New Delhi: In a major change in policy, govt has increased the time allowed for construction of 6-10 km-long bridges across rivers such as Ganga and Brahmaputra to six years and for 2.5-6 km-long bridges on Mahanadi and Godavari to five years. The timelines have been revised from the current 24-30 months.Similarly, the construction period…
Kolkata Knight Riders have had a difficult start to IPL 2026, losing their first two matches, and their problems continued against Punjab Kings at Eden Gardens on Monday.Green had another short stay at the crease. He faced two balls in the match on April 6, scoring a boundary off Xavier Bartlett before edging the next…
Mohammed Shami (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) Sunrisers Hyderabad traded Mohammed Shami to Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 10 crore before this season. On Sunday, he repaid them back with interest, ripping out Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma in the Powerplay with a masterclass in skill and deception.Shami began over the wicket to Head, a line that…
Varun Chakravarthy’s rise to becoming one of India’s most enigmatic spinners isn’t your typical “overnight success” story. If anything, it’s a masterclass in being incredibly stubborn. Most people would take three or four major rejections as a sign to pack it in, but Varun sat through forty of them. His journey is less about a…
Plush toys travelling into space may sound unusual, yet they have quietly remained part of human spaceflight for decades. Missions conducted by organisations like NASA and companies such as SpaceX often include small soft mascots inside spacecraft cabins. These objects are known as zero gravity indicators. They begin to float once a spacecraft leaves Earth’s…
This week in “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” amid an escalation of the Iranian war, a new CBS News poll shows the conflict and rising gas prices are fueling economic concerns in the U.S. Plus, U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte join. Source link
NEW DELHI: The Centre has, for the first time, come out with dedicated rules to manage tar balls – weathered product of oil spills due to offshore oil exploration activities, oil tanker/ ship/ vessel accidents or pipeline leakages that cause marine pollution – and proposed mandatory provisions for owner of oil facilities for its collection,…
The perpetuals exchange will use World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin as the sole settlement asset for its commodity markets, starting with gold, silver, and crude oil. Every perpetual contract tracking real-world assets (RWA) on Aster will settle exclusively in USD1, World Liberty Financial’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, according to posts from both projects on X. The first markets…
Actress Subashini, who gained prominence through her performance in the popular Tamil serial Kayal. The shocking news of her death in Chennai came on April 6, 2026. Her sudden death has taken a toll not only on her fans but also on those with whom she worked, given the bright prospects that awaited her since…
New Delhi: Police have arrested two key operatives of a Pakistan-ISI-backed transnational arms trafficking and terror module. The accused, Imran, 37, and Mohammad Kamran, 27, are alleged firearms suppliers from Uttar Pradesh. Imran is the brother-in-law of alleged kingpin Shahbaz Ansari, while Kamran is his cousin. A car, a pistol, a revolver and 11 cartridges…