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274 CLIMBERS SCALE MT EVEREST IN ONE DAY!

A record number of 274 climbers, including three Indians, scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday. It is the highest number ever to reach the world’s tallest peak on the same day from the Nepal side, a hiking official said.

ARSENAL WIN PREMIER LEAGUE AFTER 22 YRS

LONDON: Arsenal’s decades-long wait is over. Mikel Arteta’s team was crowned Premier League champion for the first time since 2004 on Tuesday after Manchester City drew 1-1 with Bournemouth. “I told you all.. it’s done,” Arsenal midfielder Declan...

DAILY MOVEMENT KEY TO BETTER MOOD: DATA

NEW DELHI: An international study that analysed data from 67 research groups worldwide, involving over three lakh real-time mood reports, on how physical activity is related to good mood and positive emotions has found that for most people, mood...

Dry and hot conditions to persist across north-west, central India over next week

NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a heatwave warning for several parts of the north-west and central India, forecasting temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius (°C), with dry and hot conditions over the next...

REMAINS OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA’S LARGEST DINOSAUR UNEARTHED IN THAILAND

Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a planteating behemoth almost 90 feet long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer size. This was Nagatitan...

‘Lebanon to press Israel to cease fire at talks in Washington’

BEIRUT: Lebanon will demand Israel cease fire at face-to-face talks in Washington on Thursday, a senior Lebanese official said, as Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel continued to trade blows despite a US-backed truce declared last month. The talks...

Pass percentage falls 3.19 pts; lowest since Covid era; views vary on reasons behind it

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday declared the Class 12 board examination results for 2026, with the overall pass percentage falling to 85.20%, down 3.19 percentage points from 88.39% last year, despite nearly...

Paper leak allegations: NTA says dates for retest will be announced in 7-10 days

NEW DELHI: The NEET (UG) 2026 examination held on May 3 was cancelled on Tuesday amid allegations of paper leak with the CBI registering an FIR after the government asked it to carry out a comprehensive inquiry into the “irregularities”. The National...

Pokhran nuke tests reflected India’s scientific excellence: PM on National Technology Day

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday greeted people on the National Technology Day – which commemorates the momentous events of May 11, 1998, when India conducted successful nuclear tests at Rajasthan’s Pokhran – and said technology has...

DEEPIKA LEADS RECURVE TEAM TO HISTORIC GOLD; INDIA FINISH WITH TWO MEDALS

SHANGHAI: The Indian trio of Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and teenager Kumkum Mohod held their nerve in a tense shoot-off to beat home favourites China and clinch the women’s recurve team gold medal at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 here on Sunday. In...

PSG EDGE BAYERN TO ENTER ITS SECOND SUCCESSIVE FINAL; TITLE CLASH WITH ARSENAL

MUNICH: Holders Paris Saint-Germain set up a Champions League final against Arsenal after a 1-1 second-leg draw at Bayern Munich secured a 6-5 aggregate victory on Wednesday. PSG exploded on the counter less than three minutes in and Ballon d’Or...

SAKA BREACHES ATLETICO CITADEL, ENDING ARSENAL’S 20-YEAR WAIT TO ENTER FINAL

LONDON: Arsenal reached the Champions League final for the first time in 20 years as Bukayo Saka sealed a 1-0 win against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday. Mikel Arteta’s side settled the semi-final second leg with Saka’s strike late in the first half at an...

People’s power has prevailed; politics of good governance has triumphed: Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said people’s power prevailed and the BJP’s politics of good governance triumphed in West Bengal, while in Assam, the NDA’s win illustrated the unwavering support for the ruling alliance’s emphasis on...

Nine dead as fire breaks out in residential building in E Delhi

NEW DELHI: A fire ripped through a residential building in east Delhi’s Vivek Vihar early Sunday, leaving nine people from two families dead, including a toddler, officials said. The incident was reported at 3.48 am at a four-storey building in Vivek...

TROPICAL FOREST LOSS FELL 36% IN 2025 AFTER HITTING RECORD HIGH IN 2024: U.S. DATA

New data from the US shows that the loss of primary humid tropical forests slowed down in 2025. But it was still 46% higher than a decade earlier, and last year saw a relative lull in wildfires after a bad year in 2024. Agriculture was the biggest...

GOALS GALORE AS PSG BEATS BAYERN 5-4 IN RECORD-SETTING SEMI-FINAL

Titleholder Paris Saint-Germain trailed early, led by three goals and ultimately held on for a pulsating 5-4 win over Bayern Munich in the highest-scoring semifinal match in Champions League history. And there’s still next week’s second leg to...

PM inaugurates development projects worth ₹4,000 cr on first day of Sikkim tour

GANGTOK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day tour of Sikkim, played football with some boys and girls here on Tuesday morning, and described the soccer session as “energising”. Modi shared on social media a few photographs in which he is...

