Ask someone what they remember about homemade ghee, and chances are they won’t begin with its health benefits or religious significance. They’ll remember the smell drifting through the house as their grandmother prepared it, the extra spoonful secretly added to dal by their mother, or hot rotis arriving straight from the tawa with melting ghee…
A groundbreaking study by Linda Losurdo, a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, successfully simulated extreme chemical environments in space in the lab. By combining nitrogen, carbon dioxide and acetylene in high-voltage electrical plasma, she recreated a fragment of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust from scratch. The findings…
SRINAGAR: Hundreds of students and parents hit the streets in south Kashmir’s Shopian Thursday against the closure of Jamia Siraj-ul-Uloom. J&K authorities had declared the Shopian-based educational institute unlawful last month over alleged links with the banned Jamaat-e-Islami and charges of “fostering an environment conducive to radicalisation”.The protesters demanded reopening of the institution and expressed…
Manuel Neuer attends a training session. (AP Photo) Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has confirmed that he will retire from international football after the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup 2026, bringing an end to one of the most iconic careers in modern football.The 40-year-old, a key figure in Germany’s 2014 World Cup triumph, made the…
NEW DELHI: The Centre reportedly plans to increase the Lok Sabha seats to a maximum of 850 seats to operationalise 33 per cent reservation for women before the 2029 parliamentary elections. According to the draft Constitution amendment bill, the proposal of which is set to be introduced during a special sitting of Parliament beginning April…
Some couples do not just make you believe in love, they make you believe in a version of it that is bigger, more patient, and more quietly devastating than anything you thought a screen could hold. These are the pairs whose chemistry rewrote the rules of what a romantic lead could be and what a…
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries (RIL) will bankroll the first new oil refinery project in the US in 50 years, marking one of its biggest overseas bets and a return to the American energy market after four years.America First Refining (AFR), the startup developing the refinery at the Brownsville port in Texas, said it received a “nine-figure…
Asian equities opened higher on Tuesday, April 14, following gains on the S&P 500 overnight, as comments from US President Donald Trump raised hopes of a potential deal with Iran, even as a US blockade of the Strait of Hormuz came into effect. Markets in Japan, South Korea and Australia advanced, with the broader MSCI…
Filmmaker-choreographer Farah Khan recently spoke about her equation with Bollywood’s three biggest superstars — Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan and Aamir Khan — revealing that while she shares a warm bond with Shah Rukh and Salman, she never became very close to Aamir. Filmmaker-choreographer Farah Khan recently spoke about her equation with Bollywood’s three biggest…
Suvendu Adhikari with Amit Shah NEW DELHI: In 2021 what seemed largely impossible, five years later it became exhaustively debatable. Can Suvendu Adhikari defeat Mamata in home turf Bhabanipur? The question gained political legitimacy in 2026 given the nail-biting contest in 2021 Nandigram battle, where Mamata had challenged her ex-protege.Taking the battle to Suvendu’s bastion…
