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Coal block scam case in Supreme Court: Ex-PM Manmohan Singh gets clean chit two years after his death | India News
SC gave clean chit to Manmohan Singh in coal block case NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has given a clean-chit to ex-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the coal block allocation scam case, nearly two years after his demise.A special judge in SC quashed the summoning order and accepted closure reports filed by CBI.The case pertains…
Inside UK’s Buckingham Palace’s £369 million transformation to preserve the 300-year-old UK’s royal residence
Buckingham Palace, the official London residence of the British monarch, is undergoing its biggest infrastructure upgrade in decades as Britain races to preserve one of its most iconic historic properties for future generations.Under the £369 million Reservicing Programme, engineers are replacing ageing electrical wiring, plumbing, heating and communications systems that have served the palace for…
‘Every Indian should be proud of what our youth did’: Top quotes from Rahul Gandhi’s speech in Parliament | India News
NEW DELHI: After nearly a week of logjam, Parliament witnessed a stormy session on Wednesday as leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi praised the recent NEET-UG 2026 paper leak protests, saying, “Every Indian should be proud of what our youth did.”Participating in the debate on the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means)…
Watch: Stormy scenes in Rajya Sabha as Kharge, Nadda clash over police action against student protesters | India News
Kharge said ‘democracy is not safe’, to which Nadda replied ‘it’s a normal situation’ NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed a sharp exchange between Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of the House J.P. Nadda over the police action against students during the July 20 ‘Sansad Chalo’ march, with the Congress alleging…
Khawaja Asif: ‘They’re enemies like India’: Pakistan minister Khawaja Asif justifies killing of over 30 protesters in PoK
“I put the protesters of PojK in the same category as India and consider them as enemies,” Khawaja Asif said. Pakistan defence minister Khawaja Asif said he considered protesters in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) enemies, just as he considered India.“I put the protesters of PojK in the same category as India and consider them…
China lost more than 50% of its mangrove forests by the 2000s, now it has restored 22,500 hectares of the trees becoming one of the few countries on the globe where mangrove coverage is increasing |
Mangroves naturally occur along the southeast Chinese coast and traverse the provinces of Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Taiwan. Thirty-seven mangrove tree species, representing 20 families and 25 genera have been documented in the country. Yet a remarkable decrease of species richness has taken place over the past 40 years in China, with the nation…
Ousted PM Sheikh Hasina plans Bangladesh return: ‘I may be killed, I may be sent to prison’
Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said she was determined to return to her country by December despite facing the possibility of arrest, imprisonment or even execution.The 78-year-old former leader, who has been living in New Delhi since fleeing Bangladesh in August 2024, said she was prepared to face the consequences of returning…
Delhi Police serves notice to X over ‘derogatory’ posts targeting constitutional heads | India News
Delhi police wrote to X seeking removal of ‘abusive’ posts about Constitutional hads NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Wednesday wrote to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, seeking the removal of content allegedly containing “derogatory, malicious and defamatory content” targeting constitutional authorities.In its notice, the police asked the platform to “immediately delete/remove” the alleged post…
‘Gutter mouth, witch’: Rakhi Sawant slams Kangana Ranaut over Gen Z protest remarks | Mumbai News
MUMBAI: Actress Rakhi Sawant has hit back at actor-politician Kangana Ranaut over her remarks on Gen Z student protesters at Jantar Mantar, criticising the latter for speaking against those participating in the agitation.In a video shared on Instagram, Sawant slammed Ranaut and called out her comments on the protesters. She used strong words against Kangana…
Antarctica averages minus 55°C at Vostok Station, yet a Lake Ontario-sized body of water remains liquid beneath four kilometres of ice for fifteen million years |
Antarctica is the coldest continent on Earth, featuring a deadly combination of extreme temperatures, high elevation and ice-covered terrain. The Russian Vostok Station here averages minus 55°C and on July 21, 1983, it recorded the lowest reliably measured air temperature on Earth, −89.2°C.Yet sealed beneath the white ice sheets of the region is a hidden…