PAK STILL WORKING TO BRIDGE U.S., IRAN GAPS DESPITE FAILURE OF FACE-TO-FACE TALKS

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Work has not halted to bridge gaps between the United States and Iran, sources from mediator Pakistan said, despite the failure of face-to-face diplomacy after Donald Trump called off a trip by his envoys and said Iran should...

TRUMP SAFE AFTER SHOOTING AT WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington by Secret Service agents on Saturday night after a man opened fire on security personnel nearby. The...

MANCHESTER CITY SOAR TO THE TOP, BURNLEY RELEGATED

BURNLEY: Manchester City edged ahead of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League as a 1-0 victory at Turf Moor condemned Burnley to relegation on Wednesday. The defeat confirmed the Clarets’ third Premier League relegation in five seasons, consigning...

EXTREME WEATHER A GROWING THREAT TO POLLS AND DEMOCRACY: REPORT

STOCKHOLM: Floods, fires and extreme weather increasingly pose a threat to democracy, with at least 94 elections and referendums in 52 countries disrupted by natural hazards over the past two decades, a report published Wednesday said. Between 2006...

INDIA JOINS IN CELEBRATING ‘OUR POWER, OUR PLANET’

World Earth Day, which falls on April 22, is observed across the globe annually to demonstrate support for environmental protection. This year’s theme is Our Power, Our Planet, emphasising collective community action, reducing plastic use and advancing...

CEASEFIRE AT RISK AFTER U.S. SEIZES IRANIAN SHIP; TEHRAN SHUNS PEACE TALKS

DUBAI: A ceasefire between the United States and Iran appeared in jeopardy on Monday after the United States said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to run its blockade and Tehran vowed to retaliate, refusing for now to join new peace...

U.S. NEGOTIATORS WILL BE IN PAKISTAN ON MONDAY FOR TALKS WITH IRAN: TRUMP

WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump said that US negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for talks with Iran, lifting hopes of extending a ceasefire set to expire this week even as Washington and Tehran remain locked in a standoff over the Strait...

HOPES FOR DEAL TO END IRAN WAR GROW, BUT NUCLEAR ISSUES STILL UNRESOLVED

JERUSALEM/ISLAMABAD: Optimism grew on Thursday that the Iran war may be near an end, with a key Pakistani mediator having made a breakthrough on “sticky issues”, a source said, although Iran warned the fate of its nuclear program had not been...

Class 10: Trivandrum, Vijayawada top with 99.79% pass percentage; Delhi logs 97.38%

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday declared the Class 10 results for 2026, recording a marginal improvement of 0.04 percentage points in overall performance, with 93.70% students passing this year compared to 93.66%...

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING INCREASING EARTH’S BRIGHTNESS AT NIGHT: DATA

Daily satellite observations have revealed a continued nighttime brightening globally due to artificial lighting, with important regional variations including a surge in sub-Saharan Africa and South-east Asia alongside a deliberate dimming in Europe...

IRAN THREATENS TO RETALIATE AGAINST GULF PORTS FOR U.S. BLOCKADE

WASHINGTON/DUBAI: The US military said it will begin a blockade of ships leaving Iran’s ports on Monday, and Tehran threatened to retaliate against ports of its Gulf neighbours after weekend talks on ending the war broke down, putting a ceasefire at...

MELLIFLUOUS VOICE FALLS SILENT: ASHA BHOSLE NO MORE

Asha Bhosle’s sensuous and soulful voice struck a million emotive chords down generations, the one they woke up to in the morning, tuned into at night, romanced and mourned loves that were never to be, and also jived and rock and rolled to. One half...

CEASEFIRE TEETERS IN FACE OF DISAGREEMENTS OVER LEBANON AND HORMUZ

A tentative ceasefire in the Iran war staggered Thursday under the weight of Israel’s intense bombardment of Beirut, Tehran’s continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, and uncertainty over whether negotiators can find common ground on a range of...

U.S., ISRAEL AND IRAN AGREE TO 2-WEEK CEASEFIRE BUT STRAY ATTACKS CONTINUE

TEHRAN: Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire, an 11th-hour deal that allowed US President Donald Trump to pull back from his threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization. Hours after the...

ARTEMIS II BREAKS APOLLO 13’S DISTANCE RECORD WITH DARING MOON FLYBY

HOUSTON: After travelling deeper into space than any other humans, the Artemis II astronauts pointed their moonship toward home Monday night, wrapping up a lunar cruise that revealed views of the far side never beheld by eyes until now. Their flyby of...

U.S., IRAN STUDY CEASEFIRE PLAN AS TRUMP’S ‘HELL’ WARNING NEARS DEADLINE

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: On the eve of a US deadline, the United States and Iran on Monday were weighing the framework of a plan to end their fiveweek-old conflict, even as Tehran pushed back against pressure to swiftly reopen the Strait of Hormuz. President...

