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It does not look like a breakthrough at first. Just the faint outline of a foot, pressed into what was once soft ground and later hardened by time. No bones nearby. No tools neatly arranged. And yet this single footprint, found in southern Chile, may be one of the most important human traces ever uncovered…
Praggnanandhaa, Gukesh, Divya Deshmukh, and Magnus Carlsen (Photo by Michal Walusza for Norway Chess) NEW DELHI: On Sunday, Round 6 marked the beginning of the reverse fixtures at Norway Chess this year. As a regular practice, it featured the exact same pairings as the opening round, but with opposite-coloured pieces at the Deichman Bjørvika library…
Michael Dell and Susan Dell have announced a $750 million donation to the University of Texas at Austin to build a new medical centre and research campus. The move comes months after the couple committed $6.25 billion to fund “Trump Accounts” for children in the US. The new project will focus on healthcare, research and…
NEW DELHI: The malpractice of getting fitness certificates, including PUC, home-delivered without taking vehicles to test centres for renewal of registration will soon be a thing of the past. In a draft notification proposing major changes in motor vehicle rules, the transport ministry has proposed to make it mandatory for private vehicles to get fitness…
Keep your eyes open today, especially outside your home. The Moon creates distractions and Mars pushes speed, so travel, road movement, and workplace activity need alertness. Leave early, check your bag twice, and don’t rush through signals.You may hear something disappointing, or a plan may not go as you hoped. Don’t make it a personal…
NEW DELHI: In an effort to transform India’s punitive prison system into reformative centres, Supreme Court has mandated radical reforms and ruled that women inmates, like male prisoners, have a fundamental right to be lodged in open correctional institutions (OCIs), which must change character from labour camps to vocational training centres and allow inmates’ to…
Sivakarthikeyan’s ‘Parasakthi’ is experiencing a slowdown at the box office, with collections dropping significantly after a strong opening week. While the film garnered mixed social media reactions, its worldwide gross has reached Rs 84.8 crore. Despite a solid start, the movie struggled to maintain momentum in later weeks, indicating a decline in audience engagement. Sivakarthikeyan…
Indian-origin entrepreneur Vijay Thirumalai has sparked a fierce buzz online after reacting to the death of 30-year-old Indian national Sasikanth Reddy Donthireddy in the United States.Taking to X, Thirumalai paid tribute to Reddy, who reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest on February 16, 2026. In a post that quickly gained traction, he outlined Reddy’s journey: arriving…
A right-wing author has claimed that China is exploiting American birthright citizenship laws by sending soon-to-be mothers to United States to give birth, securing US citizenship for children, and those children return to China to be raised and then later return back to the US as adults with full legal rights of a US citizen….
One of the worrisome and rather tasteless human behaviours is to devalue the human being as having the least value in all human enterprise and activity. The few examples below will serve to drive home this point: Business: Some of the most studied ratios in financial statements are comparative ratios of employee costs to total…
