Centre steps up anti-stubble burning drive ahead of peak crop residue season (representative image) NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday asked Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi-NCR authorities to work in “mission mode” to prevent stubble burning ahead of the peak crop residue burning season, flagging a sharp rise in farm fires in Madhya…
Energy is sapping Trump ahead of midterm polls The TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump insists Russia and China are not doing much to help Iran in its war with America and Israel. “If they are, it’s at a very low level, but I don’t believe they are at all,” the MAGA supremo…
File photo: UK’s RAF Fairford base Iran is seeking to expand its attacks in Britain to include military installations, with the suspected plot against the US-run RAF Fairford air base in September being “not unique”, MI5 chief Ken McCallum said on Tuesday.Speaking in his annual assessment of threats to the UK, the head of Britain’s…
NEW DELHI: Union minister of state for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan has sought to step down from the Union Council of Ministers and relinquish his Rajya Sabha membership, saying he wants to return to grassroots politics.Murugan said he intends to devote himself full-time to strengthening the BJP in Tamil Nadu and preparing the party…
Germany’s Nuremberg Airport suspends flights as police investigate suspected air emergency (representative image) Germany’s Nuremberg Airport temporarily suspended flight operations on Tuesday after police received a report of a suspected aviation emergency shortly before a flight from the Greek island of Corfu was due to land.The aircraft landed safely, but operations remained suspended as police…
Cowell had previously spoken against the dog meat industry (AP photo) British television personality and music producer Simon Cowell donated £25,000 to help an animal welfare charity close a dog meat farm in South Korea. The donation which happened in the year 2018, supported a rescue operation by Humane Society International (HSI), which was working…
Hackers remotely defrost supermarket refrigerators across France, putting fresh and frozen food stocks at risk and triggering a probe into reported damage and fires ( A cyberattack targeting refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarket outlets has forced stores to discard fresh and frozen food, prompting a police investigation into the incident and reported outbreaks…
The identification tags were found among old military records at Beverly Veterans’ Services (Credit: CBS) A 104-year-old woman in Massachusetts has received her brother’s military identification tags 83 years after he died in a plane crash during World War II. Dorothy Stewart, who was 21 when her brother Bernard Parnell died in 1943, was reunited…
Iris ShenPhoto: Society for Science Iris Shen, a 17-year-old student from The Woodlands, Texas, has earned third place and a $150,000 award in the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent Search for an unusually creative approach to blood-cancer research. Instead of relying only on conventional laboratory models, Shen tested a potential cancer drug in clams to determine…
CJI asks petitioners to fix defects NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Tuesday asked petitioners in cases related to protests against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Delhi to ensure that defects in their pleas are rectified.He assured them that the petitions would be listed for hearing.The direction came…
