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DESCRIPTIVE WORDS FOR WINTER
Word of the Day: ChionophileA chionophile is someone who loves cold weather, snow, and icy environments, embracing the chill and all it offers. Originating from ancien...
Word of The Day: SelenophileDiscover the 'selenophile,' an individual captivated by the moon's ethereal beauty and tranquil glow. This term, rooted in Greek, describes...
Word of the Day: CrepitantAs today’s Word of the Day demonstrates, even the most subtle auditory experiences can be captured through carefully chosen vocabulary.
Word of the day: Diaphanous — meaning and how to use “diaphanous” like a proWord of the day: Diaphanous means light, delicate, and almost transparent. It often describes sheer fabric, soft light, or thin mist. The w...
Word of the Day: BrumalBrumal, an adjective derived from the Latin for winter, describes wintry conditions like cold, short days, and frost. Primarily found in li...
Greenland isn’t green at all — so how did the world’s iciest island get its name?Greenland's name, a clever marketing ploy by Erik the Red around 1000 AD to attract settlers, is a stark contrast to its icy reality. While...
Trump, pressing ahead on Ukraine-Russia talks, confronts difficult realitiesRussian opposition to European troops in Ukraine and security guarantees for Kyiv complicates peace talks. Presidents Trump and Zelenskyy m...
What's missing from your favourite chocolate bar? It may be chocolate.Rising cocoa prices, driven by climate change and other factors, have led candy companies to reformulate their products. This involves repl...
In Xi Jinping's China, politics eventually catches up with everyoneThe Xi generation is risk-averse. Its members are more unhappy about their government, but are unwilling to resist. Hessler assigned "Anima...
Goodwill tries to figure out online commerceGoodwill, the nonprofit retailer, is expanding its e-commerce presence to generate more revenue and support its mission of providing job op...
Despite cheating fears, schools repeal ChatGPT bansTech giants and billionaires promised that the AI tools would revolutionize learning. Critics warned the bots would be more likely to under...
From Renaissance art to couture, Paris Fashion Week highlights vibrant trends for fall-winter 2023-2024Ties and knots created dynamic but gentle ruching in fabrics, alongside oversize red sweater-skirts that sported another skirt nonchalantly...
Olivia Harrison talks of life, death through poetry in new book, opens up about late husband George of The BeatlesTwenty poems for 20 years, a number that's not a coincidence.
Two pandemics clash as doctors find that Covid spurs diabetesThe data was published last month in Nature, three weeks after a study of almost 50,000 hospitalized Covid patients in England found that t...
View: Thanks to China, GoI must look at the defence budget as a wider security budgetIn sum, the new China threat must prompt GoI to look at the defence budget as a wider security budget, not just a ledger on military expend...
Indian traveller’s bag and baggage: The evolution of the quirky touristIndians have so many concerns when it comes to travelling and, yet, as the soaring numbers for outbound tourism shows, they never seem to s...
Amrita Sher-Gil: An insight into her life and workDwelling into her life and work, art historian Yashodhara Dalmia paints the portrait of the young artist in her book "Amrita Sher-Gil: Art ...
Funda ya Anda?Funda stands for something cool and awesome. Ditto for gyan: This word has one the most impressive of pedigrees in the Indian philosophical...
- Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’
The government said it would confer constitutional status on the proposed Lokpal , embracing the idea mooted by Rahul Gandhi.
- Pretty Hobart city in Tasmania
Preeti Verma Lal never imagined that she would find hints of India even in remote but picturesque Hobart, the major city in Tasmania.