Bank holiday on August 19 If you are planning a bank visit on Wednesday, August 19, you may want to check your state’s holiday calendar first. Banks in Tripura will remain closed tomorrow to mar...
AISSMS College of Pharmacy earns highest ‘A’ rating nationally for five years PUNE: All India Shri Shivaji Memorial Society’s College of Pharmacy, Pune, has added another significant achievement to it...
In 1999, Al and Diane Johnson thought they had finally found the place where they could build a home and settle down. They had bought 828 acres on Texas’ Lamar Peninsula, a broad stretch of marsh, gra...
Steve Jobs poses with Lisa computer (Getty images) Before the Macintosh became one of Apple’s defining products, the company had another computer that failed in the market. In September 1989, Ap...
Former President Pratibha Patil (left) presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Nagarajan Vittal. The IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, 1960 batch. (Source: PTI/File) “Fortune favours the bold.R...
The property was built in the 1920s by wealthy heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. (Library of congress photo) Mar-a-Lago has been at the centre of headlines in recent years because it’s US Pres...
The Canterbury Acclimatisation Society liberated 40 sparrows in 1867. (Picture: Birds of the world) The house sparrow was brought to New Zealand in 1867 to help farmers deal with crop-eating insects, ...
Delhi schools are set to follow a revamped Class 9 academic structure from the 2026-27 session, making vocational education and a third language compulsory. The new framework also offers advanced-leve...
A teenager typed an insult on their phone and prepared to publish it. Before hitting send, the screen would ask if they were sure they wanted to say that to the other person. Trisha Mahajan was just 1...
T-72 tanks of the Indian Army firing during an exercise in the western sector. These tanks are now in the positive indigenisation list. (Image credit: Indian Army) In an effort to boost self reliance ...