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A woman prepares ice apples to eat at a road stall in Myanmar, 2019. | Photo Credit: Etan J. Tal (CC BY-SA) Come the summer months, April through August, and the fruit market across India is replete with the fruit ice apple, called ‘nungu’ in Tamil, ‘munjulu’ in Telugu, ‘tadgola’ in Hindi, and ‘taal’ in…
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Workers carry out maintenance on railway tracks at a station yard. File | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri Ahead of the restructuring of the regional rail network, Waltair Division Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Lalit Bohra, with the DRM of the newly formed Rayagada Division, Amitabh Singhal, conducted a joint inspection of the Rayagada Control Office on…
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Chief Minister and TDP national president N. Chandrababu Naidu addressing the inaugural session of the Mahanadu annual conclave near Mangalagiri on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Telugu Desam Party (TDP) national president and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu said people could not afford to have the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) back in the saddle…
A walk on a road in any Indian city is incomplete without one stepping in or passing by a mound of garbage. Entitled citizens treating city roads as an open trash bin are unfortunately more common than one would like but one person in Bengaluru hopes to change this. Jyothish VM | Photo Credit: Special…
Veteran sports administrator Randhir Singh passed away in New Delhi on May 27, 2026, due to age-related ailments. File | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Veteran sports administrator and India’s first shooting gold-medallist in the Asian Games, Randhir Singh, passed away in New Delhi on Wednesday (May 27, 2026) after battling age-related ailments. He was…
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Protests outside the residence of Opposition Leader and former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in Thiruvananthapuram against the ED raids on Wednesday (May 27, 2026). | Photo Credit: Nirmal Harindran Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] workers came out on the streets across Kerala on Wednesday (May 27, 2026) to protest against the Directorate of…
Supreme Court sets aside NCLAT’s June 2022 order which rejected Amazon’s appeal. File | Photo Credit: S. Subramanium The Supreme Court on Wednesday (May 27, 2026) set aside the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s (NCLAT’s) June 2022 order, which had rejected U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon’s appeal against an anti-trust suspension of its investment deal with…
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks with the media at the UN headquarters in New York City, U.S. on May 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters China has said it supports the “active mediation” by Pakistan and other countries between the U.S. and Iran in the ongoing West Asia conflict. “Regarding the current situation, the…
When Nature in Focus (NIF) first introduced its annual photography contest back in 2015, the intent was simple — to recognise the skill and hard work of wildlife photographers across India. “Recognition is important,” believes Rohit Varma, the co-founder of this Bengaluru-based platform for natural history storytellers. He says that he also wanted these images…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s doctor is expected to release a summary of the medical exam in coming days, although the amount of detail released is entirely at the White House’s discretion. | Photo Credit: Reuters Donald Trump said an annual medical checkup had gone “perfectly” on Tuesday (May 26, 2026), as the health of the…
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