The operation allowed 15–20 tankers to move through a southern channel of the strait each night under US military guidance. The US military secretly helped commercial tankers navigate the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks despite Iran’s closure of the strategic waterway. The operation allowed millions of barrels of oil to reach global markets each…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday constituted a 5-member High-Powered Enquiry Committee to examine the allegations of excessive use of force by police, and paramilitary force on students during July 20 Sansad Chalo march organised by Cockroach Janata Party.The committee will be headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice R. Subhash Reddy. The other…
At 18, Michael Haskell has been turning other people’s abandoned belongings into a business that brought in about $135,000 in 2025. He buys storage units across the New York tri-state area without knowing exactly what is inside, then sorts through the contents looking for objects that can be resold. The idea grew from a habit…
Queen Victoria, PC: Wikipedia Two people can be handed sudden, unwanted responsibility and respond to it in completely different ways. One treats their own inexperience as a disqualifying weakness, something to apologise for or hide behind until they feel fully ready. The other names the inexperience plainly, out loud or in private, and commits to…
Former Congress MP Sajjan Kumar has died, Safdarjung Hospital authorities confirmed. NEW DELHI: Former Congress leader and 1984 anti-Sikh riots convict Sajjan Kumar died in Tihar jail on Thursday at the age of 80.Kumar was brought dead to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital, news agency ANI reported, citing sources.The three-time parliamentarian was serving a life sentence in…
Elizabeth Dickens (Image Credit: Rhode Island Natural History Survey) In 1912, a Rhode Island woman began recording every day’s bird sightings on Block Island. What started as a personal habit continued for more than five decades,creating a remarkable record of the island’s birdlife, migration patterns and seasonal changes. Her name was Elizabeth Dickens, a self-taught…
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Image: World Green Building Council In Freiburg, south-west Germany, a city hall has been designed to do something unusual for a government building: produce more energy than it consumes. Completed in 2017, the city’s latest town hall combines high-performance solar panels with an energy-efficient design that sharply reduces the building’s demand for heating, cooling, ventilation…
Harwinder Singh and Riya Riya arrested on 12th August/Image: Peel Regional Police An Indian-origin man and woman have been arrested in Brampton, Canada, after a person was allegedly threatened and forced to transfer $6,000 during a date.According to Peel Regional Police, the victim was contacted in July through an online messaging platform by an individual…
(Photo: @himalayanhindu/ X) A viral video showing a group of men dancing to loud music inside a cave in Dehradun has drawn sharp criticism online, with users calling out what they described as a lack of civic sense at a shared tourist spot.The clip, shared on X by an account named @himalayanhindu, was reportedly filmed…