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FIRST TANKERS CROSS STRAIT AFTER IRAN DEAL; ISRAELI STRIKES STIR DOUBT IN LEBANON

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM/LONDON: Three Saudi-flagged supertankers carrying 6 million barrels of crude sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, hours after US President Donald Trump signed a deal with Iran to end the war that has disrupted global energy...

Modi pitches for global trade framework at G7

EVIAN-LES-BAINS (FRANCE): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday pitched for setting up a global framework to boost cooperation on connectivity and trade by combining the strengths of the G7 nations, India and the Global South countries. The prime...

SCIENTISTS URGE COUNTRIES TO LOOK BEYOND CARBON DIOXIDE TO TACKLE WARMING

Indirect greenhouse gases are equally responsible for global warming. They are generated by combustion of fossil fuels or they waft skyward from industrial chemicals. These gases don’t themselves trap heat — but once airborne, they join chemical...

IRAN, U.S. AGREE TO HALT WAR AND REOPEN HORMUZ, SENDING OIL PRICES TUMBLING

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: The US and Iran said they had agreed terms to end their war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, news that brought relief to markets although the pact may hinge on an end to hostilities in Lebanon and defers talks on Tehran’s nuclear...

IRAN SAYS ‘NO POINT’ IN U.S. TALKS AFTER BEIRUT STRIKE, CASTING DOUBT ON DEAL

TEHRAN: Iran said on Sunday there was “no point” in peace talks with the United States, accusing it of failing to uphold its commitments and casting doubt on a deal that Donald Trump had insisted would be signed imminently. The latest hurdle came...

US strike on tanker off Oman coast kills 3 Indians; govt takes up the issue with US

NEW DELHI: Three Indian seafarers reported missing after a US attack on a tanker off the coast of Oman have died, shipping minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Thursday, as reports came in of another US strike on a merchant vessel with Indian crew...

IRAN, ISRAEL ANNOUNCE PAUSE IN STRIKES ON EACH OTHER FOR NOW

DUBAI/JERUSALEM: Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other following an appeal from US President Donald Trump that they immediately “stop ‘shooting’”, though Tehran said it would resume strikes if Israel continued to hit...

ZVEREV ENDS WAIT FOR GRAND SLAM TITLE WITH FRENCH OPEN TRIUMPH

Alexander Zverev beat Flavio Cobolli 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-1 in a thriller on Sunday to win the French Open title

S-W monsoon reaches subcontinent 3 days later than usual; set to cover more states

MUMBAI: Monsoon made onset over Kerala on Thursday, three days after its normal onset date and five days after IMD’s forecast date. Monsoon normally arrives over Kerala around June 1. IMD had forecast on May 15 that this year, the south-west monsoon...

21, including 11 foreigners, dead in South Delhi fire

NEW DELHI: A devastating blaze tore through a hotel operating without a fire NOC in a congested bylane in south Delhi’s Malviya Nagar area on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people, including 11 foreigners whose relatives were being treated in hospitals...

IRAN STUDYING DEAL TO HALT WAR AS STALEMATE PERSISTS, PUSHES FOR LIMITED INTERIM PACT

DUBAI: Iran is reviewing a proposed agreement with the US to halt their war, Iranian media reported on Tuesday, after US President Donald Trump said talks to reach a deal were continuing. More than three months after the US and Israel launched strikes...

U.S. BOMBS IRANIAN MILITARY SITES; TEHRAN TARGETS AMERICAN TROOPS IN KUWAIT

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: The United States said on Monday that it bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend. Iran then said it targeted American soldiers in Kuwait with missiles, which the US...

Saket building collapse: Death toll rises to 6, FIR registered

NEW DELHI: The death toll in the collapse of a commercial building near Saket Metro station in south Delhi rose to six on Sunday, while several others were rescued from the debris and admitted to hospitals, officials said. Police sources said that...

Rain brings relief from heat; alert issued for thunderstorms

NEW DELHI: After days of sweltering heatwave conditions, Delhiites got a respite on Thursday as heavy rain, thunderstorms and gusty winds swept parts of the national capital, with the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a red alert for the...

NASA UNVEILS 3-PHASE PLAN FOR PERMANENT MOON BASE; 3 MISSIONS THIS YEAR

WASHINGTON: After a successful lunar flyaround, Nasa has announced three missions to the Moon as part of efforts to establish a permanent base on the earth’s natural satellite. At a press conference here, Nasa Administrator Jared Isaacman on Tuesday...

