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EXTENSIVE DAMAGE FEARED AT KEY ENERGY SITES AS IRAN, ISRAEL TRADE BLOWS

Iran attacked energy infrastructure in the Middle East in retaliation against Israeli attacks on it gas facilities, marking the biggest escalation of the nearly three-week war, sparking a 28% surge in European gas prices and 6% jump in oil prices on...

LARGE HADRON COLLIDER DISCOVERS NEW PROTON-LIKE PARTICLE

PARIS: The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world’s most powerful particle smasher, Europe’s CERN physics laboratory announced Tuesday. The new particle has been named “Xi-cc-plus”. Scientists hope...

SCIENTISTS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH IN STUDY OF WHALE SOUNDS

The findings can help us understand better how the animals communicate. Sounds are critical to whales’ survival and important to how they socialise and communicate.

IRAN FIRES BACK AT BASES AND SHIPS DESPITE WAR’S MOST INTENSIVE STRIKES

DUBAI/TEL AVIV: Iran fired at Israel and targets across the West Asia on Wednesday, while at least three ships were hit in the Gulf, demonstrating Tehran can still fight back and disrupt energy supplies despite the most intense US-Israeli strikes...

HEAVIEST DAY OF STRIKES YET ON IRAN DESPITE MARKET BETS TRUMP WILL END WAR SOON

DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON: The United States and Israel pounded Iran on Tuesday with what both the Pentagon and Iranians on the ground described as the most intense airstrikes of the conflict, despite global markets betting that President Donald Trump...

BARBADOS TO AHMEDABAD: INDIA’S ERA OF UNPARALLELED DOMINANCE

NEW DELHI: If Barbados was about breaking a curse, Ahmedabad was about building a kingdom. Simply put, India’s current stranglehold on the shortest format is without precedent in cricketing history. The home team’s 96-run thrashing of New Zealand in...

EXQUISITE FOSSIL OF ONE OF THE SMALLEST DINOSAURS FOUND IN ARGENTINA

Researchers have found a well-preserved and nearly complete skeleton of one of the world’s smallest-known dinosaurs, named Alnashetri cerropoliciensis. It was about the size of a crow and probably hunted small animals like lizards, snakes, mammals and...

ISRAEL TARGETS INFRASTRUCTURE IN LARGE STRIKES ON TEHRAN

DUBAI/JERUSALEM: The US-Israeli campaign against Iran entered its sixth day on Thursday with what residents described as even more intensive bombing, while Iran vowed to retaliate anywhere for a US attack on a ship thousands of miles from the battle...

IRAN CONFLICT WIDENS TO LEBANON; KUWAIT MISTAKENLY SHOOTS DOWN U.S. JETS

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: The US-Israeli air war against Iran expanded on Monday with no end in sight, with Israel attacking Lebanon in response to strikes by Hezbollah, and Tehran firing missiles and drones at Gulf states and a British air base as far away as...

IRAN’S TOP LEADER ALI KHAMENEI KILLED; ISRAEL, IRAN LAUNCH FRESH ATTACKS

JERUSALEM: Israel launched a new wave of strikes on Tehran on Sunday, saying it aimed to dominate the skies after killing Iran’s supreme leader and leaving the Islamic Republic grappling to rebuild its leadership amid its biggest test in five...

PM PAYS TRIBUTES TO HOLOCAUST VICTIMS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accompanied by his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, visited the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem on Thursday. At the Hall of Names, Netanyahu showed Modi the names of his wife Sara’s relatives who had perished in...

SCIENTISTS FIND BLACK HOLE BELCHING YEARS AFTER CHEWING UP STAR

Researchers have found a black hole, residing at the centre of a galaxy far beyond our Milky Way, belching out a fast-moving jet of material after ripping apart and devouring a star that wandered too close. What made this stellar fatal encounter...

PUTIN HAS FAILED TO BREAK UKRAINIANS: ZELENSKY

KYIV: More than a dozen senior European officials were in the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday in a show of support on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine — a grim milestone in a war that has killed tens of thousands of people...

