Chief of the Army Staff General Dhiraj Seth during a visit to the forward areas along the Line of Control in Poonch, Rajouri and Sunderbani. (@adgpi/X via PTI Photo) JAMMU: Chief of Army Staff, General Dhiraj Seth, visited forward areas along the Line of Control in J&K’s Rajouri-Poonch belt Thursday to review the region’s security…
Marcus Aurelius (Image: Wikipedia) Two people can sit through the exact same bad day and walk away from it completely differently. One replays every small annoyance until the whole day feels ruined. The other lets most of it go and remembers the one good conversation instead. Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor, wrote about this exact…
Farooq Abdullah (File photo) SRINAGAR: National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah reached across political divides, inviting BJP in J&K, Hurriyat chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Congress and other INDIA bloc politicians to join party’s July 20 protest at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar demanding restoration of statehood to the Union territory.NC spokesperson Tahir Sayeed said Thursday invitations…
Quote of the day by Carl Jung on coincidence and synchronicity, and why one can see the future in dreams. Carl Jung introduced the concept of synchronicity, which means that not everything is a coincidence. The concept says that when several things happen by chance, which we think are just by coincidence, are not actually…
Sperm whales communicate by making clicks Scientists using artificial intelligence (AI) have uncovered a complex communication system among sperm whales, identifying a kind of phonetic alphabet. The discovery comes as experts also found sperm whales living in the eastern Mediterranean Sea have developed a distinct regional dialect that separates them from populations living in the…
JAMMU: Intense rainfall triggered a landslide near Himkoti on the new pilgrimage track leading to Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in J&K’s Reasi district on Wednesday evening, prompting the temporary suspension of the battery car service on the route.The pilgrimage on the old yatra route remained unaffected. Hundreds of devotees continued their journey on the traditional…
Hydrogen-powered flight has often been discussed as one of aviation’s possible long-term answers to cutting emissions, but moving from research programmes to commercial aircraft has remained a difficult task. That landscape may now be beginning to change. As reported in the official press release, Airbus and Germany’s MTU Aero Engines have announced plans to create…
SRINAGAR/JAMMU: J&K govt and University of Kashmir have launched a comprehensive review of books, directing heads of departments and school principals to remove any material deemed “controversial” or “anti-national”.The move follows last week’s withdrawal and political row over a book for govt school libraries that described the region as “India-occupied Kashmir” and “Indian-held Kashmir”, and…
Indonesia is moving into a new phase of its submarine development plans as domestic construction of the first Scorpène Evolved submarine is set to begin this month at PT PAL Indonesia’s shipyard in Surabaya, East Java. The project marks a major step in Jakarta’s effort to strengthen local naval manufacturing capabilities while expanding its submarine…
Football makes people feel things few other games manage. A single goal can lift an entire city. A missed penalty can ruin a Saturday for millions. Somewhere between all that drama and devotion sits a line from Queen Elizabeth II that sums the whole thing up in one breath: “Football’s a difficult business, and aren’t…