Eye on China: Quad steps up surveillance in Indo-Pacific, cooperation in minerals, energy

NEW DELHI: The Quad grouping on Tuesday expanded cooperation in critical minerals and energy while unveiling new measures to boost maritime surveillance and port infrastructure across the Indo-Pacific against the backdrop of China’s growing military...

IRAN, U.S. PLAY DOWN HOPES OF IMMINENT BREAKTHROUGH IN WAR

NEW DELHI/DUBAI: Iran and the United States played down hopes for an imminent breakthrough in efforts to end their three-month-old war on Monday, with the top US diplomat saying Washington will either get a good agreement or deal with the country in...

IRAN DEAL IS ‘LARGELY NEGOTIATED’, WOULD REOPEN STRAIT OF HORMUZ: TRUMP

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Washington and Iran have “largely negotiated” a memorandum of understanding on a peace deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump said, as expectations rose that a breakthrough might be imminent in the...

274 CLIMBERS SCALE MT EVEREST IN ONE DAY!

A record number of 274 climbers, including three Indians, scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday. It is the highest number ever to reach the world’s tallest peak on the same day from the Nepal side, a hiking official said.

ARSENAL WIN PREMIER LEAGUE AFTER 22 YRS

LONDON: Arsenal’s decades-long wait is over. Mikel Arteta’s team was crowned Premier League champion for the first time since 2004 on Tuesday after Manchester City drew 1-1 with Bournemouth. “I told you all.. it’s done,” Arsenal midfielder Declan...

DAILY MOVEMENT KEY TO BETTER MOOD: DATA

NEW DELHI: An international study that analysed data from 67 research groups worldwide, involving over three lakh real-time mood reports, on how physical activity is related to good mood and positive emotions has found that for most people, mood...

Dry and hot conditions to persist across north-west, central India over next week

NEW DELHI: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a heatwave warning for several parts of the north-west and central India, forecasting temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius (°C), with dry and hot conditions over the next...

REMAINS OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA’S LARGEST DINOSAUR UNEARTHED IN THAILAND

Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a planteating behemoth almost 90 feet long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due to its sheer size. This was Nagatitan...

‘Lebanon to press Israel to cease fire at talks in Washington’

BEIRUT: Lebanon will demand Israel cease fire at face-to-face talks in Washington on Thursday, a senior Lebanese official said, as Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel continued to trade blows despite a US-backed truce declared last month. The talks...

Pass percentage falls 3.19 pts; lowest since Covid era; views vary on reasons behind it

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday declared the Class 12 board examination results for 2026, with the overall pass percentage falling to 85.20%, down 3.19 percentage points from 88.39% last year, despite nearly...

Paper leak allegations: NTA says dates for retest will be announced in 7-10 days

NEW DELHI: The NEET (UG) 2026 examination held on May 3 was cancelled on Tuesday amid allegations of paper leak with the CBI registering an FIR after the government asked it to carry out a comprehensive inquiry into the “irregularities”. The National...

Pokhran nuke tests reflected India’s scientific excellence: PM on National Technology Day

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday greeted people on the National Technology Day – which commemorates the momentous events of May 11, 1998, when India conducted successful nuclear tests at Rajasthan’s Pokhran – and said technology has...

DEEPIKA LEADS RECURVE TEAM TO HISTORIC GOLD; INDIA FINISH WITH TWO MEDALS

SHANGHAI: The Indian trio of Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and teenager Kumkum Mohod held their nerve in a tense shoot-off to beat home favourites China and clinch the women’s recurve team gold medal at the Archery World Cup Stage 2 here on Sunday. In...

PSG EDGE BAYERN TO ENTER ITS SECOND SUCCESSIVE FINAL; TITLE CLASH WITH ARSENAL

MUNICH: Holders Paris Saint-Germain set up a Champions League final against Arsenal after a 1-1 second-leg draw at Bayern Munich secured a 6-5 aggregate victory on Wednesday. PSG exploded on the counter less than three minutes in and Ballon d’Or...