MANIPURI FILM BOONG CLINCHES BEST CHILDREN’S & FAMILY FILM AWARD

LONDON: Quirky Manipuri coming-ofage comedy-drama Boong, produced by Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment, won the prestigious Bafta Award for Best Children’s & Family Film in London on Sunday. The film’s debutant director, Lakshmipriya Devi, made an...

CITCO set to invest ₹7.5 cr on renovation of its hotels

CHANDIGARH: The Chandi- garh Industrial and Tourism Development Corporation (CITCO) is set to invest ₹7.5 crore on the renovation of three of its prominent hotels in the city –Hotel Mountview in Sector 10, Hotel Shivalikview in Sector 17 and Hotel...

PM unveils MANAV vision for AI, bats for stronger guardrails to govern emerging tech

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday outlined an ethical, sovereign, inclusive and globally oriented vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as he pitched India as a central player in the global AI ecosystem and called for stronger...

J&K ENTER RANJI TROPHY FINAL FOR THE FIRST TIME

KALYANI: Sixty seven years after their maiden appearance, Jammu and Kashmir stormed into the Ranji Trophy finals for the first time on Wednesday, upstaging two-time former champions Bengal by six wickets in the semi-finals here to add another historic...

AUSTRALIA, IRELAND EXIT WORLD CUP AS ZIMBABWE GO THROUGH AFTER WASHOUT

KANDY: The 2021 champions Australia were knocked out of the T20 World Cup on Tuesday, with Zimbabwe qualifying for the Super Eights after their match against Ireland was washed out without a ball being bowled in Kandy. Zimbabwe joined Sri Lanka as...

As exams come calling, Chandigarh rolls out helplines

CHANDIGARH: With the Class 10 and 12 board examinations set to commence on February 17, anxiety among students is palpable across the city. For some, the worry centres on unfinished revisions; for others, it is about managing time effectively,...

‘INSIDE OUT’ PLANETARY SYSTEM PUZZLES ASTRONOMERS

The planetary system consists of four planets orbiting a small and dim star. The order of the planets is what caught the attention of scientists. While the innermost planet is rocky, the next two are gaseous and the fourth one, which current planetary...

NEW AI METHOD HELPS IDENTIFY DINOSAURS TO THEIR FOOTPRINTS

WASHINGTON: Footprints are among the most common kind of dinosaur fossils. Sometimes scientists find a single, lonely footprint. Sometimes they come across a chaotic jumble of tracks resembling a dance floor, sort of a dinosaur discotheque. But...

NEWLY DISCOVERED COMET LIKELY TO PROVIDE COSMIC SPECTACLE IN EARLY APRIL

MELBOURNE: A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April. C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely operated telescope in the Atacama desert on...

NASA’S JUNO FINDS JUPITER A TAD SMALLER THAN EARLIER THOUGHT

WASHINGTON: Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. But it turns out that it is not quite as large - by ever so small an amount - as scientists had previously thought. Using new data obtained by Nasa’s robotic Juno spacecraft, scientists...

NASA DELAYS ASTRONAUTS’ LUNAR TRIP UNTIL MARCH AFTER HYDROGEN LEAKS MAR TEST

The leaks cropped up early in Monday’s loading operation and again hours later, ultimately halting the countdown clocks at the fiveminute mark. Launch controllers had wanted to get all the way down to a halfminute in the countdown, but the escaping...

AMRIT UDYAN OPENS FOR PUBLIC VIEWING

The Amrit Udyan -- a veritable paradise for the lovers of flowers, plants and gardens -- opened for public viewing at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. There are a total of five gardens Amrit Udyan, Bal Vatika, Plumeria, Banyan Grove and Babbling...

