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Trump had promised to end all wars in his second term as US president. He had also aggressively sought the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. But he has changed course. This month, he has declared on Truth Social that he would ask US Congress for a $1.5tn defence budget in 2027, a 66% increase…
Tatiana Schlossberg, who took the last breath at the age of 35, revealed her cancer a month ago only in an essay in “The New Yorker.”In the essay, she said that her doctors had told her that she might survive for about another year. And on December 30, Schlossberg died. In that essay, she also…
Pakistan government on Tuesday sold its national airline, PIA, for Rs 135 billion to a consortium led by Arif Habib investment firm on Tuesday. The sale, organised through a bidding process in Islamabad, marks the largest transaction in Pakistan’s history. It aims to revive the once-prestigious carrier that had been struggling due to years of…
MUMBAI: India’s foreign exchange reserves fell sharply by $10.3 billion in the week ended March 27, 2026, taking the total to $688.1 billion, driven largely by a decline in foreign currency assets and gold holdings amid currency market intervention by RBI.The fall was led by foreign currency assets, which dropped by $6.6 billion. These assets,…
The Pakistan government has overturned the two-year ban imposed on national hockey team captain Ammad Shakeel Butt, calling the action taken by the country’s hockey federation “illegal and unconstitutional”.The ban had been announced by Tariq Bugti shortly before he stepped down as president of the Pakistan Hockey Federation. Butt had criticised the federation over mismanagement…
This is not a common garden variety of disease It started as a tickle in the throat. And I was in complete denial. By mid-day, my doubts were becoming certainty. My throat was like sandpaper… Source link
For thousands of high school students across the United States, this week marks the first major checkpoint of the 2025-26 college application cycle. Early decision and early action results will be released at many leading universities, including most Ivy League institutions.These results matter for individual students, but they also serve another purpose. Early admissions outcomes…
India and the European Union have finally wrapped up negotiations for a long-pending Free Trade Agreement. This move that could eventually make European luxury cars significantly more affordable in India. Under the pact, import duties on EU-made cars will be reduced sharply from the current peak level of up to 110 per cent to as…
Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, and it appears in many mathematical equations and formulas. Every year, on the 14th of March, classes, research centres, and science organisations across the globe come together to mark the importance of a field that influences modern civilisation: mathematics. The day has…
The modern workplace has become a stage where employees are compelled to perform productivity long before they can truly deliver it. Screens stay active, calendars remain blocked, and status lights glow green as workers navigate a culture where visibility is often valued above output. Beneath this polished façade, however, a hidden pattern is taking root,…