SAKA BREACHES ATLETICO CITADEL, ENDING ARSENAL’S 20-YEAR WAIT TO ENTER FINAL

LONDON: Arsenal reached the Champions League final for the first time in 20 years as Bukayo Saka sealed a 1-0 win against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday. Mikel Arteta’s side settled the semi-final second leg with Saka’s strike late in the first half at an...

People’s power has prevailed; politics of good governance has triumphed: Modi

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said people’s power prevailed and the BJP’s politics of good governance triumphed in West Bengal, while in Assam, the NDA’s win illustrated the unwavering support for the ruling alliance’s emphasis on...

Nine dead as fire breaks out in residential building in E Delhi

NEW DELHI: A fire ripped through a residential building in east Delhi’s Vivek Vihar early Sunday, leaving nine people from two families dead, including a toddler, officials said. The incident was reported at 3.48 am at a four-storey building in Vivek...

TROPICAL FOREST LOSS FELL 36% IN 2025 AFTER HITTING RECORD HIGH IN 2024: U.S. DATA

New data from the US shows that the loss of primary humid tropical forests slowed down in 2025. But it was still 46% higher than a decade earlier, and last year saw a relative lull in wildfires after a bad year in 2024. Agriculture was the biggest...

GOALS GALORE AS PSG BEATS BAYERN 5-4 IN RECORD-SETTING SEMI-FINAL

Titleholder Paris Saint-Germain trailed early, led by three goals and ultimately held on for a pulsating 5-4 win over Bayern Munich in the highest-scoring semifinal match in Champions League history. And there’s still next week’s second leg to...

PM inaugurates development projects worth ₹4,000 cr on first day of Sikkim tour

GANGTOK: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day tour of Sikkim, played football with some boys and girls here on Tuesday morning, and described the soccer session as “energising”. Modi shared on social media a few photographs in which he is...

PAK STILL WORKING TO BRIDGE U.S., IRAN GAPS DESPITE FAILURE OF FACE-TO-FACE TALKS

WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD: Work has not halted to bridge gaps between the United States and Iran, sources from mediator Pakistan said, despite the failure of face-to-face diplomacy after Donald Trump called off a trip by his envoys and said Iran should...

TRUMP SAFE AFTER SHOOTING AT WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington by Secret Service agents on Saturday night after a man opened fire on security personnel nearby. The...

MANCHESTER CITY SOAR TO THE TOP, BURNLEY RELEGATED

BURNLEY: Manchester City edged ahead of Arsenal at the top of the Premier League as a 1-0 victory at Turf Moor condemned Burnley to relegation on Wednesday. The defeat confirmed the Clarets’ third Premier League relegation in five seasons, consigning...

EXTREME WEATHER A GROWING THREAT TO POLLS AND DEMOCRACY: REPORT

STOCKHOLM: Floods, fires and extreme weather increasingly pose a threat to democracy, with at least 94 elections and referendums in 52 countries disrupted by natural hazards over the past two decades, a report published Wednesday said. Between 2006...

INDIA JOINS IN CELEBRATING ‘OUR POWER, OUR PLANET’

World Earth Day, which falls on April 22, is observed across the globe annually to demonstrate support for environmental protection. This year’s theme is Our Power, Our Planet, emphasising collective community action, reducing plastic use and advancing...

CEASEFIRE AT RISK AFTER U.S. SEIZES IRANIAN SHIP; TEHRAN SHUNS PEACE TALKS

DUBAI: A ceasefire between the United States and Iran appeared in jeopardy on Monday after the United States said it had seized an Iranian cargo ship that tried to run its blockade and Tehran vowed to retaliate, refusing for now to join new peace...

U.S. NEGOTIATORS WILL BE IN PAKISTAN ON MONDAY FOR TALKS WITH IRAN: TRUMP

WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump said that US negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for talks with Iran, lifting hopes of extending a ceasefire set to expire this week even as Washington and Tehran remain locked in a standoff over the Strait...

HOPES FOR DEAL TO END IRAN WAR GROW, BUT NUCLEAR ISSUES STILL UNRESOLVED

JERUSALEM/ISLAMABAD: Optimism grew on Thursday that the Iran war may be near an end, with a key Pakistani mediator having made a breakthrough on “sticky issues”, a source said, although Iran warned the fate of its nuclear program had not been...

Class 10: Trivandrum, Vijayawada top with 99.79% pass percentage; Delhi logs 97.38%

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday declared the Class 10 results for 2026, recording a marginal improvement of 0.04 percentage points in overall performance, with 93.70% students passing this year compared to 93.66%...

ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING INCREASING EARTH’S BRIGHTNESS AT NIGHT: DATA

Daily satellite observations have revealed a continued nighttime brightening globally due to artificial lighting, with important regional variations including a surge in sub-Saharan Africa and South-east Asia alongside a deliberate dimming in Europe...

IRAN THREATENS TO RETALIATE AGAINST GULF PORTS FOR U.S. BLOCKADE

WASHINGTON/DUBAI: The US military said it will begin a blockade of ships leaving Iran’s ports on Monday, and Tehran threatened to retaliate against ports of its Gulf neighbours after weekend talks on ending the war broke down, putting a ceasefire at...

MELLIFLUOUS VOICE FALLS SILENT: ASHA BHOSLE NO MORE

Asha Bhosle’s sensuous and soulful voice struck a million emotive chords down generations, the one they woke up to in the morning, tuned into at night, romanced and mourned loves that were never to be, and also jived and rock and rolled to. One half...

CEASEFIRE TEETERS IN FACE OF DISAGREEMENTS OVER LEBANON AND HORMUZ

A tentative ceasefire in the Iran war staggered Thursday under the weight of Israel’s intense bombardment of Beirut, Tehran’s continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, and uncertainty over whether negotiators can find common ground on a range of...

U.S., ISRAEL AND IRAN AGREE TO 2-WEEK CEASEFIRE BUT STRAY ATTACKS CONTINUE

TEHRAN: Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire, an 11th-hour deal that allowed US President Donald Trump to pull back from his threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization. Hours after the...

ARTEMIS II BREAKS APOLLO 13’S DISTANCE RECORD WITH DARING MOON FLYBY

HOUSTON: After travelling deeper into space than any other humans, the Artemis II astronauts pointed their moonship toward home Monday night, wrapping up a lunar cruise that revealed views of the far side never beheld by eyes until now. Their flyby of...

U.S., IRAN STUDY CEASEFIRE PLAN AS TRUMP’S ‘HELL’ WARNING NEARS DEADLINE

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: On the eve of a US deadline, the United States and Iran on Monday were weighing the framework of a plan to end their fiveweek-old conflict, even as Tehran pushed back against pressure to swiftly reopen the Strait of Hormuz. President...

ARTEMIS ASTRONAUTS GLIMPSE MOON’S ‘GRAND CANYON’ AHEAD OF LUNAR FLYBY

HOUSTON: The Artemis astronauts have taken in sights of the Moon never before seen by human eyes, crew members reported on Sunday as their spacecraft crossed the twothirds mark on their journey to a long-anticipated lunar flyby. As the astronauts went...

ASTRONAUTS REACH SAFE ORBIT IN HISTORIC MOON MISSION

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ARTEMIS II MISSION: REACHING FOR THE MOON

U.S. SAYS COMING DAYS IN IRAN WAR WILL BE DECISIVE, URGES TEHRAN TO MAKE A DEAL

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday the next few days in the war against Iran would be decisive and warned Tehran that the conflict would intensify if it did not make a deal. Hegseth issued his warning hours after...

IRAN TERMS U.S. PEACE PROPOSALS UNREALISTIC, TRUMP ISSUES FRESH WARNING TO TEHRAN

TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD : President Donald Trump warned on Monday that Iran’s energy plants and oil wells would be obliterated if it did not open the Strait of Hormuz, after Tehran described US peace proposals as unrealistic and fired waves of...

IRAN WARNS U.S. OVER GROUND ATTACK

Iran said it was ready to respond to a US ground attack, accusing Washington on Sunday of preparing a land assault even as it sought negotiations and as regional powers held talks in Pakistan to try to end the fighting. The foreign ministers of...

U.S. JURY FINDS META, YOUTUBE LIABLE IN SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION TRIAL

Shares of Meta closed up 0.3%, and Google parent Alphabet finished 0.2% higher. US law strongly protects social media companies from liability for what is on their platforms, but the plaintiff in the Los Angeles proceeding focused on platform design...

NASA PLANS MOON BASE, NUKE SPACECRAFT IN PROGRAMME EXPANSION

WASHINGTON: Nasa announced on Tuesday it has cancelled plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit and will instead use components from the project to build a $20-billion base on the Moon’s surface, while also planning to send a nuclear-powered...

