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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…

NEW DELHI: The killer pit – 20 feet long, 14 feet deep and 13 feet wide – in which Kamal Dhyani’s body was found is bang on Joginder Singh Marg in Janakpuri, a stretch dotted with at least four other pits, just as gaping. Like this one – large enough to swallow a four-wheeler – they have been dug by Delhi Jal Board (DJB) for underground sewer work. A spot inspection of the stretch by TOI revealed multiple safety lapses.Before Friday morning, just two brown barricades had been placed near the traffic light at the start of this stretch, leaving…

Bengaluru: Nearly three years after its launch by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mysuru, the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) is set to hold its first key meeting in Bengaluru this Sunday. The inaugural session comes ahead of the international summit scheduled to be held in New Delhi later this year, as announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget. Forest department sources told TOI although IBCA was launched in April 2023, it was formally constituted only in Jan 2025. “As a prelude to the forthcoming global summit in Delhi, the Centre chose Bengaluru to host the inaugural…

Hyderabad: Expressing concern over history been sidelined for decades, heritage experts on Friday stressed the urgent need to bring it back into the mainstream. At the History Literary Fest held at the Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet, historians, conservationists and educators came together to highlight India’s forgotten past and its relevance to the present.The travelling festival, now in its fourth edition, aims to build awareness of India’s cultural legacy and the many historic structures that exist across the country.Tejaswini Yerlagadda of the Pleach India Foundation said a large section of the population remains unaware of its own heritage. “Almost 80% of…

Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin on Friday laid the foundation stone for a sea turtle conservation centre at Children’s Park in Guindy. The centre will provide specialised infrastructure for scientific research, telemetry, monitoring and centralised data management, function as a training and capacity-building hub, serve as a public education and outreach platform, and act as a nodal institution for inter-departmental coordination and technical expertise, said a release. The centre will strengthen institutional capacity and address the growing scientific and operational complexity of marine turtle conservation, it said. The centre is being established under the Tamil Nadu Sustainably Harnessing Ocean…

Ahmedabad: Gujarat forest officials are investigating the possibility of a second tiger in the Ratanmahal area after discovering fresh pugmarks and a blurred camera-trap photograph. A comprehensive analysis is underway to determine whether the lone confirmed tiger in the sanctuary area has found company. Officials reported finding a new set of pugmarks that appeared noticeably smaller than those belonging to the known big cat. The size discrepancy has led field teams to investigate whether another tiger may be traversing the same Ratanmahal landscape.Senior forest officials in Gandhinagar acknowledged that a camera trap captured an image, but it lacks sufficient clarity…