Walking through an old-growth forest, you will notice a huge number of tall trees stretching up to the sky in addition to smaller trees growing under the canopy. For many years, it was thought that tall trees would eventually outcompete smaller trees by intercepting almost all of the light coming from the sun. According to…
US stock futures traded mixed on Thursday, July 9, as investors looked past renewed geopolitical tensions in West Asia and shifted their focus to AI-related stocks ahead of South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix’s highly anticipated US market debut. Futures tied to the Nasdaq-100 rose 0.8%, supported by gains in semiconductor stocks, while S&P 500 futures…
A serviceman with Ukraine’s K-2 brigade prepares a midrange drone before flying it toward Russian positions on the front line in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on June 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) The conflict in Ukraine is now nearing the 1,600-day mark. The war has stretched a little longer than the First World War, or the…
Former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal (File photo) NEW DELHI: AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday criticised the Centre over fuel price, saying petrol prices should have fallen as global crude oil prices have declined.Addressing a presser, the former Delhi chief minister accused the government of allowing oil companies to make excessive profits. “Centre allowing oil…
Imagine a material that can cling firmly to wet surfaces, repair itself after being damaged and remain flexible under demanding conditions. That vision has moved closer to reality thanks to researchers in Japan, who have developed a new AI-designed super-adhesive hydrogel with exceptional underwater bonding strength. The breakthrough combines machine learning with laboratory experiments to…
Isaac Newton (Image: Wikipedia) Isaac Newton spent his entire career proving that the universe follows precise, predictable laws. Then he lost a fortune betting on people, and admitted the difference out loud. “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people,” he is reported to have said, after watching his…
NEW DELHI: Four years after the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 set out to recast undergraduate education, research, credit mobility and industry linkages, the first AISHE stocktake of NEP implementation shows an uneven reform map. Only 56% of responding universities have introduced four-year undergraduate programmes, 49% offer multiple entry and exit, 55% participated in NIRF,…
A while ago, reports suggested that Diljit Dosanjh has US citizenship. Though, the singer, actor has never clarified on it. Questions surrounding Diljit Dosanjh’s reported US citizenship resurfaced during a recent Instagram Live session, but the actor-singer avoided giving a direct answer. Instead, he responded with humour when a fan suggested that he apply for…
Most people dream of slowing down by the time they turn 80. Rabindranath Sarkar doesn’t have that luxury.Every morning, while much of Kolkata is just waking up, he gets behind the wheel of a yellow taxi and heads out onto the city’s busy roads. He’s not chasing a career milestone or trying to stay busy…
A simplified know your customer (KYC) process could become the biggest growth driver for India’s mutual fund industry, according to SBI Funds Management, which believes removing onboarding friction could significantly expand the investor base. The country’s largest asset manager says the proposed ‘One Nation, One KYC’ framework could make it much easier for bank customers…