IRAN RAINS MISSILES ONTO ISRAEL, MAKES A JIBE AT TRUMP’S CLAIM ON STRAIT

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV: Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday, a day after US President Donald Trump said there had been “very good and productive” talks aiming at halting the war unleashed by the US and Israel now raging across...

HIMALAYAN GLACIERS’ ICE LOSS RATES DOUBLED SINCE 2000: MAJOR REPORTS

The Himalayan mountain range holds the largest volume of ice outside the poles, the report said, adding that these are also the source of at least 10 major Asian river systems, supporting the food, water, energy, and livelihood security of billions of...

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE FEARED AT KEY ENERGY SITES AS IRAN, ISRAEL TRADE BLOWS

LARGE HADRON COLLIDER DISCOVERS NEW PROTON-LIKE PARTICLE

WITH SIX AWARDS, PAUL ANDERSON WINS ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

LOS ANGELES: The darkly comic thriller One Battle After Another won Best Picture at the Academy Awards, leading a haul of six trophies on a Sunday night when Hollywood handed its top movie honours to unconventional stories. The offbeat tale of...

ENVIRONMENT, ANOTHER CASUALTY OF WEST ASIA WAR

PARIS: From the jet fuel used in bombing raids to acrid smoke from burning oil depots, the conflict in the West Asia is inflicting a significant toll on nature and the climate. This news agency interviewed experts about the environmental cost of war...

OIL TANKERS BURN AS IRANIAN STRIKES DEFY TRUMP’S CLAIM TO HAVE WON WAR

DUBAI/HEBRON, KENTUCKY: Two tankers were ablaze in an Iraqi port on Thursday after a hit by suspected Iranian explosive-laden boats, a step up in attacks that have cut off oil from West Asia and defied Donald Trump’s claim to have won the war. Images...

IRAN FIRES BACK AT BASES AND SHIPS DESPITE WAR’S MOST INTENSIVE STRIKES

DUBAI/TEL AVIV: Iran fired at Israel and targets across the West Asia on Wednesday, while at least three ships were hit in the Gulf, demonstrating Tehran can still fight back and disrupt energy supplies despite the most intense US-Israeli strikes...

HEAVIEST DAY OF STRIKES YET ON IRAN DESPITE MARKET BETS TRUMP WILL END WAR SOON

DUBAI/TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON: The United States and Israel pounded Iran on Tuesday with what both the Pentagon and Iranians on the ground described as the most intense airstrikes of the conflict, despite global markets betting that President Donald Trump...

BARBADOS TO AHMEDABAD: INDIA’S ERA OF UNPARALLELED DOMINANCE

NEW DELHI: If Barbados was about breaking a curse, Ahmedabad was about building a kingdom. Simply put, India’s current stranglehold on the shortest format is without precedent in cricketing history. The home team’s 96-run thrashing of New Zealand in...

EXQUISITE FOSSIL OF ONE OF THE SMALLEST DINOSAURS FOUND IN ARGENTINA

Researchers have found a well-preserved and nearly complete skeleton of one of the world’s smallest-known dinosaurs, named Alnashetri cerropoliciensis. It was about the size of a crow and probably hunted small animals like lizards, snakes, mammals and...

ISRAEL TARGETS INFRASTRUCTURE IN LARGE STRIKES ON TEHRAN

DUBAI/JERUSALEM: The US-Israeli campaign against Iran entered its sixth day on Thursday with what residents described as even more intensive bombing, while Iran vowed to retaliate anywhere for a US attack on a ship thousands of miles from the battle...

IRAN CONFLICT WIDENS TO LEBANON; KUWAIT MISTAKENLY SHOOTS DOWN U.S. JETS

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: The US-Israeli air war against Iran expanded on Monday with no end in sight, with Israel attacking Lebanon in response to strikes by Hezbollah, and Tehran firing missiles and drones at Gulf states and a British air base as far away as...

IRAN’S TOP LEADER ALI KHAMENEI KILLED; ISRAEL, IRAN LAUNCH FRESH ATTACKS

JERUSALEM: Israel launched a new wave of strikes on Tehran on Sunday, saying it aimed to dominate the skies after killing Iran’s supreme leader and leaving the Islamic Republic grappling to rebuild its leadership amid its biggest test in five...