(From left) Tapan Mohanty, Rakesh Patra and Tapeshwarnath Das in Glasgow As the Indian gymnasts begin their Commonwealth Games campaign in Glasgow on Friday, two young athletes from Puri, Odisha, will be looking to make their mark on one of the biggest stages of their careers.Tapan Mohanty and Tapeshwarnath Das both took up gymnastics at…
A newly released report warns about the perils of temporarily surpassing the critical 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit. A newly released report warns about the perils of temporarily surpassing the critical 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit. A newly released report warns about the perils of temporarily surpassing the critical 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit. A…
Elon Musk has laid out another far-reaching vision for SpaceX, saying the company could return humans to the Moon within the next few years and eventually move thousands of people beyond Earth. Speaking during an interview with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Musk described plans that would go far beyond short astronaut missions, including permanent settlements…
NSE’s benchmark to define real estate sector performance The Nifty Realty Index is a sectoral stock market index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) that is benchmark of the performance of country’s listed real estate companies. It is designed to reflect the movement of companies primarily engaged in the construction and development of residential and…
Maharashtra has introduced major reforms to undergraduate medical and dental admissions by discontinuing institutional rounds in private colleges and shifting all admissions to the centralised CAP counselling process. The state has also imposed a two-year admission ban on candidates who fail to join seats allotted in the final round, aiming to curb seat blocking and…
National Film Awards 2026 major winners: Yami Gautam wins Best Actress for Article 370; Kartik Aaryan and Mammootty share Best Actor honour The winners of the 72nd National Film Awards were announced by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in New Delhi on Saturday, honouring the finest achievements in Indian cinema across feature films, non-feature…
Pakistan’s Babar Azam (Photo by AP) Pakistan captain Babar Azam has revealed that Shan Masood fractured his finger during the first Test against the West Indies in Trinidad, an injury that affected the team’s batting plans in their 90-run defeat.Masood picked up the injury while batting in the first innings and was forced to bat…
India’s growth momentum holds as finance ministry sees 7.3% Q2 expansion (representative image) India’s economy is estimated to have grown 7.3% in the September quarter of the current financial year, slowing from the 7.8% expansion recorded in the April-June period, according to the finance ministry’s latest Monthly Economic Review released on Thursday.The ministry said the…
OMCs may be losing Rs 5/L on petrol, Rs 23 on diesel: ICRA NEW DELHI: A surge in global crude prices due to renewed hostilities has started hitting the oil marketing companies, with state-owned fuel retailers estimated to be losing around Rs 5 per litre on petrol and Rs 23 on diesel, ratings agency ICRA…
When Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft left Pluto behind, its journey was far from over. The probe had already travelled farther than any spacecraft sent specifically to explore Pluto, but it continued into the dark outer reaches of the solar system. On 1 January 2019, New Horizons passed a small object in the Kuiper Belt that…
