Solar Eclipse 2025 date: When exactly is Surya Grahan on 20th, 21st or 23rd September?On September 21, 2025, a partial solar eclipse will grace the skies, coinciding with the September equinox. This celestial event will be pr...
14 Sep, 2025, 04.53 PM IST
Severe thunderstorm watch issued for 11 states; one of season’s broadest, sweeping Northeast and Mid-Atlantic until 8 pm SaturdayThe National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch 607 until 8:00 p.m. EDT, impacting eleven states across the Northeast a...
07 Sep, 2025, 12.41 AM IST
A tiny Australian outpost gets a steep Trump tariff despite few exportsRichard Cottle, a concrete-mixing business owner on Norfolk Island, is baffled by a 29% U.S. tariff since the island has minimal exports. N...
04 Apr, 2025, 06.58 PM IST
'We are scratching our heads': Trump imposes 29% tariff on tiny, remote Australian island with barely any exportsUS President Donald Trump did not even spare tiny, remote Australian island from his sweeping tariff. Trump has imposed a 29 percent tariff...
04 Apr, 2025, 06.57 PM IST
Trump tariff on India back to 26% from 27% in revised White House documentThe Trump administration revised reciprocal tariff rates for 14 countries, including India, lowering India's rate from 27% to 26%. South Ko...
04 Apr, 2025, 10.17 AM IST
Is Trump slapping taxes on penguins too? Netizens react as tariff list includes islands with no humansPresident Donald Trump's latest wave of import tariffs includes remote and uninhabited places like Heard and McDonald Islands. These island...
03 Apr, 2025, 08.38 PM IST
More than 20% of Earth's plant species found only on islands and time is running out to save themA study in Nature reveals that islands, covering just 5.3% of the planet's land, harbor 21% of the world's plant biodiversity. Urgent conse...
19 Oct, 2024, 08.50 AM IST
Indian warship provides assistance to merchant vessel in Gulf of AdenAn Indian warship provided critical assistance to the Palau-flagged vessel MV Islander after it caught fire following a suspected drone or ...
24 Feb, 2024, 02.11 PM IST
Indian Navy swings into action after merchant vessel comes under drone attack in Gulf of AdenIndia's navy responded to a distress call from a Marshall Islands-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Aden, rescuing 22 crew members, including n...
18 Jan, 2024, 02.45 PM IST
Cosmetic surgery gone wrong as British woman dies in MajorcaA cosmetic surgery has claimed the life of a British woman on the island of Majorca. In mid-September, the unidentified woman underwent the...
28 Sep, 2023, 07.17 PM IST
New Zealand city grinds to halt as deluge from cyclone loomsThe cyclone, which was lying just to the northeast of the country and moving south, dumped more than 220 millimetres (9 inches) of rain in ...
13 Feb, 2023, 07.09 AM IST
U.S. Navy plane crashes along Eastern shore of Virginia; 1 crew member killed, 2 injuredA U.S. Navy plane crashed in the waters along the Eastern shores of Virginia. Three people were on board, one crew member was killed, and t...
31 Mar, 2022, 08.46 PM IST
- Lost 'Zealandia' under Pacific close to recognition as continent
Wellington, Feb 17 (IANS) Zealandia -- a lost continent submerged in the southwest Pacific -- is a step closer to being recognised, the aut...
19 Feb, 2017, 12.54 AM IST
England tops Commonwealth Games medal tally after 28 yearsEngland started the day already assured of top spot in the medals table for the first time since 1986, dethroning Australia.
04 Aug, 2014, 07.35 AM IST
36 countries send less than 50 tourists to IndiaIt might be tough for an Indian to locate Wallis Futuna Island (South Pacific), Micronesia (set of thousand islands in the western Pacific ...
01 Jul, 2013, 06.00 AM IST
Indian-origin boy, Sathwik Karnik, wins National Geographic Bee contestTo clinch this title, Karnik, 12, correctly named Chimborazo as the mountain in Ecuador that represents the farthest point from the Earth's...
23 May, 2013, 11.03 AM IST
- Australia may gain rich undersea gas, oil deposits
Australia may have gained rich undersea gas and oil deposits when the UN granted it huge swathes of territory this week but reaching them r...
22 Apr, 2008, 02.29 PM IST