A FIRST: BAD BUNNY BAGS TOP PRIZE FOR A SPANISH ALBUM; DALAI LAMA WINS IN AUDIO BOOK SECTION

LOS ANGELES: Bad Bunny, the Latino rap star whose forthcoming Super Bowl gig has ignited a culture wars controversy, won the top Grammy prize on Sunday, a first for a Spanish-language album, with Debí Tirar Más Fotos, a celebration of his Puerto Rican...

REFORMS EXPRESS TAKES KARTAVYA PATH

NEW DELHI: Five university townships in the vicinity of major industrial and logistic corridors, girls hostel in every district, setting up of content creator labs in 15,000 schools and 500 colleges and reduction of the tax collection at source (TCS)...

VIJAY CHOWK REVERBERATES WITH INDIAN TUNES

Patriotic tunes such as Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja and Vijay Bharat filled the air at the Raisina Hill during the Beating Retreat ceremony on Thursday. The ceremony also celebrated 150 years of the National Song, Vande Mataram.

UNVEILED: MAP DEPICTING DISTRIBUTION OF DARK MATTER IN UNIVERSE

Ordinary matter makes up stars, planets, people and everything else we can see. But it represents only about 15% of all the matter in the cosmos. The rest is dark matter, which does not emit or reflect light, making it invisible to the human eye and to...

India-EU seal mega FTA; PM describes it as New Delhi’s biggest trade deal ever

NEW DELHI: India and the European Union on Tuesday sealed a landmark free trade agreement – billed as “mother of all deals” – with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the top EU leadership unveiling a grand agenda to leverage trade and defence to shore up...

TRUMP BACKS DOWN ON GREENLAND TARIFFS, SAYS DEAL FRAMEWORK REACHED

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND: US President Donald Trump abruptly stepped back on Wednesday from threats to impose tariffs as leverage to seize Greenland, ruled out the use of force and suggested a deal was in sight to end a dispute over the Danish territory that...

NATO SHOULD ALLOW U.S. TO TAKE GREENLAND BUT WON’T USE FORCE, TRUMP SAYS AT WEF

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND: President Donald Trump insisted he wants to “get Greenland, including right, title and ownership,” but he said he wouldn’t employ force to achieve that — using his speech on Wednesday at the World Economic Forum to repeatedly deride...

IMF ups projected GDP growth to 7.3% for 2025-’26, forecasts 6.4% for fiscal 2026-’27

NEW DELHI: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday raised India’s growth projection to 7.3% for fiscal 2025-26, up 0.7 percentage point from its October forecast, on the back of better-than-expected performance of the economy. The...

NASA BRINGS FOUR ASTRONAUTS BACK TO EARTH IN 1ST MEDICAL EVACUATION FROM ISS

Launched in August, Cardman, Fincke, Japan’s Kimiya Yui and Russia’s Oleg Platonov should have remained on the space station until mid-February. But on Jan. 7, Nasa abruptly cancelled the next day’s spacewalk by Cardman and Fincke and later announced...

CITIES ACROSS GUJARAT KEEP UTTARAYAN KITE FLYING TRADITION ALIVE

The passion for kite flying will climax across many parts of India on Wednesday as thousands will fly colourful creations to coincide with the harvest festival or Makar Sankranti. Today also marks the end of the three-day International Kite Festival in...

DARK MATTER MAY INTERACT WITH NEUTRINOS, CHALLENGING STANDARD MODEL OF UNIVERSE, FINDS STUDY

LONDON: Scientists have moved a step closer to solving one of the universe’s biggest mysteries, with new research suggesting that dark matter and neutrinos –– two of its least understood components –– may interact with each other, offering a rare...

Qaumi Insaaf Morcha completes three years of protest

MOHALI : The Qaumi Insaaf Morcha on Wednesday completed three years of its sit-in protest at Yadavindra Public School (YPS) Chowk on the Chandigarh–Mohali border, with the stretch continuing to remain partially blocked, causing inconvenience to...

OCEANS STRUGGLING TO ABSORB CO2 AMID MICROPLASTIC POLLUTION: STUDY

An ocean transfers carbon from the atmosphere into the deep sea layers through a process called biological carbon pumping. Now, microplastics, which are found even in the deep seas, are interfering with this process by cutting phytoplankton...

