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Gwalior: A social media stunt to express love proved costly after a Gwalior man’s car was covered with 3,400 lipstick marks by his girlfriend, prompting the police to impose a fine of Rs 5,500 on him and order him to remove the marks. The car...

New Delhi: The next space exploration phase will deepen India’s role in human spaceflight, planetary exploration and advanced space technology as these efforts will support India’s ambition to become a leading global space power, according to the government. An official fact sheet states that India...

New Delhi: The moon is set to take centre stage this week as Earth's shadow sweeps across its surface in a near-total lunar eclipse visible from large parts of the world. Nearly 96% of the moon's surface will be covered by Earth's shadow Thursday night...

New Delhi: Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi used the phrase “dimagi Naxals” in his Independence Day address, a satirical Instagram page has emerged as an unlikely internet sensation, attracting more than 600,000 followers within days of its launch. Calling itself the Dimagi Naxal Party,...

New Delhi: A new mechanism designed to make stock closing price mechanism more transparent has itself become the centre of a market-manipulation case, with SEBI alleging that aggressive orders in Sensex constituents were used to influence the index's closing level and generate gains in expiry-day...

New Delhi: A collection of 688 autographed reflections by Mahatma Gandhi on truth, ahimsa, and service, among other subjects, to his close associate and freedom fighter Anand T Hingorani was sold for Rs 16.20 crore at a Saffronart auction, setting the world record for an...

Remember back in 2015 when everyone suddenly owned a colouring book? Those books promising instant stress relief dominated bestseller lists. Today, drawing is having a similar moment. TikTok and Instagram are filled with videos under hashtags like “doo dling”, “sensory drawing” and “art therapy”, The...

By Arindam Ganguly, OP Bhubaneswar: Odisha may have managed to keep its wild elephant population broadly stable for decades, but a more difficult conservation question is now staring the state in the face; does Odisha still have enough healthy, connected habitat to accommodate its elephants?...

Bhubaneswar: The Red kangaroo, Australia’s largest and one of its most iconic marsupials, is set to become the latest attraction at Nandankanan Zoological Park (NZP), with the species expected to arrive at the zoo soon, a zoo official said Friday. Known for its powerful leaps...

Cape Canaveral: A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers undoubtedly slammed into the moon as predicted Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported. Although the 5,400-mph (8,700-kph) collision had yet to be officially confirmed, space tracking experts said...