England’s Ben Stokes (AP Photo) England’s preparations for the second Test against New Zealand have been overshadowed by a fresh off-field controversy involving captain Ben Stokes and fast bowler Gus Atkinson. The pair are reported to have broken the team curfew after England’s 115-run victory in the opening Test at Lord’s and later become involved…
BYD India has just introduced its DM-i (Dual Mode Intelligent) technology in India, bringing its globally established plug-in hybrid system to the market. Designed as an electric-first hybrid powertrain, the technology combines a petrol engine, electric motor and battery pack, while offering a claimed combined driving range of more than 1,200km.How does this work?Unlike conventional…
Roughly four kilometres below the surface of the central Pacific Ocean, scattered across a stretch of seafloor the size of the continental United States, lie hundreds of billions of apple-sized rocks. They are dark, lumpy, and almost impossibly slow-growing, a few millimetres every million years. Some of the ones sitting on the seabed today began…
Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev’s resignation from the TMC deals a significant blow to the party’s national ambitions, particularly in the northeast NEW DELHI: The resignation of Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has dealt another major blow to the party at a time when it is grappling with an unprecedented…
Accused nabbed by the police HYDERABAD: A real estate businessman shot and killed his second wife at his house in Malkajgiri in the early hours of Wednesday. The accused was arrested three months earlier in possession of an illegal firearm while he was preparing to murder the victim.The accused, D Arun Kumar, 48, a real…
AI-generated representational image. UNNAO: An elderly priest was allegedly stabbed to death by unidentified assailants at an under-construction temple in Uttar Pradesh‘s Unnao district on Tuesday, triggering tension in the area and a brief protest by local residents, police said.The deceased, identified as Milan Das (60), was a resident of the Ghure Tola locality in…
File photo used for representational purpose. JAIPUR: Several parts of Rajasthan were reeling under intense heat, with Sri Ganganagar recording a maximum temperature of 46.4 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, the weather department said.According to the meteorological department, heatwave conditions are likely to prevail in parts of the state in the coming days.Sri Ganganagar was the…
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Raising concerns over recurring electrical accidents, fires and electrocutions across the country, former power sector regulator D Radhakrishna has urged the Centre to introduce sweeping electrical safety reforms, arguing that stronger oversight is essential to protect consumers and prevent avoidable tragedies.In a letter dated June 9 to NITI Aayog member Prof Abhay Karandikar,…
Every summer, millions of people head towards America’s beaches expecting sunshine, surf, and warm coastal waters. Yet beneath those same waves lives one of the ocean’s most misunderstood predators. Shark attacks remain exceptionally rare, but they are not evenly distributed. Some areas of coastlines in the United States have more incidents of shark attacks than…
Missing a single document can lead to reporting errors, which in turn can result in income tax notices or even delayed refunds. (AI image) ITR filing AY 2026-27: Before you open the tax filing portal to file your income tax return, it’s important to keep all the necessary documents handy. Having all the requisite documents…
