The surprising way scientists are finding Roman ruins beneath the sea. Image credit – Wikimedia A Roman city can disappear from common eyes yet not be wiped out entirely. Roads and other structural features can leave behind faint signals underneath the water, which have been present there for centuries, sculpted by sedimentation, tide levels, and…
NEET UG answer key 2026: The National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to release the results for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2026. The answer keys were released on May 6 on the official NEET portal. The examination was conducted on May 3, 2026, across centres in India and abroad. Candidates…
NEW DELHI: There have been several broadcasting blunders over the years, but the one during the first Test between Pakistan and Bangladesh will surely stand out. During the opening Test in Dhaka, broadcasters mistakenly displayed India’s scorecard instead of Pakistan’s Playing XI.The error occurred after Pakistan won the toss and opted to field at the…
When Ben Silbermann turned a simple insight of people loving organising inspiration into something inspirational. Image credit – Wikimedia While other social media networks were created to facilitate rapid sharing and instantaneous responses, this visual discovery engine was built quite differently. In 2010, the biggest social bookmarking platform’s co-founder Ben Silbermann, realised that people tend…
This week begins on a steady, almost ordinary note, and that’s not a bad thing. Early in the week, your income and routine expenses sit in a decent balance, so your mind feels lighter while you handle daily chores, office calls, and those small household tasks that usually get postponed. A long journey that you…
More than a decade after the launch of the Centre’s flagship Jan Suraksha programmes, claims amounting to nearly Rs 25,160 crore have been paid out under two major insurance schemes, with enrolments include several crores across life cover, accident insurance and pension initiatives. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, marking 11 years of the Jan Suraksha schemes…
A well-placed shrub holds the yard together through every season. Image Credits: Google Gemini For most American homeowners with a small front yard, there are two extremes they are caught between: either they let it go scraggly, or they stuff it with plants that promptly swallow the whole thing. Neither works, but there is a…
Greenland’s ice sheet holds layered climate records stretching back thousands of years. Image Credits: Google Gemini Most people are familiar with one version of the Greenland story: ice melting, seas rising, glaciers receding in time-lapse videos that make climate change seem real and immediate. That version is real, but it’s also incomplete, because underneath all…
Authorities in Mexico have announced plans to end the school year more than a month early as the country prepares to host matches for the FIFA World Cup 2026. The move has triggered criticism from parents, policy groups and business organisations.Education Secretary Mario Delgado said the academic session would end on June 5, around 40…
The Centre has completed the implementation of the four new labour codes by notifying the corresponding rules, more than five years after the reforms were first introduced to replace and consolidate 29 existing labour laws, PTI reported.The four codes — the Code on Wages, 2019; Industrial Relations Code, 2020; Code on Social Security, 2020; and…