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“This really irked me today.” Five simple words. How many of us could utter them on any day about an issue, or a person, or a thing? I try to practice the “nothing’s going to irk me or live rent-free in my head because there are so many wonderful things to think about”, but I…
Responsibility for rehabilitating and cleaning up the Liberty Bell Bay site could ultimately fall to the Tasmanian government, according to legal experts, after administrators failed to secure a buyer for the embattled manganese smelter. Administrators announced on Thursday that they had been unable to secure a buyer for the northern Tasmanian smelter, triggering its immediate…
NEW DELHI: The May NEET-UG paper tested what they knew. Its cancellation tested whether they could go again. And they restarted – reacquiring given-away books in Ludhiana, extending a break from mobile phone in Baramati, preparing in Hindi in Hanumangarh and studying through power cuts in Srinagar. The scrapping of the May exam over a…
The United States has struck bridges in Iran and Tehran has responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait on Friday, local time, as the two sides risk further escalation by expanding their targets to include infrastructure. At sea, where the renewed conflict has again cut off energy supplies from the Gulf, US…
NEW DELHI: NEET-UG’s nationwide attendance fall acquired a regional pattern in 2026, with Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka recording high absenteeism while Rajasthan expanded its candidate base and posted the strongest qualification rate among large states.Kerala had 1.14 lakh registrations, but only 84,664 candidates appeared, leaving 29,122 absent (25.6%). Tamil Nadu lost 33,893 of its…
Spanish star Mikel Merino can smell and see the smoke from the Canadian wildfires that are making for hazy conditions across large parts of the US. But Merino is trying not to focus on it. It remains unclear how much, if at all, the smoke will affect the World Cup final on Monday morning AEST….
NEW DELHI: Govt defended its high-speed rail cooperation with Japan, dismissing the statement of a former Japanese minister blaming India for the lack of progress in the ongoing work on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai ‘bullet train’ project.Describing the comments by former justice minister Hideki Makihara, who accused Indian authorities of not keeping their promises, as the opinion…
Swiss rider Mauro Schmid has edged out Colombian Harold Tejada in a two-way sprint to win the 13th stage of the Tour de France, while defending champion Tadej Pogačar has safely kept his overall lead. With several riders closing in behind them on Friday, Schmid made the decisive move with 200m left and held off…
NEW DELHI: Women formed the majority of NEET-UG candidates and qualifiers again in 2026, but their representation thinned sharply at the very top, with only 30 women among the 138 candidates scoring 690 or more.Women accounted for 13.3 lakh of 22.8 lakh registrations, or 58.5%, and 6.5 lakh of 11.2 lakh candidates who qualified in…
Georgie Cauchi had all the symptoms of bowel cancer, but still aged in her 20s, doctors kept telling her she was too young, leaving the cancer to spread silently through her body. She was struggling to get out of bed, had constant pain and had seen blood in her stool, but over the next several…