ARTEMIS ASTRONAUTS GLIMPSE MOON’S ‘GRAND CANYON’ AHEAD OF LUNAR FLYBY

HOUSTON: The Artemis astronauts have taken in sights of the Moon never before seen by human eyes, crew members reported on Sunday as their spacecraft crossed the twothirds mark on their journey to a long-anticipated lunar flyby. As the astronauts went...

ASTRONAUTS REACH SAFE ORBIT IN HISTORIC MOON MISSION

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ARTEMIS II MISSION: REACHING FOR THE MOON

U.S. SAYS COMING DAYS IN IRAN WAR WILL BE DECISIVE, URGES TEHRAN TO MAKE A DEAL

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday the next few days in the war against Iran would be decisive and warned Tehran that the conflict would intensify if it did not make a deal. Hegseth issued his warning hours after...

IRAN TERMS U.S. PEACE PROPOSALS UNREALISTIC, TRUMP ISSUES FRESH WARNING TO TEHRAN

TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD : President Donald Trump warned on Monday that Iran’s energy plants and oil wells would be obliterated if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran described US peace proposals as unrealistic and fired waves of...

IRAN WARNS U.S. OVER GROUND ATTACK

Iran said it was ready to respond to a US ground attack, accusing Washington on Sunday of preparing a land assault even as it sought negotiations and as regional powers held talks in Pakistan to try to end the fighting. The foreign ministers of...

U.S. JURY FINDS META, YOUTUBE LIABLE IN SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION TRIAL

Shares of Meta closed up 0.3%, and Google parent Alphabet finished 0.2% higher. US law strongly protects social media companies from liability for what is on their platforms, but the plaintiff in the Los Angeles proceeding focused on platform design...

NASA PLANS MOON BASE, NUKE SPACECRAFT IN PROGRAMME EXPANSION

WASHINGTON: Nasa announced on Tuesday it has cancelled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use components from the project to build a $20-billion base on the Moon’s surface, while also planning to send a nuclear-powered...

IRAN RAINS MISSILES ONTO ISRAEL, MAKES A JIBE AT TRUMP’S CLAIM ON STRAIT

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV: Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday, a day after US President Donald Trump said there had been “very good and productive” talks aiming at halting the war unleashed by the US and Israel now raging across...

HIMALAYAN GLACIERS’ ICE LOSS RATES DOUBLED SINCE 2000: MAJOR REPORTS

The Himalayan mountain range holds the largest volume of ice outside the poles, the report said, adding that these are also the source of at least 10 major Asian river systems, supporting the food, water, energy, and livelihood security of billions of...

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

LARGE HADRON COLLIDER DISCOVERS NEW PROTON-LIKE PARTICLE

WITH SIX AWARDS, PAUL ANDERSON WINS ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

LOS ANGELES: The darkly comic thriller One Battle After Another won Best Picture at the Academy Awards, leading a haul of six trophies on a Sunday night when Hollywood handed its top movie honours to unconventional stories. The offbeat tale of...

ENVIRONMENT, ANOTHER CASUALTY OF WEST ASIA WAR

PARIS: From the jet fuel used in bombing raids to acrid smoke from burning oil depots, the conflict in the West Asia is inflicting a significant toll on nature and the climate. This news agency interviewed experts about the environmental cost of war...

OIL TANKERS BURN AS IRANIAN STRIKES DEFY TRUMP’S CLAIM TO HAVE WON WAR

DUBAI/HEBRON, KENTUCKY: Two tankers were ablaze in an Iraqi port on Thursday after a hit by suspected Iranian explosive-laden boats, a step up in attacks that have cut off oil from West Asia and defied Donald Trump’s claim to have won the war. Images...

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...

Iran rejects US claims on its missiles and nuclear programme

TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry on Wednesday dismissed US claims about its missile programme as big lies, after President Donald Trump said Tehran was developing missiles that can strike the United States. “Whatever they’re alleging in regards to...

Govt to launch HPV vax against cancer for girls aged 14; to use single-shot Gardasil

NEW DELHI: In a major step towards eliminating preventable cancers among women, the Union government will soon launch a nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme for girls aged 14, official sources said on Tuesday. According to...

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...

FOSSILS OF SPINOSAURUS, A NEW DINOSAUR SPECIES, UNEARTHED IN NIGER

Spinosaurus, the only known semiaquatic dinosaur predator, presented a striking profile on the Cretaceous Period landscape of Africa 95 million years ago as it hunted large fish like coelacanths. Its bony cranial crest, about 20 inches tall, resembled...

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...

Russia and Ukraine land in focus at Geneva peace talks

GENEVA: Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia gathered in Geneva on Tuesday for two days of US-mediated peace talks that will focus on the main sticking point of land, with US President Donald Trump pressing Kyiv to act fast to reach a deal. Trump is...

CBSC, CISCE Classes 10, 12 board exams begin today; CBSE Class 10 students must appear in first of two board exams

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) students will take the Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations from today. More than 43.7 lakh students will appear for the...

‘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...