UK’s most wanted fugitive arrested in Spain. A Scottish man listed among the UK’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Spain over allegations of multiple sexual assaults spanning a decade, BBC reported.John Rocks, 37, was detained in Madrid on Saturday by Spain’s National Police. He is wanted by Scotland police in connection with alleged…
Representative Image of an underwater archaeological site beneath Dicle Dam Lake (AI-generated image) Beneath the still waters of Dicle Dam Lake in southeastern Turkey, an entire neighbourhood of stone houses, a mosque, a religious school and rock-cut tombs has sat largely undisturbed since the reservoir was filled nearly three decades ago. In recent months, a…
Representative Image of the newly discovered Demon Cavefish in a dark underwater cave (Image of University of Alabama at Huntsville) For more than three decades, biologists have carried out quarterly surveys of Bobcat Cave in northern Alabama, a site that sits beneath the secured grounds of the US Army’s Redstone Arsenal and is already home…
Union minister Kiren Rijiju announces special session of Parliament NEW DELHI: Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday announced that Parliament will convene a three-day special session from August 16 to 18 to consider the Women’s Reservation and Delimitation Bills.He clarified that the special sitting will be separate from the ongoing Monsoon Session, which commenced on…
President Donald Trump speaks as FIFA President Gianni Infantino listens at a reception at Trump Tower in New York, Friday, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) US President Donald Trump is reportedly prepared to do “everything possible” to help Gianni Infantino remain FIFA president as the football governing body’s chief faces the biggest leadership crisis…
Life-size dolls seated in a classroom PC: Fritz Schumann High in the mountains of Shikoku, in Japan’s Tokushima Prefecture, sits Nagoro, a village that once had over 300 residents and now has fewer than 30. What makes Nagoro unusual is not simply its decline, a familiar story across rural Japan, but what one resident chose…
File photo: BJP MP Sambit Patra addresses a press conference in New Delhi NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday hit back at Congress leader and leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi over his allegations of police excesses during the July 20 ‘Sansad Chalo’ student protest, accusing him of spreading a “false…
Representative Image of lush urban greenery shading a busy street in Singapore (AI-generated image) As cities across the tropics search for ways to cope with rising temperatures, Singapore has increasingly turned to a familiar, low-tech solution: trees. A specific figure keeps surfacing in planning documents and public discussion: the claim that shading a street with…
Filmmaker Rajkumar Santoshi has created excitement around his upcoming directorial ‘Batwara 1947’, promising an intense cinematic experience for audiences. The director revealed that Sunny Deol will appear in one of his boldest and most challenging roles yet, adding that the film will offer a story and performance unlike anything viewers have seen before. Rajkumar Santoshi…
Over 3,000 cases of deadly fungus Candida auris reported in US. More than 3,100 cases of Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus that can cause life-threatening infections, have been reported across 23 states in the United States so far this year, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The…