India are set to get a major boost ahead of the T20I series against Afghanistan starting later this month. All-rounders Hardik Pandya and Nitish Kumar Reddy are fit and available for selection, while Washington Sundar is nearing the necessary clearances for the fixtures starting September 13 in Delhi. It is reliably learnt that both Pandya…
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro smiles and flashes a peace sign in a photograph. (Photo: @NicolasMaduro) Two photographs posted to Nicolás Maduro’s official social-media accounts on Sunday appear to show the former Venezuelan president smiling and making peace signs at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, nearly eight months after US forces captured him in…
Top stocks to buy today on August 31, 2026 Stock market recommendations: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, and Ramkrishna Forgings are the top stocks to buy recommended by Sudeep Shah, Head – Technical Research and Derivatives, SBI Securities on August 31, 2026. Technical outlook for Nifty and Bank Nifty have also been shared by the analyst. Let’s take…
Jagdishan is serving his second three-year term as the lender’s head Shares of HDFC Bank climbed nearly 3 per cent on Monday, bucking a weak broader market, after MD and CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan announced his decision to not seek reappointment when his current term ends on October 26.The stock gained 2.70 per cent to Rs…
In the remote savanna-woodlands of Guinea-Bissau, scientists are investigating a strange chimpanzee behaviour that has persisted for more than a decade. Wild western chimpanzees repeatedly collect rocks and hurl them at the same trees, creating piles of stones and leaving visible scars on the trunks. Known as accumulative stone throwing, the behaviour is particularly associated…
Long before she became one of Indian cinema’s most respected filmmakers, Aparna Sen was a schoolgirl in Kolkata’s Ballygunge, quietly observing the elderly residents of a nearby old-age home during her daily walks to Modern High School for Girls. Those observations, combined with her closeness to the Anglo-Indian teachers at her school, would eventually shape…
There is always that one person who packs for a three-day trip as if they are preparing for a month-long expedition. Extra clothes, backup shoes, medicines for every possible ailment, snacks they may never eat and enough “just in case” items to handle several imaginary emergencies. It may look like overpacking, but psychology suggests there…
You don’t always have to do something to feel better right now. Sometimes, all you need is to slow down. Take a shower, change clothes, lay on your bed, listen to some music or sit in silence for a while. You don’t have to turn everything into a productive or fun task. You don’t have…
AriesPeople become easier to deal with as the month begins. A partner, spouse or client may finally be ready for a sensible conversation. Work contacts can also open a useful door. Home becomes slightly unsettled after 18 September, so do not carry office frustration into family matters. Expenses are still running in the background. Keep…
US military leaders reportedly warned Iran that operation has become “too much for too long”, citing strain on troops and readiness. Several senior US military leaders reportedly warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran was unsustainable and could weaken the military’s ability to respond to threats elsewhere, including against the US…
chum salmon Representative image In the early 1990s, fewer than 1,000 threatened summer-run chum salmon made it back to the Big Quilcene River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula each year. Decades of logging, road building and habitat degradation had left the river choked with sediment, its gravel spawning beds buried and its side channels disconnected. Today,…
Eight-year-old Zoyal Ghale was at school in Nepal’s Rasuwa district when a devastating torrent of water, mud and debris tore through the area. With the flood sweeping through his surroundings, the young boy ran towards a forest with a friend and climbed trees to escape the rising waters. He survived. But for his mother, the…
