The female “vampire” with a sickle across her throat found in Pień, Poland PC: Mirosław Blicharski Since 2005, archaeologists have been excavating an unmarked 17th-century cemetery near Pień, close to Ostromecko in Poland, uncovering more than 100 human burials, at least 30 of which show deliberate signs that the dead were pinned down, locked in…
The National Testing Agency (NTA) will close the registration process for the Rashtriya Military School Common Entrance Test (RMS CET) 2026 tomorrow, October 20. Candidates seeking admission to Classes 6 and 9 at Rashtriya Military Schools can submit their application forms through the official examination portal.Candidates who miss the regular deadline can still submit their…
India’s growth momentum remains on a firm footing on the back of resilient domestic demand, despite the global challenges NEW DELHI: The finance ministry on Wednesday said that swifter policy responses and their implementation are critical to encourage foreign and domestic investment in the economy and underlined the need for reimagining responses to deal with…
Nike cartons were redirected using unauthorised UPS labels (Representational photo- Shutterstock) Federal prosecutors in the United States have charged 12 people in an alleged cargo theft conspiracy that diverted at least $2 million worth of Nike shoes from the company’s logistics centre in Memphis, Tennessee.According to a report by Freight Waves, the indictment said the…
In 2015, media mogul Tyler Perry bought 330 acres of Atlanta’s former Fort McPherson Army base for $30 million. Eleven years later, the large site has become one of North America’s biggest production facilities. It has 12 purpose-built sound stages, 40 historic buildings protected under national heritage rules, and 200 acres of open green space….
Image Credit: Raphael Zufferey Nature has given us amphibians in various forms, from frogs to other multi-environment creatures, yet few things transcend the different domains of Earth as remarkably as the diving birds that inspired the MIT and EPFL researchers. For so long, scientists have long dreamt of a machine that can fly through the…
On most nights, streetlights are just background—small circles of brightness cutting through the dark. But for a tiny, overlooked group of creatures living close to the ground, those circles of light can become something far stranger: a kind of glowing trap that draws them into huge, synchronized “death spirals.”That’s what researchers in Israel discovered when…
File photo: Former UK home secretary Priti Patel and fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi LONDON: Former UK home secretary Priti Patel says the Indian government has refused to take back thousands of illegal Indian migrants from Britain because the UK has not extradited fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi.Patel, a Tory, held the position from 2019 to 2022….
File Pic: Harmanpreet Kaur leads out the team. (Getty Images) BENGALURU: With a 137-run win over Hong Kong, India sealed their place in the Women’s Asia Cup semifinals with a match to spare. Their final league outing, however, will be their toughest test yet after they brushed aside minnows Thailand and Hong Kong in their…
NIT Rourkela records 1,340 placement offers in 2025-26 NIT Rourkela placement 2025-26: National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela students received 1,340 placement offers during the 2025-26 placement drive, along with 364 six-month internship offers. Pre-final-year students also secured 258 summer internships, the highest number of such offers recorded in the institute’s history.The B.Tech programme recorded…