FROZEN DELIGHT: ICE SCULPTORS CREATE MAGIC AT HARBIN’S ANNUAL FESTIVAL

Each January, an odd and beautiful thing happens in the frigid northeastern Chinese city of Harbin when sculptors converge on the capital of Heilongjiang province to compete for the best ice sculpture of the year. The effect is dreamlike. Sculptures...

U.S. TO RUN S AMERICAN NATION FOR NOW, SAYS TRUMP AFTER MADURO’S CAPTURE

NEW YORK: Venezuela’s toppled leader Nicolas Maduro was in a New York detention centre on Sunday awaiting drug charges after President Donald Trump ordered an audacious raid to capture him, saying the US would take control of the oilproducing...

WORLD WELCOMES 2026 WITH EXUBERANCE AND JUBILATION

As Wednesday turned to Thursday, people around the world said goodbye to a challenging 2025 and expressed hopes for the New Year to bring in good times. Revellers around the world rang in 2026 with exuberant celebrations filled with thunderous...

Indian Army to showcase first-ever animal contingent during 2026 Republic Day parade

NEW DELHI: For the first time India will witness a rare and powerful sight on Republic Day 2026 as animals of the Indian Army will march proudly along Kartavya Path, symbolising endurance, sacrifice and India’s unique high-altitude military...

GOODBYE 2025

From battlefronts in Ukraine to the destruction in Gaza, 2025 was marked by conflict, political upheaval and extreme weather across the globe. The year saw Trump’s meetings on the world stage, the election of Pope Leo XIV, widespread unrest from Africa...

WORLD CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS, POPE PRAYS FOR PEACE AND HARMONY

VATICAN CITY: Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of...

HT WISHES ITS READERS A MERRY CHRISTMAS

How does your Christmas look? Is there a star-lit tree, the crinkle of wrapping paper and a heap of gifts? Or the quiet flickering of lights and gentle hum of carols in the air? However one celebrates, chances are there are ancient rites, pagan...

‘BOREDOM IS GOOD FOR MENTAL HEALTH, BENEFITS PERSONAL GROWTH’

Psychologists have found that experience of boredom can lead to discovering new goals and trying new activities. Boredom also offers a brain boost that can cultivate a child’s innate curiosity and creativity. Children who are rarely bored will not be...

THOUSANDS CELEBRATE WINTER SOLSTICE

Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the Sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on Sunday, the winter solstice. The crowds, many in costume, had gathered before dawn, waiting patiently in the dark and cold field in southwest...

NASA STUDY SHOWS HOW SATELLITE ‘LIGHT POLLUTION’ HINDERS SPACE TELESCOPES

Researchers said about 40% of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and about 96% of those taken by the SPHEREx observatory could be contaminated by light from satellites. They also calculated that about 96% of images from the ARRAKIHS observatory...

THOUSANDS OF GLACIERS TO MELT EACH YEAR BY MID-CENTURY: STUDY

PARIS : Thousands of glaciers will vanish each year in the coming decades, leaving only a fraction standing by the end of the century unless global warming is curbed, a study showed on Monday. Government action on climate change could determine...

MESSI ENTHRALS THOUSANDS IN DELHI; TOUR ENDS ON JOYFUL NOTE

NEW DELHI: The Lionel Messi G.O.A.T. India Tour that began in shambolic fashion ended in a blaze of glory as fans gathered in large numbers here to catch a glimpse of a man that does things on the field that are often beyond human comprehension. Most...

DELHI CHOKES UNDER DENSE SMOG, GRAP-IV IN FORCE

HUMANS CREATED FIRE 400,000 YEARS AGO, EARLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT: STUDY

Excited scientists announced on Wednesday they have discovered evidence in the UK of humans deliberately making fire 400,000 years ago, dramatically pushing back the timeline for when our ancient relatives are known to have mastered this crucial...