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Saudi schoolboy surprises classmates by distributing gold jewellery from his family home drawer/Representative Image A quiet school day in Riyadh took an unexpected turn when a primary school pupil arrived carrying something far more valuable than homework. According to a report by Gulf News, the child had brought pieces of gold jewellery from his family…
The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) has reported a strong performance in the Class 10 board exams this year. With an overall pass percentage of 95.27 per cent, the results show that high scores are not limited to a few pockets, but they are spread across the state.Gumla has emerged as the top-performing district, recording an…
Barely two years after Wayanad witnessed one of India’s worst landslide disasters, another mountainside has collapsed. This time it is at the site of one of Kerala’s most ambitious infrastructure projects — the Wayanad Twin Tunnel — in the same Vellarimala ranges that witnessed the Mundakkai-Chooralmala tragedy. At the time of writing this article, six…
In most cases, a name of a house becomes one of the first things that impresses visitors. Thus, if you want to choose a name that would reflect your values, personality, and goals, then a regal name inspired by Indian traditions is definitely an option worth considering. With such a name, you will be able…
NEW DELHI: Amid the escalating West Asia conflict, the government on Wednesday said around 2.6 lakh people have returned from the region to India since February 28. At an inter-ministerial briefing here on the West Asia situation, Additional Secretary (Gulf), ministry of external affairs (MEA), Aseem R Mahajan, said that on Wednesday, around 70 flights…
Tax experts believe that while the new income tax regime reduces the tax outgo for many taxpayers, the multiple slabs add to confusion. (AI image) Budget 2026 income tax expectations: Taxpayers in India are looking at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s speech for announcements related to simplification of income tax slabs, returns, compliance and more. India…
NEW DELHI: Delhi girl Devina Gahlot, 17, from DPS Vasant Kunj, with 100 percentile in three (economics, political science and psychology) of her five subjects and an aggregate of 1232.19, is this year’s CUET-UG topper. The second topper, Saksham Goel, with an aggregate of 1230.82, too is from Delhi, while Udit Chaturvedi (1207.21), ranked third,…
Chengrung Koren will now step into the Road to UFC Season 5 quarterfinals at Galaxy Arena, Macau, against the undefeated Japanese bantamweight Ryuho Miyaguchi (Photo: UFC/Instagram) In 2025, Chungreng Koren was close to realising his dream of making it to the UFC. Not directly, not yet, but through the Road to UFC tournament, the UFC’s…
A silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) displaying the dark coat with silvery guard hairs characteristic of this red fox color variant. Credits – Wikimedia Commons In 1959, Soviet geneticist Dmitri Belyaev began an experiment designed to study domestication as it happened. He selected silver foxes, a color variant of the red fox that had long been…
