beneath the paperwork. The Reserve Bank…
In a city shaken by violence and fear, an Indian-origin woman in Belfast stepped forward with home-cooked meals to support families too afraid to leave their homes.Ruchira Rangaprasad moved to Northern Ireland from India three years ago and began a social media appeal offering freshly prepared food to people affected by recent unrest. Her initiative…
Not very long ago, a railway journey in India often began with a queue.Passengers would visit reservation counters, wait for printed tickets, check paper charts pasted outside coaches and rely on station inquiry windows for information about delays or platform changes.Today, much of that experience fits inside a smartphone. A passenger can book a ticket,…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron will jointly inaugurate Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice on June 14, aimed at deepening India-France collaboration in deep technology, innovation and start-up ecosystems. Ahead of the event, education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday released two strategic documents profiling the selected start-ups and research projects…
NEW DELHI: TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday reacted to Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee’s “arrogant” remark, saying that the senior party leader had the “right to say a few harsh words” as the latter had seen him “grow up”.“Kalyan Banerjee has seen me grow up. He is a senior leader of the…
Equal AI founder and GVK Group scion Keshav Reddy Hyderabad: AI call assistant platform Equal AI, founded by the GVK Group scion Keshav Reddy, has raised US$30 million (Rs 287 crore) in a Series B funding round co-led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital, as the Indian consumer artificial intelligence company moves to expand…
How do you measure a trillion dollars? Start with the zeroes. A trillion is written as $1,000,000,000,000 — a one followed by 12 zeroes. Yet even that barely captures its scale. As SpaceX’s market debut pushes Elon Musk towards what could become the world’s first trillion-dollar personal fortune, the number is so large that it…
India’s Neeraj Chopra (PTI Photo) Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra will not compete at the upcoming Doha Diamond League meeting on June 19 as he continues to recover from a back injury while training in Switzerland.The two-time Olympic medallist, who claimed gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and silver at the Paris Olympics in…
