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

US President Donald Trump displays the signed Memorandum of Understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles in France . French President Emmanuel Macron is also seen. Right, Vessels at the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Musandam, Oman, on Thursday

MAGICAL MESSI EQUALS WC GOALS RECORD AS ARGENTINA WIN

Lionel Messi opened his sixth World Cup with a hat-trick to become the tournament’s joint all-time top scorer on Tuesday, as title holders Argentina launched their quest for back-to-back titles with a 3-0 rout of Algeria.

G7: Modi has brief conversation with Trump; set for bilateral meets with world leaders

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Tuesday exchanged pleasantries and held a brief conversation at the G7 summit in the French commune of Evian-les-Bains in the first in-person encounter between the two leaders in nearly...

Modi holds talks with Slovak counterpart as two sides elevate bilateral ties, ink 11 pacts

India and Slovakia on Monday elevated their ties to a comprehensive partnership and firmed up 11 agreements to expand the bilateral cooperation in a range of areas such as migration, digital technology and defence following talks between Prime Minister...

India now a provider of global solutions, not just consumer, says PM in France

India is no longer just a consumer of global solutions, but a major contributor to them, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday while laying out New Delhi’s vision for a sustainable future for the world through innovation and technology. The...

More govt schools may offer science stream in Class 11

The Delhi government is planning to increase the number of government schools offering science stream options, prioritising schools where demand is high, Delhi education minister Ashish Sood told HT on Wednesday, in a push to promote STEM (science,...

W Asia situation: India tells its citizens not to visit Iran, urges those there to exit soon

DUBAI: India on Monday reiterated its warning to its nationals in Iran to avoid any travel to the country and exit the region by available means of transport. The advisory comes in view of the latest developments in the region. In the urgent...

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

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 is likely...

BEHAVIOUR OF ATMOSPHERIC WINDS HELP DISCOVER MAGNETIC FIELDS ON EXOPLANETS

An illustration depicts magnetic activity in an exoplanet that is a gas giant like Jupiter, but it orbits very close to its host star and is tidally locked. While one side always faces the star and is scorching hot, the other side is extremely cold....

A 1st: Rubio to testify before Congress since beginning of Iran war

WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to face a litany of questions on Tuesday about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world when he appears for back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first...

CBSE’s Class 12 post result verification and re-evaluation portal to go live soon: Official

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 post-result verification and re-evaluation portal, which was scheduled to go live on Monday but faced technical issues, “will start soon”, a CBSE official told ANI on Monday. The delay has...

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...

IRAN, U.S. CARRY OUT AIR STRIKES; TRUMP DISMISSES REPORT OF HORMUZ DEAL

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: Iran targeted a U.S. air base on Thursday after the United States struck what Washington described as an Iranian drone operation near the Strait of Hormuz and President Donald Trump rejected a reported compromise deal with Tehran. 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...

CLIMATE CHANGE THREATENS GLOBAL PLANT SPECIES AS HABITATS SHRINK

Researchers have found that 7% to 16% of vascular plants, a category that accounts for almost all the plants – those with water– and nutrientcarrying tissues could lose more than 90% of their range, placing them at high risk of extinction. Plants which...

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

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 “another way.” US...

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...

XI TELLS TRUMP THAT MISHANDLING OF TAIWAN COULD SPARK CONFLICT

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned his US counterpart Donald Trump that missteps on Taiwan could push their two countries into “conflict”, a stark opening salvo as they met in Beijing on Thursday at a superpower summit. Trump arrived in...

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...

CORAL REEFS SECRETLY CONNECTED ACROSS OCEANS, WHICH IS VITAL FOR THEIR SURVIVAL

MELBOURNE: Lord Howe Island lies in the middle of the ocean, about 700 km northeast of Sydney. It’s covered in lush forest and fringed by the world’s most southerly coral reef ecosystem. This reef system isn’t as famous as its northern neighbour, the...

Need of the hour is to use petro products with restraint, says PM amid West Asia crisis

HYDERABAD: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the need of the hour, in the wake of the West Asia crisis, is to use petro products with restraint. Speaking at an event here where he virtually laid the foundation stone and inaugurated...

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...

WEST ASIA TRUCE IN PERIL AS U.S., IRAN VIE FOR CONTROL OF HORMUZ STRAIT

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: A fragile truce in the Gulf was in danger on Tuesday after the US and Iran exchanged fire as they wrestled for control of the Strait of Hormuz, and Tehran warned it had “not even begun yet” in its bid to strengthen its hold on the...

ICSE, ISC results declared: Over 99% pupils clear the exams; girls outperform boys

NEW DELHI: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) on Thursday declared the Class 10 and Class 12 board examination results for 2026 that showed a marginal improvement in overall pass percentages from last year. A total of...

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

Agence France-Presse 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...

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

Researchers documented a 16% net increase in global nighttime light from 2014 to 2022, but showed it was not a steady brightening but rather a patchwork of increasing and decreasing regional brightness shaped by numerous factors. WASHINGTON: Daily...

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

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...

NCERT now a deemed to be university; will offer higher education courses: Govt

NEW DELHI: The Centre has declared the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) an “Institution deemed to be University under distinct category”, in a move aimed at strengthening teacher education and educational research in line...

ARTEMIS II MISSION: REACHING FOR THE MOON

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, US : Nasa’s Artemis II mission is set to be the first crewed flyby of the Moon in more than half a century. Here is what to know about the highly anticipated mission that will usher in a new chapter of space exploration: The...

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

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 set ablaze a fully...

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

INSET (from left), Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud, Pakistan's foreign minister Ishaq Dar, Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan and Egyptian foreign minister Badr Abdelatty attend a meeting to discuss West Asia war, in...

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

The case involves a 20-year-old woman, a minor when the case began who is known in court by her first name Kaley. She said she became addicted to Google’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram at a young age because of their attentiongrabbing design, such as...

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

KATHMANDU: Glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalaya are melting at an accelerating rate with ice loss rates doubling since 2000 even as they lost 12% of their area between 1990 and 2020, two reports by ICIMOD said Saturday. Coinciding with the World...

EXTENSIVE DAMAGE FEARED AT KEY ENERGY SITES AS IRAN, ISRAEL TRADE BLOWS >P3

Iran attacked energy infrastructure in the Middle East in retaliation against Israeli attacks on it gas facilities, marking the biggest escalation of the nearly three-week war, sparking a 28% surge in European gas prices and 6% jump in oil prices on...

LARGE HADRON COLLIDER DISCOVERS NEW PROTON-LIKE PARTICLE >P4

PARIS: The Large Hadron Collider has discovered a new particle, the 80th identified so far by the world’s most powerful particle smasher, Europe’s CERN physics laboratory announced Tuesday. The new particle has been named “Xi-cc-plus”. Scientists hope...

SCIENTISTS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH IN STUDY OF WHALE SOUNDS

PORTLAND, MAINE : Researchers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the discovery could help understand how the animals communicate. The recording is the song of a humpback whale, a...

ENVIRONMENT, ANOTHER CASUALTY OF WEST ASIA WAR

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’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...

PM PAYS TRIBUTES TO HOLOCAUST VICTIMS

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accompanied by his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, visited the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem on Thursday. At the Hall of Names, Netanyahu showed Modi the names of his wife Sara’s relatives who had perished in...