Not every viral cleaning trick deserves a place beside the cooking stove. Do not mix household cleaning chemicals, especially products containing bleach, with other cleaners. Vinegar is acidic, while baking soda is alkaline. Mixing them creates fizzing, but much of that reaction simply neutralises the two ingredients. Using them separately is generally more useful for … Read more
Commentary Reading, as Rose Horowitch documents in a viral article, is collapsing across all age groups. Fewer parents are reading to their children, fewer children are reading for pleasure, and English teachers are assigning short passages in place of whole books. Most college students are now unable to comprehend even moderately challenging prose, such as … Read more
Pichai completed his BTech at IIT Kharagpur in 1993. He later moved to the US for higher studies. One went on to lead Google. The other chose a life of spirituality. Both were IIT graduates from the same year, but their careers took them in entirely different directions. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and ISKCON monk … Read more
Photo: Pichan M Salim/ Facebook Plant, fruit, and vegetable breeds are usually discovered after vigorous hybrid research and cross-breeding in labs, but a man from Wayanad who never pursued a formal degree in botany ended up knowing the Western Ghats’ plant life better than most people who did.He can rattle off two thousand botanical names … Read more
Opening a coconut does not require brute force. Draining it first, tapping around its natural middle seam and rotating it gradually can make the shell easier and safer to crack. Breaking a whole coconut can look like a job that needs strength, a heavy tool and a very steady hand. It actually comes down to … Read more
The inquiry hearing from Canadians injured by COVID-19 vaccines has “shattered the ceiling on silence” about the issue, while people must ensure that silence is never re-imposed, said the inquiry’s chairman, Conservative MP Dean Allison, who spearheaded the event. “This inquiry may be ending today, but our work is not. We are not done,” Allison … Read more
For Rishabh, the rumours aren’t necessarily upsetting because of what strangers think about him. What bothers him more is when those stories reach his parents. He recalled one incident that left his mother worried. Someone had sent her a photograph showing Rishabh standing beside a woman holding a baby. With no context around the picture, … Read more
Eknath was born on July 25, 1925, in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. India’s space programme has produced some of the country’s best-known scientists, but not every name associated with its early years is equally familiar. Professor Eknath Vasant Chitnis was one of those lesser-known figures whose work helped shape the foundations of Indian space research. Chitnis was … Read more
A detailed view of fuel pumps at a service station in Melbourne, Australia, on March 30, 2026. Morgan Hancock/Getty Images Australians are being warned sky-high fuel prices are here to stay as conflict in the Middle East reaches dangerous levels of escalation. With the U.S.-led war on Iran showing no sign of ending and oil … Read more
What does an ADC notice when the President is at risk? Former ADC Rishabh Sambyal explains the training To the public, an Aide-de-Camp (ADC) is often seen as the military officer walking a few steps behind the President at important ceremonies, state visits and official events. But the role goes far beyond appearances. An ADC … Read more