For those planning a road trip to the Himalayas or a weekend getaway in Uttar Pradesh, or a wildlife safari in Madhya Pradesh, it may be time to check the weather update before packing your bags. In a recent update, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued heavy rainfall alerts across many northern and central…
Nikola Tesla (Image: Wikipedia) Anger has a strange way of taking up more room in your head than almost anything else. It can replay the same old argument for days, sometimes years, long after everyone else involved has moved on and forgotten about it. Nikola Tesla, the man whose work helped bring electricity into homes…
BENGALURU: Parents can soon remotely monitor their kids at daycare centres. The alleged abuse of toddlers at a daycare centre operating inside Capgemini’s Brookefield campus has prompted the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) to make CCTV cameras with live streaming access for parents mandatory at all daycare centres in Bengaluru.KSCPCR chief…
Palash Sen’s basement studio at Greater Kailash II is an eclectic place. Deep Purple and Tagore are framed on the wall. Eric Clapton, Jane Austen and Wisden jostle in a small bookshelf while a synthesiser masquerades as a piano nearby. In these creative surroundings, the gym equipment looks sheepishly out of tune.The studio is called…
Eugenie Bouchard (Image via Getty Images) Former Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard has shared her surprise at the hot weather in London ahead of the Wimbledon Championships 2026. The Canadian tennis star, who has joined the BBC’s team for this year’s tournament, admitted that she found the heat more difficult to handle than expected.Bouchard, who now…
Bobby Deol opened up about his family’s difficult financial struggles on Ranveer Allahbadia’s podcast, saying Dharmendra felt the most pain. He credited ‘Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani’ as the turning point, and also praised Sunny Deol’s incredible discipline and strong work ethic. The year 2023 turned out to be a landmark year for the…
BIJNOR: Fed up of their 32-year-old son’s drug addiction, his parents and younger brother allegedly hired a contract killer for Rs 5 lakh to get him murdered. To arrange advance payment for the murder, the mother also sold her jewellery for Rs 55,000.According to police, Dushyant Kumar of Amroha’s Nasirpur village was found dead in…
Anthony Fauci (L) and Tulsi Gabbard (R) Former US President Joe Biden’s top medical adviser Anthony Fauci funded a laboratory in China’s Wuhan and influenced intelligence assessments on the origins of Covid-19 while misleading Congress under oath, according to a claim made by outgoing director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.The allegation surfaced when Gabbard accused…
In 1847 a Vienna doctor cut childbed-fever deaths on the doctors’ ward from about one mother in ten to roughly one in eighty by making physicians wash their hands in chlorine — and the profession turned on him for it In 1847, a Hungarian obstetrician working at Vienna General Hospital found a way to stop…
When Queen Victoria died at Osborne House on 22 January 1901, the court expected a ceremonial end to a very public reign. What they got instead was a final act that felt startlingly private. Victoria had left detailed instructions for her burial, and among the most surprising were personal keepsakes linked to John Brown, the…