India has already suffered one of the worst GLOF disasters in recent times when, on Oct 3, 2023, glacial rocks of 14.7 cubic meters collapsed in South Lhonak Lake in Sikkim NEW DELHI: The Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) disaster in Nepal on Wednesday has renewed discussion on India’s own strategy and preparedness to mitigate…
Mark Carney hits back after Donald Trump ‘renames’ Lake Ontario Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday (local time) rejected US President Donald Trump’s move to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America, declaring that the iconic water body would remain known as Lake Ontario “today and forever.”In a social media post following Trump’s signing of…
With ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ gearing up for its release this December, director Joe Russo is giving fans some homework. Besides rolling out a list of 15 Marvel films and television shows to watch before they can watch the epic conclusion of the Multiverse Saga, the Russo brothers have now hinted that revisiting ‘Avengers: Endgame’ or watching…
Raksha Bandhan in 2026 falls on Friday, August 28th. The optimal window for tying Rakhi in New Delhi is from 5:57 AM to 9:48 AM. However, Thursday, August 27th, features Bhadra Kaal, which should be avoided for the ritual as it brings unfavorable energies. Families are encouraged to perform the tying of Rakhi at the…
The trail continued into India as Narayani becomes Gandak downstream. SSB teams recovered bodies of two women and a man in Maharajganj. NEW DELHI: Barely seven minutes separated the seismic signal generated by Wednesday’s Himalayan collapse from the destructive surge reaching Rasuwagadhi at the Nepal-Tibet border, but the flood’s trail stretched nearly 200km downstream. Bodies…
In 1776, a Gettysburg minister built his stone home Gettysburg’s oldest surviving building, the 1776 Dobbin House, marked its 250th anniversary on Wednesday, 26 August 2026, celebrating two and a half centuries since Irish-born Presbyterian minister Reverend Alexander Dobbin completed the stone home. The anniversary was marked with a public reenactment of Dobbin’s original 1776…
Yash-starrer ‘Toxic: A Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups’ went to court over alleged defamatory and malicious online content surrounding the film. A Bengaluru civil court issued an ex-parte temporary injunction restricting the publication and circulation of allegedly false, malicious, defamatory or derogatory content concerning the film. The order was passed on August 22, days before the…
1 (Those born on the 1st, 10th, 19th and 28th of any month, are ruled by the Numerology number 1)You’ll feel the push to take charge today, and that’s no small thing. Number 1 is ruled by the Sun, so your natural style is to lead from the front, and on 28th August that fire…
PM Modi will begin the trip in Tashkent and will then travel to Bishkek to attend the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic from August 29 to September 1, with Central Asia’s strategic and economic importance high…
“We’re still just stuck waiting for other people to make decisions about our future,” leaseholder Sarah Williams says [BBC] Former residents of a London apartment block destroyed in a major fire are still paying monthly mortgages on homes that were reduced to rubble two years ago. The fire at the seven-storey Spectrum Building on Freshwater…
