File photo: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman (Picture credit: PTI) India’s ambition to become a Viksit Bharat requires an economy in which enterprises of every size can grow, wherever they begin. Over the past 12 years, our govt has worked to create those conditions. GST’s introduction in 2017 established a common national framework for indirect…
A $3 purchase at a South Carolina Goodwill store turned into one of the most remarkable thrift-store art discoveries in recent memory. The buyer, a former antiques dealer identified only by his middle name, Leroy, spotted an oil painting in an antique frame and assumed it might be worth a few hundred dollars. His daughter-in-law…
On the cusp of the studio’s merger with Paramount, Warner Bros.’ ‘Digger’ flopped in its opening weekend, handing Tom Cruise one of the worst debuts of his career and serving as a bitter final note for Warner Bros. as a standalone studio. Tom Cruise’ ‘Digger’ flops at box office ‘Digger’, one of the year’s biggest…
File photo: B‑1B Lancer bomber at the RAF Fairford airbase (Picture credit: Reuters) The United States has withdrawn all its bombers from RAF Fairford in England, a US-run military base that had been used to launch strikes on Iran, following an investigation into a suspected terror plot targeting the facility.The bombers have been redeployed to…
Since 1967, corn buntings have declined by 83% in the UK. But over the decade, the bird population around Martin Down, on the Hampshire-Dorset border, has risen by 346%.The red-listed bird is not the only one to benefit. Grey partridges in the same cluster are up 147%. Butterfly abundance has climbed 183%. Turtle doves, barn…
The biggest proposed change is in doing away with the power to arrest, which rests with the court instead of officials, as is the case for some offences (representative image) NEW DELHI: GST Council looks set to unveil a series of ambitious reforms that will cover the whole field of processes: from faster registration to…
Nathan Gael Montelongo, the La Joya, Texas seventh-grader who turned restaurant shellfish shells into chitosan (Image Credit: Society for Science) A fishing trip along the Rio Grande led a La Joya, Texas, seventh-grader to investigate whether discarded shellfish shells could help remove pollution from water. Nathan Gael Montelongo became interested in the problem after a…
In 2021, Australian engineers mixed shredded single-use face masks with processed building rubble for road bases; the material met engineering standards, and 1 km of two-lane road could use about 3 million masks/Image: RMIT University About 3 million single-use face masks could be used to build the base of a one-kilometre, two-lane road, according to…
LONDON: Two 17-year-old teenagers have been jailed for 10 years in the UK for an arson attack at an Indian restaurant in London in August last year, leaving multiple diners seriously injured.On August 22, 2025, the two, along with a third accomplice, all masked, had stormed the eatery, Indian Aroma, ordering customers to remain in…
Ankith BurkiPhoto: Society for Science For Ankith Burki, the global water crisis was not an abstract classroom topic but a challenge worth trying to solve. The seventh-grader from BASIS Independent Silicon Valley in San Jose designed an atmospheric water generator that pulls moisture from humid air, then tested whether sound could make it more effective….