German cruiser SMS Emden that bombarded the city during the WWI on September 22. When World War I broke out in Europe in July 1914, Madras was thousands of kilometres away from the battlefields. Yet there was little certainty among British authorities that the war would remain confined to Europe. The city’s strategic importance as…
Access to nature remains uneven across England, with hundreds of communities lacking convenient routes to green or blue spaces. New analysis by The Wildlife Trusts and Liberal Democrats for Nature and Climate found that 238 parliamentary constituencies, 44% of those in England, have at least 20% of properties located more than a 15-minute walk from…
The land being transferred to SpaceX is part of the 103,000-acre Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. A federal judge has refused to block a land swap that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a wildlife refuge in Texas. The decision allows the Trump administration to move ahead with the exchange while…
The Hanging Coffins at Sagada, PC: Palu Malerba Scattered across remote cliff faces in southern China, wooden coffins have hung suspended for centuries, wedged into rock crevices or resting on driven wooden stakes hundreds of feet above the ground. Who built them, and why they chose height over a conventional grave, remained an open question…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Wednesday observed that there were prima facie “shortcomings” in the trial court’s judgment in the Toshakhana corruption case against Imran Khan and said that the Supreme Court would wait for the Islamabad High Court’s order on the former premier’s appeal against his conviction and the three-year sentence…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan‘s top investigation agency on Saturday declared former prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi guilty in a case related to the alleged disclosure of state secrets, popularly known as the cipher case. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) submitted the chargesheet against Khan, the chairman of the Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party and…
Aichi-Nagoya 2026 – Road Cycling – Women’s Road Race – Final – September 22, 2026. China’s Li Guo and Afghanistan’s Fariba Hashimi in action. Silver medallist Afghanistan’s Fariba Hashimi stands on the podium during the victory ceremony. Afghan cyclist Fariba Hashimi, who disguised herself as a man to pursue cycling as a teenager, won the…
Kawasaki has launched the 2027 Ninja 300 in India at an ex-showroom price of Rs 3.34 lakh, making the entry-level twin-cylinder sportbike Rs 17,000 more expensive than before. While the latest model year update does not bring any mechanical changes, it gets a few cosmetic revisions, updated tyres and fresh graphics. Deliveries of the motorcycle…
In the third episode of #DhanKiBaat, influencer and entrepreneur Ankur Warikoo speaks to four bright young minds from the world of finance on the importance of financial literacy among the youth.Arpit Arora, Founder, AskTheWiseGuyArpit discusses how demographic shifts over time have influenced financial awareness, the need to start investing and understanding of personal finance.Dr Naveen…
