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Destroyer Kang Kon at its commissioning ceremony at a port in Wonsan, North Korea (Photo: AP) North Korea commissioned its second naval destroyer on Sunday, a day before the commencement of the US-South Korea-Japan trilateral military exercise.Commissioned in the eastern port city of Wonsan, Kang Kon is the second 5,000-ton naval destroyer after Choe Hyon’s…
Pakistan’s Babar Azam celebrates after taking a catch to dismiss England’s Ben Duckett during the second Test at the Lord’s against England. (AP) NEW DELHI: The ghost of match-fixing has returned to haunt the Pakistan cricket team and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) during the ongoing three-match Test series against England. After losing the second…
Iran women’s football player Fatemeh Pasandideh salutes during the national anthem of Iran. (AP Photo) Iranian footballers Atefeh Ramezanisadeh and Fatemeh Pasandideh have broken their silence over the protest that preceded their decision to seek asylum in Australia, confirming that their refusal to sing Iran’s national anthem at the Women’s Asian Cup was a deliberate…
Wyoming tetons Representative image from Canva Deep in the rock record of Wyoming, a layer of fossil leaves tells a quiet but powerful story about what happens to forests when the planet warms rapidly. About 56 million years ago, during a spike in global temperatures known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a lush…
Akshay Kumar was not part of ORIGINAL ‘Haiwaan’ plan, Priyadarshan reveals how one casual chat during ‘Bhoot Bangla’ changed casting Priyadarshan’s upcoming film ‘Haiwaan’ came together differently from what the filmmaker had initially envisioned. While Saif Ali Khan was confirmed for the project from the outset, Akshay Kumar was not originally considered for the film….
He once used Tony Robbins tapes while cleaning floors to improve his English. When Sharran Srivatsaa arrived in the US from India in 1997, he was not carrying a business empire, a powerful network or a high-paying job. He was a college freshman trying to pay his bills, working as a janitor and struggling with…
An AI-generated representative image of bamboo pyramids under water. Credits: ChatGPT Every year, thousands of natural Christmas trees are discarded after the holiday season. At Georgia’s Allatoona Lake, some of those trees have been given a second chance at life instead of being discarded. By 2022, the unusual recycling effort had transformed into a long-running…
General:A useful day is in front of you, and it has a golden edge. The stars favour sensible investment, the kind you make not for show but for security. Jupiter supports long-view thinking, and the Moon helps you spot what may be worth saving for later. What you put aside now could protect you on…
A farmer in southern Oregon transformed 70 acres of his 400-acre barley farm into a wetland in 2021, creating an unexpected refuge for wildlife while helping address agricultural water pollution. Karl Wenner, a co-owner of Lakeside Farms near Klamath Falls, worked with conservation agencies and other partners to convert flood-prone farmland into a managed wetland….
The case involves ‘allegations concerning publication and dissemination of material promoting communal disharmony and also contains allegations regarding illegal transactions, unaccounted cash transactions and funding from suspicious sources.’ NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday conducted searches at the residence of Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Nadimul Haque and six other premises across Delhi,…
