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Venezuela’s national assembly (File photo) Venezuela’s National Assembly on Thursday approved a law to open the country’s oil sector to private companies, reversing a policy that has kept the industry under state control for more than 20 years. The vote comes less than a month after then-President Nicolás Maduro was seized in a US military…
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Saturday announced the schedule for India’s tour of Ireland. India will play a two-match T20I series in June 2026.India have toured Ireland three times in the last eight years — in 2018, 2022 and 2023. Watch Shashi Tharoor & Samson’s Redemption Story: From Setbacks…
As anticipation builds for Prabhas’s ‘Raja Saab,’ which has already generated impressive advance sales of over $425,000 in North America, shadows of concern are also emerging. With a daunting $10 million break-even goal and the rapid rise of Thalapathy Vijay’s ‘Jana Nayagan,’ currently dominating premiere ticket sales, the stakes are high for ‘Raja Saab’ to…
Building electric cars, reusable rockets and artificial intelligence systems requires more than technical expertise alone. Reflecting on his years working alongside Elon Musk during one of Tesla’s most turbulent growth periods, Jon McNeill said Musk’s success came partly from an unusually demanding hiring philosophy. Rather than simply recruiting highly qualified employees, Musk looked for people…
Image credit: Getty Images When California outlawed transcript withholding in 2020, the state positioned itself at the forefront of a quiet but consequential higher-education reform. The move was designed to dismantle a debt-collection practice that often trapped low-income students in a bureaucratic dead end, unable to prove their academic progress to employers or transfer institutions….
JEE Advanced 2026 infrastructure under scrutiny as IIT Roorkee acknowledges cloud configuration issue NEW DELHI: Just days after cybersecurity concerns surfaced around CBSE’s On-Screen Marking (OSM) system and allegations of vulnerabilities in the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) re-examination portal, another examination-related digital platform has come under scrutiny.This time, the issue concerns infrastructure linked to JEE…
NASA seems to be gearing up for one of its boldest missions yet. This isn’t just about planting a flag and snapping photos. The agency is reportedly aiming for a permanent human base on the Moon. A real, functioning settlement where astronauts could live for extended periods. The south pole of the Moon has caught…
For decades, the idea sounded almost mythical. Fresh water is buried under the Atlantic seabed, sitting quietly off the eastern coast of the United States. Old geological surveys hinted at something unusual, but the data were patchy and easy to ignore. Then, in 2025, scientists returned to those forgotten coordinates, and what they uncovered appears…
Asian markets traded mixed on Monday, with Japan’s benchmark index scaling fresh highs, as investors balanced strong cues from Wall Street against rising oil prices and geopolitical uncertainty.Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged 1.4% to 60,564.18, hitting a new intraday record, while South Korea’s Kospi jumped 2.1%.Taiwan’s Taiex also rallied 2.6%, supported by renewed buying in technology…
Walmart reached a market capitalization of over $1 trillion on Tuesday (February 3). This makes the American company the first retailer in the world to join an exclusive club of companies to reach a 13-figure valuation that mostly consists of technology companies like Google, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta. The company has been riding on…
