Marie Curie and her husband spent nearly four years boiling down seven tonnes of pitchblende in a leaky Paris shed with no ventilation to isolate one-tenth of a gram of radium chloride. Today, the notebooks they kept during those years, between 1899 and 1902, are kept in lead-lined boxes at the Bibliothèque nationale de France….
Employee says helping senior during manager’s leave hurt appraisal, sparks workplace hierarchy debate A software professional’s Reddit post has sparked a discussion around workplace hierarchy, reporting structures and performance reviews after he claimed that helping a senior executive during his manager’s absence affected his appraisal rating.The employee, who identified himself as a software engineer with…
Rasika Dugal is excited about ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’, calling the series-to-film shift a first for Indian entertainment. She hopes loyal OTT fans embrace theatres. Unlike the series’ hectic pace, the film’s shoot was less exhausting, though the same team returned. ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’ releases in theatres on September 4. Rasika Dugal is thrilled to step…
Sawan Putrada Ekadashi in 2026 will be celebrated on Sunday, the 23rd of August. This holy fast is observed in the Shukla Paksha of the month of Sawan. It is considered to be of great importance for the welfare of the family, prosperity of children and peace of the household, and is devoted to Lord…
Kharge attacks Centre over Wangchuk row NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday launched a sharp attack on the Centre over the removal of activist Sonam Wangchuk from the Jantar Mantar protest site, alleging that the government was suppressing every voice of dissent.In a post on X, Kharge claimed the government had consistently targeted…
India’s banknotes may soon get a plastic makeover.The country is moving ahead with its plans to explore polymer banknotes as the Reserve Bank of India‘s currency printing subsidiary has invited global and domestic manufacturers to bid for the specialised material needed to print such notes. Initially, the notes are likely to be in the lower…
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar paid tribute to Sir Garfield Sobers after the West Indies great passed away on Friday, calling him the greatest cricketer to have ever played the game and the player every child dreams of becoming.Widely regarded as cricket’s greatest all-rounder, Sobers died at his home in Barbados, 11 days before his…
Delhi student Panshul Bansal secures AIR 2 with 715 out of 720 NEW DELHI: Panshul Bansal has secured All India Rank (AIR) 2 in the NEET UG 2026 examination, scoring 715 out of 720 marks to emerge among the country’s top performers in the undergraduate medical entrance test.• NEET UG 2026 cutoff rises sharply, students…
Sonam Wangchuk’s team thanked Sonakshi Sinha and Omi Vaidya for backing his 20-day hunger strike, held to demand Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation. Imran Khan and other celebrities, including Zeenat Aman and Naseeruddin Shah, also voiced support. The CJP protest at Jantar Mantar enters its 28th day, ahead of the July 20 Parliament march. Sonakshi…
In spiritual, psychological and traditional contexts, dream interpretations are fascinating. When many people see death in their dreams, they get nervous. They can wake up feeling anxious, they think something bad is going to happen. But in many dream traditions, the sighting of dead people in dreams is not always a bad sign. Sometimes, uncompleted…
