Navneet Kaur (File photo) The Indian women’s hockey team came from two goals down to defeat the USA 3-2 in its opening Pool A match of the FIH Nations Cup in Auckland on Monday.Deepika scored twice for India, while Navneet Kaur added the third goal. Ashley Sessa and Madeleine Zimmer scored for the USA. The…
The chemist licked his fingers after dinner, and uncovered the first artificial sweetener. Image credit – Wikimedia The odd flavor detected while eating dinner sparked one of the greatest innovations in the modern food industry. In 1879, Constantin Fahlberg, a chemist, was experimenting in Ira Remsen’s chemistry laboratory in Johns Hopkins University. He noted that…
Ashwini Bhide said strong winds over the past two days has caused extensive damage to the city’s green cover Mumbai: It would be a “sweeping statement” to attribute tree-fall incidents solely to concretisation, BMC commissioner Ashwini Bhide said on Tuesday even as she announced that the civic body would engage expert institutions and arborists to…
Varanasi: A minor boy from Sonbhadra district died after he and his four friends were beaten with sticks and rods by guards of a private security company, at Namo Ghat, around 3 am on Sunday. Police arrested four security guards in this connection.ACP (Kotwali) Vijay Pratap Singh said that around 3 am, five boys who…
Panaji: Data released by the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Tuesday shows a trend of more students scoring higher marks at the Class X public exams. The figures indicate that at the 2026 Class X exams, as many as 276 students scored over 90%.Another 1,848 children had scores between 80% to…
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Tuesday appealed to farmers to extend litigation-free cooperation and become partners in the development of Bharat Future City, urging them “not to miss the opportunity to receive good compensation offered by the govt and purchase land elsewhere.“Addressing farmers, local elected representatives, among others, after laying the foundation stone…
New Delhi: In good news for patients, Indian Patent Office has refused a patent on MNC firm AbbVie’s blockbuster immunology therapy Rinvoq, paving the way for affordable versions to enter the domestic market. In a recent hearing, the Delhi Patent Office held that the claimed invention was “obvious” and lacked inventive step, a violation of…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AP Photo) India made two changes for the fifth and final T20I against England at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, with teenage opener Vaibhav Sooryavanshi left out of the playing XI.Sanju Samson replaced Sooryavanshi, while all-rounder Suryansh Shedge came in for Washington Sundar as India looked to end the series on a positive…
Kolkata: The Union home ministry has extended the tenure of Bengal DGP Siddh Nath Gupta by six months, just two days before the second phase of Assembly elections. Gupta, who was scheduled to retire on April 30, will now continue in office for an additional six months.Gupta is the first DGP in the state in…
Venezuela’s oil is flowing across the world again, and at its fastest pace in more than seven years. In April, the country’s crude exports jumped 14% to 1.23 million barrels per day, powered by stronger demand from the United States, India and Europe, according to shipping data and internal documents from state-run PDVSA.The sharp rise…
