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Dubai Municipality and KHDA will plant 20,000 trees across the city to mark 20 years of Sheikh Mohammed’s leadership/Image: WAM Dubai is marking two decades of visionary leadership under His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum with an ambitious environmental initiative. Across parks, neighbourhoods, and schools, 20,000 trees will soon be planted, reflecting a…
A Washington study linked sleep above 6.5 hours to cognitive decline Most of us worry about not sleeping enough, the bleary mornings, the heavy eyelids, the sense of running on fumes. What almost no one considers is the opposite problem: the idea that getting too much sleep might quietly work against your brain. It sounds…
Gold is expected to become costlier after the government’s recent move to raise import duty to 15%. Alongside, the impact is likely to show up in domestic prices as well as trade patterns, a report by SBI Research has predicted.SBI Research said that changes in gold import duty have been made several times in the…
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This week, we take a look at MAGA’s Carthage moment, explain The Odyssey for beginners, decode the 9/11 for sigma males, and finally examine how Dhurandhar reinvented a classic qawwali. MAGA’s Carthage moment Sallust, Julius Caesar’s protégé, argued in Bellum Catilinae that the downfall of the Roman Empire was inevitable after…
Italian authorities have arrested a man of German-Indian origin who led an isolated forest community on Sicily on suspicion of aiding and abetting child abuse, according to Italian news agencies ANSA and Adnkronos. The man presented himself as the community’s spiritual teacher.The suspect is said to have led a group of 15 people, including two…
Can there be a city as evocative—and romantic—as Venice ? As actor and art lover Sharmila Tagore stood and gazed at Paresh Maity’s magnum opus of Venice compositions as resonant embers on canvas as well as dulcet drawings, Art Alive’s unveiling took on shades of memory, experience and historicity. And Sunaina Anand can well pat…
Mukesh Khanna CRITICISES Ranbir Kapoor’s portrayal of Lord Ram in ‘Ramayana’ teaser: ‘I said Schwarzenegger, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Rajinikanth can do this, but Purushottam would never’ Mukesh Khanna has voiced his objection to the way Lord Ram is shown in the upcoming film ‘Ramayana’. The veteran actor said the character should not be…
GATE 2026 admit card: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati has released the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2026 admit card today, January 13, 2026.Candidates who have registered for the GATE 2026 will be able to download their admit card from the official website at gate2026.iitg.ac.in through the GATE Online Application Processing System…
SC did well to liberate voluntary adult sex workers. They’re neither victim nor offender In an excellent judgment, Supreme Court has centred on ‘individual agency’ to decide on a framework for rescue & rehab of adult sex workers. It raised the key question the law skipped: why rescue adult women who are sex workers voluntarily,…
Most of the people think or were raised in a way where they used to think that style stopped at clothes. But turns out it was never like it, it was always about the details around the outfit which does the magic when we say “oh they have an amazing style.” In 2026, what you…
