PC: Open Access Government On a warm day, a wall is usually something to escape from rather than something that helps cool a room. At Graz University of Technology in Austria, that assumption is being turned around with a ceramic structure that uses little more than water, porous clay and evaporation. The experimental cooling cubes…
President Droupadi Murmu has approved the 2026 amendment extending statutory protection under the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act to Vande Mataram. The law now penalises deliberate disruption of the national song’s singing. The story explains the amended provisions, the Home Ministry’s protocols, the song’s historical significance and what students should know about the…
The Delhi High Court has stepped in to protect Janhvi Kapoor from obscene and pornographic material circulating online, while at the same time drawing a line around what can and cannot be removed in the name of personality rights.Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani, hearing Kapoor’s plea on Tuesday, passed an interim order directing the removal of…
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Aviation minister reacts after turbulence-hit Air India flight pilot fails 2nd dope test(PTI image on left) NEW DELHI: Union civil aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Tuesday said the ministry is taking the matter seriously and has sought an update from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on the existing regulations, after the…
Corporate earnings have consistently surpassed market forecasts, a trend welcomed by investors. US stock market today: Wall Street benchmarks traded close to record levels on Tuesday as investors awaited fresh inflation data, while oil prices remained volatile amid continued uncertainty over when the conflict with Iran would allow crude exports to resume freely.The S&P 500…
West Indies Cricket Team (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: For a team with two ODI World Cup titles, West Indies have found themselves in an unfamiliar position again. The Caribbean side will not qualify automatically for the 2027 World Cup and must now negotiate the qualifying route to make the tournament in South Africa, Zimbabwe and…
A mosquito does not need to die for its role in malaria transmission to be interrupted. That idea sits at the centre of a 2025 study led by researchers associated with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who tested a different way of using bed nets: instead of relying entirely on insecticides to kill…
AFCAT 2 answer key 2026 released AFCAT 2 answer key 2026: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has released the provisional answer key for the Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT) 2 2026. Candidates who appeared for the examination can now check their responses against the official key through the AFCAT recruitment portal, afcat.edcil.co.in. The response…
Shraddha Kapoor’s highly anticipated biopic Eetha has undergone a major schedule change. The makers have officially pushed the film’s theatrical release from August 28 to December 4. The decision ends what would have been a high-stakes box-office face-off with Yash’s Toxic: A Fairytale For Grown-Ups and places the film in a new competitive window later…
