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This June 15, 2026, photo from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, upper right, and the under-construction at Pickaxe Mountain directly to the south of it. Photo: Planet Labs PBC via AP U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly issued threats to bomb Pickaxe Mountain, an under-construction Iranian nuclear site buried deep under a mountain.“We’ll be hitting that area … probably pretty soon. And there’s not a thing they can do about it,” Mr. Trump said on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) talking to journalists at the Oval Office, Washington.This fortified site has thus become a focal point of…

Volunteers clean the skeleton of a Mastodonsaurus, a huge amphibian that walked the Earth 240 million years ago, at the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw, Poland. | Photo Credit: AP Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric amphibian in a glass-walled laboratory on the ground floor of Warsaw’s Copernicus Science Centre.On the other side of the wall, visitors watch the work unfold on the bones of the nearly six metre (20 foot)-long skeleton. Children point with excitement while parents contemplate the creature the massive bones once belonged to.…

Expressing confidence in the country’s youth, Singh added that they would not be swayed by what he called attempts to mislead them. NEW DELIH: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday accused the opposition of attempting to use students and young people as “political tools” amid the ongoing protests in Delhi. The defence minister described the demonstrations in the national capital as “a matter of serious concern” and alleged that they were being driven by political interests.”The ongoing protests in Delhi are a matter of serious concern. It is extremely unfortunate that some people are attempting to use the students and…

Employer national insurance (NI) contributions for all under-25s should be cut to boost job opportunities for young people, a group of MPs has urged.The Work and Pensions Committee said it has heard “overwhelming evidence” that rising employment costs, including from employer NI, were reducing training and job vacancies, particularly for young people.Over one million 16 to 24-year-olds are not in education, employment, or training (known as Neet). The committee said an employer NI cut for all under-25s would tackle this “travesty”.The government said it was determined to create opportunities for young people, reform education and support people to stay and…

As heavy downpours continue, Mumbai is on high alert with the IMD raising an orange signal MUMBAI: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday retained the orange alert for Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), forecasting heavy to very heavy rainfall accompanied by gusty winds through the day, even as the sustained monsoon showers pushed Tansa, one of the city’s seven drinking water reservoirs, to overflow.With Tansa joining Vihar and Tulsi, three of Mumbai’s seven lakes are now overflowing, while the combined water stock across all reservoirs has touched 62% of total capacity, providing a boost to the city’s water…

A 21-year-old woman injured during a protest is now conscious and breathing independently NEW DELHI: A 21-year-old woman who was critically injured during the police action at the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) ‘Sansad Chalo’ march on July 20 has been taken off ventilator support and is showing signs of recovery, doctors at Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital said on Wednesday.The woman, identified as Sakshi, a resident of Chhattarpur Extension, is now conscious, breathing on her own and responding appropriately to commands, hospital authorities said.Sakshi had sustained injuries to her face, chest and neck during the protest and was admitted…

Pune: The southwest monsoon’s delayed arrival has significantly slowed paddy transplantation across Pune district this kharif season, with barely 7,000 hectares of the district’s average paddy area of around 61,000 hectares brought under cultivation, so far.Over 40,000 hectares had already been transplanted during the corresponding period last year, showing the impact of a weak start to the monsoon, this year.However, district agriculture officials remained optimistic that the gap would narrow in the coming weeks with rainfall picking up in major paddy-growing regions. They expected transplantation to gather momentum through Aug and reach the district’s normal acreage, eventually.Paddy is cultivated extensively…

Bathinda: A Barnala highway gunfight on Tuesday led to the capture of two men, including a repeat offender linked to the gang of Canada-based Arsh Dalla.Primary suspect Arshdeep Singh, apprehended alongside associate Gursharan Singh, faces charges in 16 criminal cases across Punjab, including murder, attempted murder, weapons offences, and drug trafficking.Barnala’s senior superintendent of police, Mohammad Sarfaraz Alam, said officers laid a trap at an old toll plaza on the Barnala-Ludhiana highway at Mehal Kalan. When the team signalled a sedan to stop, the driver attempted to evade the barricade, and the occupants fired at cops. Police returned fire, intercepted…

tnnLucknow: A Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Tuesday warned of action against schools failing to comply with its directions on deploying traffic marshals to regulate congestion outside campuses and ensure students’ safety.The court directed DCP (traffic) Lucknow to issue notices to schools that have neither deployed traffic marshals nor submitted any proposal for their appointment. Next hearing will be on July 30.A bench of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice BR Singh observed, “On three occasions or more, the schools were found to be flouting the directions of this court in deploying the marshalls, the said fact shall be…

Jaipur: Industrial wastewater management in the Sanganer textile cluster is set to expand, with nearly all member textile units expected to be brought under a common effluent treatment network once a key pumping station is completed in Aug.According to official information, 758 of the 892 member textile units have already been connected to the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP), while the remaining units are proposed to be linked after the completion of the pumping station at Brahmanon Ki Guwar, targeted for Aug.“To meet the deadline, the progress of the CETP pumping station and pipeline project was inspected by additional chief…