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The missile launches came as efforts continued to reach an agreement between Iran and Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz The United Arab Emirates’ defence ministry said on Tuesday that it had detected two ballistic missiles launched from Iran towards the Gulf country, as tensions continued to rise across the region.The ministry said both missiles fell into water, with one landing outside the UAE’s territorial waters and the other inside them. It said the country remained prepared to respond to any threats.“The Ministry of Defence confirms that it is on high alert and fully prepared to deal with any…
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurates 56-km Sabalgarh-Birpur rail section in Madhya Pradesh Source link
New Delhi: Global warming breaching three degrees Celsius will affect older adults in India, China, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, accounting for 1.5 billion people, or 73 per cent of the total affected population worldwide, a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal has projected.Older people could face serious health risks from heat at lower temperatures than previously estimated, it found.South Asia and the Persian Gulf regions are shown to be the most exposed, where older adults could face a dangerous heat day and night for three months straight once warming reaches three degrees Celsius or above, researchers, including those…
Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi, left, reviews structural reforms at the National Testing Agency (NTA).New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has begun a major restructuring of its examination machinery, with around 600 experts removed from its examination team and new experts being onboarded as part of measures to strengthen the conduct and security of national-level entrance and eligibility tests.The development comes a day after the government ordered an overhaul of the NTA’s examination system and directed a comprehensive audit of the testing process.Following a review meeting with Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi, the NTA Director General apprised the minister…
Before becoming Anurag’s partner, Shubhra worked as an assistant director at Phantom Films. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and his partner Shubhra Shetty have opened up about their relationship, their 20-year age gap and the early days of their romance. In a recent conversation with Janice Sequeira, the couple spoke about Shubhra’s parents’ reaction to their relationship, how they managed working together while dating, their first date and how a journalist eventually outed their relationship.Shubhra revealed that her parents did not need much convincing when she began dating Anurag, who is around 20 years older than her. Instead, they met him themselves…
Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters India Ratings & Research on Tuesday (August 18, 2026) projected India’s GDP growth to slow down to 6.8% in the current fiscal year, as against 7.6% in the previous year, citing risks from fuel and food inflation stemming from West Asia conflict’s uncertainty, weak currency, and the likely impact of El Niño on agriculture.The FY27 GDP growth projection at 6.8 per cent is a tad higher than the 6.7% growth Ind-Ra had projected in May.Earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had raised growth projections from 6.6% to…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced sanctions against the president and a senior lawyer of the International Criminal Court (ICC).The move is the Trump administration’s latest escalation in its campaign to “dismantle” the court which is empowered by more than 120 member countries to investigate war crimes.Rubio said the US was sanctioning ICC President Tomoko Akane of Japan and ICC Senior Trial Lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal following an order from President Donald Trump’s targeting the court last year.He accused them of directly engaging “in efforts by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute officials whose government…
Recently, India-based defence start-up D-Propulse announced that it had successfully demonstrated a rotating detonation engine at a Defence Research & Development Organisation facility in Hyderabad.A rotating detonation engine, or RDE, is an engine design that promises to use fuel more efficiently than conventional rocket engines. Launching satellites to space on rockets and carrying explosives to distant targets on missiles are both expensive. If an engine can use fuel more efficiently, it will need correspondingly less fuel to achieve the same task. This saving can be passed to the payload, whether a satellite or a warhead, increasing the profitability of the…
Rodri (Pic credit: FC Barcelona) Barcelona have officially announced the signing of Spain captain Rodri from Manchester City, adding one of the world’s most accomplished midfielders to a squad already packed with Spanish talent.The 30-year-old midfielder has signed a contract that will keep him at the Catalan club until 2030, Barcelona confirmed on Tuesday after he completed his medical and the final details of the transfer were settled.The deal is reportedly worth 76.5 million euros ($88.5 million), according to a person familiar with the transaction who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the clubs had not…
Reform UK has suspended prominent former Conservative Tim Montgomerie after he criticised senior party figures, including Nigel Farage, in media interviews.Montgomerie, who defected to Reform 18 months ago after a long career as a Tory adviser and commentator, has said he plans to appeal against the suspension.On Friday, Montgomerie told the BBC he was frustrated at Farage’s “aggrieved” tone after the Clacton by-election – and on Monday he told The Spectator podcast, external that Reform’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf was not a “team player”.Reform said he had been suspended “in line with party rules” after public criticism of the…