After bringing all crew members into the ‘citadel’, the master of the Golden Arsenal sought help from the Indian Navy, which responded swiftly to the distress call (Representative image) NEW DELHI: On July 1, an attack by pirates on an India-bound bulk carrier, Golden Arsenal, in the Gulf of Aden was foiled after the captain…
An Indian-origin transgender, non-binary Scottish Greens MSP has come under fire after a clip from a podcast interview recorded last year resurfaced on social media and went viral.Q Manivannan, who was elected to the Scottish Parliament in May, made the comments during an episode of The Subjective Space, a podcast hosted by Dr Sindhu Rajasekaran….
Cloud aerosols on Venus contain far more water than scientists have assumed for decades, alongside comparable amounts of iron sulfate and sulfuric acid. Researchers led by R. Mogul revisited previously uncharacterised data from the Pioneer Venus Large Probe, which descended through the planet’s atmosphere in 1978, and found that the probe’s instruments had unknowingly captured…
‘GDN’ box office collection day 2 R. Madhavan’s ‘GDN’ recorded an improvement in its box office performance on the second day of its theatrical run. The period drama, based on the life of inventor G. D. Naidu, registered a higher collection on Saturday.According to Sacnilk, ‘GDN’ earned Rs 84 lakhs net in India on Day…
The home is like a pond in the aftermath of rain. It is filled with calm, peace, and surprisingly alive. Jupiter is the god of your home and the Moon helps you feel comfortable and takes care of things to do with property and the day is a source of warmth from the inside.Your home’s…
Burmese pythons are an invasive species in Florida Tom Rahill, the 69-year-old veteran hunter, won this year’s Florida Python Challenge by catching 96 pythons individually, Fox News reported.For over 10 days, 907 participants combed the Everglades and pulled out 280 invasive Burmese pythons this year.Just months earlier, in January, contracted hunter Carl Jackson and his…
Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan has spoken about how fake news and online trolling can spread quickly, recalling an incident involving Pakistan cricketer Babar Azam during the 2023 ODI World Cup.Pathan said a false story claimed Babar had refused to give him an interview because of his alleged comments about Pakistan. According to Pathan, the…
Pradhan said he “suffered” because of Gen Z’s stubbornness but had come to realise that the new generation must be understood rather than resisted BHUBANESWAR: Former Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday described Gen Z as a force that cannot be ignored, saying he had told PM Narendra Modi that the responsibilities of an…
Vikram Mubayi, a chemical engineering PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), died after going missing during a solo hike in California’s Eastern Sierra, with his family now left seeking answers over what happened.Mubayi’s brother, who had earlier appealed for help on Reddit, later shared an update confirming that search-and-rescue teams had…
In 1849, Italian-born inventor Antonio Meucci began developing an early voice-transmission device that would later be known as the “teletrofono.” Decades of experimentation, financial hardship and a lapsed patent caveat meant that credit for the telephone ultimately went to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Meucci’s story, however, did not end there. Nearly 113 years after…