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    As Cyclone Arnab approaches, a look at the science behind naming of cyclones

    Cyclone names are selected through regional arrangements involving national meteorological services.
    India News
    Published 3 hours ago

    The ‘Good Maharaja’: An Indian king who gave 650 Polish children a home during WWII

    This image was takenin 1943, by the King's cameraman during Christmas that year in Jamnagar.
    India News
    Updated 4 days ago

    'The Hanging Tree' from The Hunger Games played amid tear gas at France concert

    The Hunger Games' three-finger salute: People hold candles as they take part in an anti-coup night protest at Hledan junction in Yangon, Myanmar, March 14, 2021.
    World News
    Updated 5 days ago

    Neil Armstrong's boyhood home: The model planes, homemade wind tunnel and plans for tours

    The former house of Neil Armstrong stands Friday, July 31, 2026, in Wapakoneta, Ohio. (AP Photo/Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos)
    World News
    Published 7 days ago

    Inside Kim Jong Un's lavish world: mega yachts, armoured trains and designer luxury

    Kim Jong Un oversees the missile test on TV, accompanied by his daughter, Ju Ae,
    World News
    Published 8 days ago

    London Beer Flood: How a brewery disaster killed 8 people 200 years ago

    The disaster unfolded at Meux & Co's Horse Shoe Brewery, near the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street, in central London.
    World News
    Updated 9 days ago

    Ex-IAS officer Divya Mittal launches party: How 5 other bureaucrats fared in politics

    Like Divya Mittal, Five others — Arvind Kejriwal, Sasikanth Senthil, Kannan Gopinathan, K Annamalai and Shah Faesal have made similar exits.
    India News
    Updated 10 days ago

    World's oldest shipwreck, as ancient as Great Pyramid, found near Turkey

    Dated between 4,400 and 4,700 years old, the Kekova Island ship wreckage has been placed in the Early Bronze Age.
    World News
    Published 12 days ago

    When Bertrand Russell's article reminded Tagore of Upanishad verse | A century old letter

    Tagore told Russell in the letter that he read his article on the ‘Essence of the Religion’ in a Hibbert Journal “with great interest”
    India News
    Updated 13 days ago

    Did Nikita Khrushchev bang his shoe at the UN? The Cold War mystery of 1960

    Nikita Khrushchev, then First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
    World News
    Updated 14 days ago

    Did plague ever fully go away? It killed millions, but never disappeared

    A satellite image shows the Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far East in Irkutsk, Russia, May 8, 2025.
    World News
    Updated 18 days ago

    Three years of Oct 7 Hamas attack. Was Israel alerted by a country days before?

    Visitors at the Nova music festival memorial site on the third anniversary of the Hamas attack near Kibbutz Reim, southern Israel, on Wednesday, Oct. 7.
    World News
    Published 19 days ago

    Beyond the shadow of doubt: A valley on US' warning list welcomes tourism against the odds

    Now, residents are fighting back by opening their homes to tourism.
    World News
    Updated 20 days ago

    October 4 marks historic F1 day: Remembering Jochen Rindt, only posthumous champion

    Born in Mainz, Germany, on April 18, 1942, Jochen Rindt lost both parents in a bombing raid as an infant.
    World News
    Published 22 days ago

    Two spaces, one legacy: Inside Mahatma Gandhi’s birthplace and Kirti Mandir memorial

    The Kirti Mandir Memorial was planned around Gandhi's belief in "Sarva Dharma Sambhav" (equal respect for all religions).
    India News
    Published 24 days ago

    Meet ‘Shah Rukh Khan of television ’, who had no work for 2 years after flop Bollywood career

    This actor was labelled "Shah Rukh Khan of television".
    Entertainment
    Published 25 days ago

    Amid flydubai crash scare, a look at 4 other times things went wrong inside a cockpit

    A flydubai Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft prepares for landing at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in Lod on September 30, 2026.
    India News
    Updated 25 days ago

    How a 700-pound ball became a global New Year's icon in New York

    The Constellation Ball rises above One Times Square during preparations for the New Year’s Eve celebration
    World News
    Published 26 days ago

    Why does your keyboard start with QWERTY, not ABCD?

    The QWERTY arrangement on a modern keyboard traces its origins to 19th-century typewriters
    World News
    Updated 27 days ago

    In 2016, India crossed LoC to destroy terror launch pads in Pak: What happened

    The surgical strike was carried out under the leadership of PM Modi, defence minister Manohar Parrikar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval.
    India News
    Updated 27 days ago

    US man sold firm for $1.7 billion What he did next left 540 employees shocked

    Graham Walker, who was the CEO of a Louisiana-based family business.
    World News
    Updated 27 days ago

    Why does a day have 24 hours and an hour 60 minutes?

    The familiar divisions of hours, minutes and seconds trace their origins to ancient systems of astronomy and timekeeping
    Science
    Published 27 days ago

    Meet 90s' star who took on Rajinikanth, then left films to run ₹3300 cr company

    90s heartthrob who debuted with Rajinikanth and Mammootty.
    Entertainment
    Updated 28 days ago

    When India's first chief poll commissioner deleted lakhs of women from voter rolls

    India's first Chief Election Commissioner, Sukumar Sen, insisted that women be registered in their own names.
    India News
    Updated 28 days ago

    15 fish from a 1960 gift turned into 25 million invasive fish across Japan

    A study revealed that Japan's bluegill fish descend from just 15 individuals brought over in 1960.
    World News
    Updated 28 days ago

    An Army radar test hit the Moon in 1946, and it changed space history

    Project Diana, initiated in 1946, marked the first successful radar signal bounce from the Moon, proving that radio waves could travel through the ionosphere.
    Science
    Updated 28 days ago

    A star at 6, this actor worked with Salman, Sunny Deol, owns ₹4 crore home at 18

    Actor worked with Salman Khan and Sunny Deol at the age of 9.
    Entertainment
    Published 31 days ago

    Bioscope2: A nostalgic journey through Bollywood's golden era posters in Lucknow

    IRS officer and film archivist Suboor Usmani during the Bioscope exhibition and (right) director-film historian Karan Bali and chief guest actor-theatre personality Atul Tiwari in Lucknow
    Cities
    Updated 32 days ago

    Real estate trivia: A 1BHK in Mumbai’s Borivali cost ₹25,000 five decades ago

    Mumbai real estate update: Did you know that a Borivali apartment that commands nearly <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>56,000 per sq ft today cost just <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>25,000 for the entire 453-sq-ft unit nearly five decades ago?(Picture for representational purposes only)
    Real Estate
    Updated 31 days ago

    Before Delhi CM, Rekha Gupta was a DUSU President on a scooter

    In the mid-1990s, Gupta was a student leader at the university and went on to serve as president of the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) in 1996-97.
    India News
    Published 34 days ago
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