Month: July 2026

No decision to increase ethanol blending with petrol beyond 20%: Petroleum MoS

July 21, 2026 admin

Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Notwithstanding a series of measures taken in the recent past to popularise bio-fuel blending, the government informed on Monday (July 20, 2026) that no decision has been taken to increase the blending quantum of ethanol with petrol beyond the present 20%. It further…

Business

Parts of Assam were once under sea: Study

July 21, 2026 admin

Photomicrographs of studied limestones in Dillai Parbat. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement GUWAHATI A significant swathe of present-day Assam was once under a warm, shallow tropical sea rich in microscopic marine life, a new study has revealed. Two researchers from Nagaland University carried out a geological investigation of the Sylhet Limestone deposits in Karbi Anglong…

Science

India’s rarest heron faces a silent end as new dam ignores its home

July 21, 2026 admin

The white-bellied heron (Ardea insignis)is among the world’s most elusive birds, nesting along fast-flowing rivers lined with old growth forests. “India has a population of six to nine individuals distributed in three rivers: Noa-Dehing River, Lahm River and Lohit River,” Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, project manager Yumlam Benjamin Bida…

Science

Adult unmarried daughter can claim financial support for education from father under DV Act: Karnataka High Court

July 21, 2026 admin

A view of the High Court of Karnataka. | Photo Credit: File photo Observing that an adult unmarried daughter is entitled to invoke Section 20(d) of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, to seek monetary relief from her father for pursuing postgraduation amid her parents’ strained domestic relationship, the Karnataka High Court…

Nation

FIFA World Cup 2026 | Messi leaves the World Cup as its most enduring presence

July 21, 2026 admin

Legendary status: No one can take away the imprint Messi has left on this tournament. | Photo Credit: Getty Images For 120 minutes, Spain did what no other team at this World Cup had managed. It found a way to keep Lionel Messi quiet. The plan was simple in theory but brutally difficult in practice. Every…

Sports

Dream voyage ends in tragedy for Keralite as missile strike kills merchant navy officer weeks after wedding plans

July 21, 2026 admin

Just 40 days after returning to sea with dreams of coming home next April to marry his fiancée, 26-year-old merchant navy officer Akhil Joyan from Kerala was killed in an alleged Russian missile strike on the cargo vessel MV Golden Leo near Ukraine’s Odessa port, shattering the aspirations of a family that had invested everything…

World

China summons Philippine Ambassador over South China Sea encounter

July 21, 2026 admin

Chinese Coast Guard and Philippine Navy vessels during an encounter at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China. | Photo Credit: Reuters Beijing said it summoned the Philippine Ambassador to China on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) over an encounter a day earlier between the ‌two countries in the Second Thomas Shoal, according to a statement…

World

ASEAN’s top diplomats meet in shadow of U.S.-Iran conflict

July 21, 2026 admin

ASEAN Foreign Ministers at the opening ceremony of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at the Philippine International Convention Centre on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Pasay city, Philippines. | Photo Credit: AP Tensions between the U.S. and Iran ⁠are likely to cast a shadow over a diplomatic gathering in Southeast Asia this week, injecting additional…

World

July 21, 1993 Kolkata police firing: What does the Commission of Inquiry report reveal? | Explained

July 21, 2026 admin

Former West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee at the party’s Martyrs’ Day rally, organised to commemorate the death of thirteen party workers in police firing in 1993 at a protest rally, in Kolkata. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The story so far: A day before the multiple rallies were held…

Nation

India name 20-member squad for Hockey World Cup, Harmanpreet Singh to lead

July 21, 2026 admin

India on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) named a 20-member squad for next month’s FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup, with four players from the side who featured in the European leg of the Pro League missing out owing to the tournament’s squad-size limit. Defender Amandeep Lakra, midfielders Raj Kumar Pal and Rabichandra Singh Moirangthem, and forward…

Sports