BWF World Championships 2026: Champions (Agency Images) NEW DELHI: The BWF World Championships 2026 came to a dramatic close in New Delhi on Sunday, with five champions crowned across men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles.The tournament, which was held from August 17 to 23, produced historic victories for France and…
Inquiry find lapses in Covid PPE kits procurement Nearly £9.9 billion worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) bought during the Covid-19 pandemic was wasted in the UK, a public inquiry has found. It concluded that the country entered the health crisis with inadequate stockpiles and an emergency procurement system that was ill-prepared for the surge…
“If looking for excuses to not have discussion on NEET, then it is not right”: Kiren Rijiju targets Oppn in RS NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday reiterated in Parliament that it is prepared to hold a discussion on the NEET paper leak case and all related issues, with Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju…
For billions of years, the universe has hidden its strangest secrets in faint, ancient light. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope may have caught one of them: an object from the universe’s infancy that looks like a giant red star, shines with the power of something vastly more luminous than an ordinary star, and may…
Representative Image of a drone tracking a large Burmese python in the lush wetlands of the Everglades ecosystem (AI-generated image) A 16-foot Burmese python weighing 147.9 pounds was included in a US Geological Survey test of drone technology being evaluated for tracking invasive snakes in the Greater Everglades Ecosystem. In material published September 23, 2026,…
Dalal Street is set for a crucial session after the benchmark indices extended their losses in the previous sessions. The market outlook remains shaped by elevated crude oil prices, persistent foreign fund selling, currency movements and global rate expectations. Domestic equities have faced correction-led headwinds, with continued FII outflows and elevated US Treasury yields adding…
In 2006, Australian caver Kim Van Dyke noticed something unusual while walking through a reserve near Buchan in Victoria’s East Gippsland. A small patch of grass was moving, even though the surrounding vegetation was completely still and there was no wind.For most people, the movement might have seemed insignificant. For Van Dyke and her husband,…
Bafta and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Justin Hardy passed away following a heart attack after completing his final film, ‘Wrath of the Gods’.Image credit (Instagram) Justin Hardy, the acclaimed British filmmaker and son of legendary director Robin Hardy, has passed away aged 61 following a heart attack on Friday night. Hardy, a Bafta and Emmy-nominated writer and…
File photo: NEET-UG 2026 leak probe NEW DELHI: Seventy-seven days after it filed an FIR and began a probe into the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case, CBI Tuesday filed a chargesheet against 13 individuals arrested in the case. These include three NTA subject experts, in chemistry, biology and physics. Several middlemen who sourced and distributed…
Fidelity International-backed Eight Roads Investments, Flipkart and IMM India Fund are collectively selling up to 9% stake in Shadowfax MUMBAI: Fidelity International-backed Eight Roads Investments, Flipkart and IMM India Fund are collectively selling up to 9% stake in Shadowfax through block deals worth around $108 million (Rs 1,048 crore), the term sheet of the…
