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New Delhi: Global Health, which operates hospitals under the Medanta brand, on Wednesday said its profit after tax declined 34 per cent year-on-year to Rs 95 crore in the third quarter ended December 2025.The healthcare firm reported a profit of Rs 143 crore in the year-ago period.Revenue from operations rose to Rs 1,121 crore during the reporting quarter as against Rs 943 crore in the same period last year, Global Health said in a regulatory filing.Profit after tax was impacted by Noida hospital depreciation and finance cost in addition to initial operating losses, it added.Additionally, the post-tax profit was further…

Children grapple with Estonian, their faces a mix of confusion and bewilderment as their teacher explains on the whiteboard.Narva, Feb 06, 2026 -When Estonian mother Jelizaveta Ponomarjova’s elder daughter started fourth grade in September, she did not understand what her teacher was saying.For the first three years of primary school, 10-year-old Tasja had been taught in Russian.Then, in the fourth grade, classes began in Estonian, which has a reputation for being one of the world’s most difficult languages.”Mum, I don’t understand anything,” Tasja would say. “Our teacher speaks only Estonian.”The first two weeks were especially tough, the 30-year-old mother of…

Director Abrid Shine’s ‘Spa’ has received an ‘A’ certificate and is set for a February 12 release. Shine describes the film as a fun, adult-oriented entertainer set within a spa, promising a soft, humorous tone. The movie features a strong ensemble cast and a dedicated technical crew, with its first song marking singer Minmini’s comeback. The movie ‘Spa’ is now fully censored and the team has officially announced that the film has received an A certificate. The makers have also fixed the release date as February 12. This is a special moment for director Abrid Shine, because this is the…

Last Updated:January 30, 2026, 11:18 ISTNASA has developed its supercomputer to help plan space missions, calculate the strategy for their tasks and more.Athena is the new-gen supercomputer that could change the face of space missionsNASA is the latest entity to design and develop its own powerful supercomputer called Athena that will be enabling the space agency to execute for space missions and handle other advanced computing tasks. Set up in California, Athena will help NASA to simulate the calculations and tracking of the space and other unknown entities far away. But like every other supercomputer predating Athena, NASA will be…

India fully protects sensitive wheat, rice, poultry under trade pact with U.S. India has fully protected sensitive agricultural and dairy products such as maize, wheat, rice, soya, poultry, milk, cheese, ethanol (fuel), tobacco, certain vegetables and meat, as no duty concessions have been granted to the U.S. on these goods under the trade agreement.“The agreement reflects India’s commitment to safeguarding farmers’ interests and sustaining rural livelihoods by completely protecting sensitive agricultural and dairy products, including maize, wheat, rice, soya, poultry, milk, cheese, ethanol (fuel), tobacco, certain vegetables and meat,” Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said in a social media post.As…

The stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355, which resides in our Milky Way galaxy’s inner regions are seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image. | Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. – B.R. SravanThe main reason is surface temperature.Stars behave roughly as objects that absorb all incoming radiation and radiate energy back based solely on their temperature.The colour we see depends on the wavelength of light where the star emits the most energy. According to Wien’s law, hotter stars emit more energy at bluer wavelengths.Blue and blue-white stars have surface temperatures of 10,000 K or more. These…

Pakistan’s Usman Tariq celebrates after takin the wicket of South Africa’s Reeza Hendricks during the third T20 cricket match between Pakistan and South Africa, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) New Delhi: It was 2017. Haseeb ur Rahman vividly remembers the night he and his cousin Usman Tariq were having dinner and watching MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, a biopic on the former India captain. That night changed Tariq’s life forever. After watching the movie, he decided to pursue his true passion, cricket, and left Dubai for the second time to make a name for himself.“He…

However, the official declined to share more details on the responses saying the Ministry was still examining it.  | Photo Credit: Dado Ruvic The Indian government on Wednesday said that it was not satisfied by the responses sent by Elon Musk-owned X (formerly twitter), which was asked to submit a detailed action taken report (ATR) on the misuse of its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok.“We are not satisfied with the responses from X and we will seek more details from them…what all happened, how it happened, under which jurisdiction…we will seek more details,” a source from the Ministry of Electronics…

Kolkata: Even as the state assembly’s budget session is due to commence in February, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit New Delhi where she is expected to discuss with MPs and Opposition leaders the harassment meted out to citizens during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. Banerjee hinted about her Delhi programme during an informal interaction on the sidelines of the ‘At Home’ ceremony hosted by governor CV Ananda Bose at the Raj Bhavan on Republic Day late Sunday evening. Meanwhile, the tabling of the state’s interim budget has been postponed to February 5 because of…

Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) collected Rs 556.2 crore in property tax for 2025–26 by Jan end, falling more than Rs 200 crore short of its annual target of Rs 841 crore, a major revenue setback for the cash-strapped civic body.Property tax is one of TMC’s largest sources of income, funding key civic services and infrastructure projects. The shortfall intensified pressure on the corporation to manage its finances effectively, especially as only two months are available to recover the shortfall.According to an official release detailing the collections administrative ward-wise, the Majiwada–Manpada ward recorded the highest collection at Rs 175…