. NEW DELHI: West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Tuesday firmly rejected speculation over the induction of former Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders into the BJP, asserting that the party would not admit “tainted” individuals and that “trinamoolisation of BJP would never happen.”Emphasising that the BJP’s rise in West Bengal had been driven by grassroots…
Derbyshire cave reveals Britain’s earliest known prehistoric artwork / Image: File For years, they were little more than mysterious scratches on a cave wall.Some believed they were accidental marks. Others thought they were too faint and fragmented to hold any real archaeological significance. Now, after detailed scientific analysis and years of research, experts have confirmed…
NEW DELHI: India is learning to live with a hotter future. From Delhi to Mumbai, temperatures are regularly crossing 45 degrees Celsius, heatwaves are lasting longer and cities are becoming giant heat traps due to rapid urbanisation and the growing urban heat island effect.But if there is one thing Indians are famous for, it is…
London tube network hit by fresh strike as commuters face delays / Image: File The morning rush hour arrived with fewer trains, longer queues and growing frustration across London as Tube drivers began a fresh 24-hour strike, disrupting journeys for thousands of commuters across the capital.The walkout, which started shortly after midnight on Tuesday, June…
NEW DELHI: In another big step towards inking the Rafale deal, India has issued the Letter of Request (LoR) to France to finalise the mega defence agreement worth around Rs 3.25 lakh crore for 114 Rafale fighter jets for the IAF.“The Letter of Request was issued last week by the acquisition wing of the defence…
Inside a limestone cave on the Gower Peninsula in south Wales, eleven parallel horizontal lines of red pigment have been sitting on a cave wall for roughly 17,100 years. They were first noticed by scientists in 1912, declared a remarkable example of Palaeolithic cave art, then reclassified as a natural mineral seep sixteen years later,…
Image: Korazim excavation team/Israel Nature and Parks Authority The recent archaeological finding, which was made in northern Israel, comes from an amazing discovery of a gemstone by a 12-year-old who found it while he participated in an excavation project at Korazim National Park. The archaeological gemstone was determined to be a very rare Nicolo gemstone…
A Sri Lankan family living legally in the UK was told its children must leave. A Sri Lankan family living legally in the UK has been told that its two young children must leave the country despite their mother being granted permission to remain until 2031, according to a report by The Guardian.The case involves…
Across the southern United States, rivers tend to blur the line between open water and wild habitat in a way that is hard to separate on a map. Wide channels slip through marshes, cypress stands, and low floodplains, carrying sediment, fish, and submerged vegetation in slow motion. In these same waters, alligators remain a constant…
Donald Trump with Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif and army chief Asim Munir (PTI file photo) Pakistan’s fragile economy is spending an estimated $900,000 every month on lobbying efforts in the United States, taking its annual outlay to roughly $10-12 million, according to public disclosures filed under the US foreign agents registration act (FARA).The spending comes…