Farooq doubts terror threat to Kashmiri Pandits, seeks probe

Raising doubts about the actual threat, he urged Union home ministry to identify the “culprits” who issued the threats through social media. SRINAGAR: National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah Thursday sought a thorough investigation into a purported threat letter to Kashmiri Pandit employees in Kashmir from terror outfit United Liberation Council, reported to be a Lashkar-e-Taiba…

Read More

Who were they? Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina’s secret wedding had just five people present with zero outside guests

Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina’s secret wedding had just five guests after couple kept ceremony completely private Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez chose to keep their wedding almost entirely away from the public eye, and the first details emerging from the ceremony suggest they succeeded. After nearly a decade together, the couple reportedly married in a…

Read More

In 1854, William Thomson used a tiny mirror on a suspended magnet to help solve the problem of sending telegraph signals across the Atlantic

In the middle of the 19th century, sending a message across the Atlantic was still a distant ambition. Telegraph lines had already begun shrinking distances on land, but an ocean presented a different problem. A signal travelling through thousands of miles of cable could arrive so weak that ordinary instruments struggled to detect it. William…

Read More

Stock Market Today Highlights: BSE Sensex closes 113 points up, NSE Nifty50 ends flat at 24,395

Indian equities ended lower in the previous session, with Sensex falling 187.90 points, or 0.24%, to 77,966.35 and Nifty declining 35.75 points, or 0.15%, to 24,435.95. The decline marked the second consecutive session of losses for the Sensex. The market saw sharper selling during the session, with the 30-share index falling as much as 656…

Read More

North American bison fell from millions to hundreds, but ancient DNA shows they kept much of their genetic diversity as isolated herds became different

Scientists have pieced together the deepest genetic history of the North American bison ever assembled, using DNA drawn from 115 animals that lived before the species was pushed to near extinction in the 20th century. As per the findings, led by researchers at the University of California, and featured on the cover of the 6…

Read More