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Dehradun declares one-day holiday for schools and Anganwadi centres amid heavy rain alert Following a forecast of heavy rainfall by the Meteorological Department, the Dehradun district administration has declared a one-day holiday for all schools and Anganwadi centres on Wednesday, August 5.This order covers all government and private schools from Classes 1 to 12, along…
Kriti Sanon says she would love to reunite with debut co-star Mahesh Babu: ‘I was really a baby back then’ Kriti Sanon, who has cemented her place as one of Indian cinema’s leading stars with a string of successful films, has revealed that she would love to reunite on screen with her debut co-star, Mahesh…
The debate sparked online after the entrepreneur shared the post online. There is a familiar weekend ritual in many urban Indian households. Parents wake up on Saturday morning, open Google Maps or Instagram, and ask the same question: Where do we take the kids today? For some, the answer is frustratingly repetitive- a mall, a…
In classical numerology, the birth numbers two, seven, and eight are linked to enhanced intuition and keen observational skills. Number two embodies emotional sensitivity, encouraging empathetic interactions, while number seven promotes deep introspection and thoughtful consideration. Number eight, associated with Saturn and the concept of karma, highlights the importance of structured analysis in various circumstances….
When a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and the devastating tsunami that followed struck Japan’s north-eastern coast in March 2011, entire towns were swept away, nearly 20,000 people were killed or went missing, and vast stretches of coastline were left in ruins. In the years since, Japan has invested billions of yen in massive concrete seawalls, but…
Maybe ghettoisation is too strong a term to use with reference to the Grammys creating a new category for their 2027 award selection in music. But one really doesn’t know how else to describe the decision of the Recording Academy that takes a call on the kind of awards to be given each year. Categorisation by music genre like Jazz…
Representative Image of marine life thriving around resilient chicken kidney sponges in polluted waters (AI-generated image) Researchers in Spain spent 455 days tracking how sponges from five species of Mediterranean sea life coped with being moved from clean, natural habitats toward a heavily polluted recreational marina near Girona. The experiment was designed to test a…
UPI: Government is also expected to prescribe an upper limit on the maximum MDR that can be charged. Will you have to pay for UPI payments going ahead? The government is expected to permit the levy of a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) of 0.25% to 0.4% on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000 made to businesses,…
Mahto takes water after Sonam Wangchuk’s appeal (Photo: ANI) Student leader Devendra Nath Mahto, who is on an indefinite hunger strike over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission (JSSC), consumed water on Wednesday, the fourth day of his fast. Mahto said he…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has escalated his criticism of frontier artificial intelligence labs, telling CNBC that enterprises should not be forced to surrender intellectual property work with model markers. “We have people trying to drug addict us to a future they believe they control,” Karp said, referring to companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Karp believes…
