AFP Munitions are buried beneath Lake Brienz in the Swiss Alps Tourists enjoying the picture postcard views of Lakes Lucerne, Thun or Lake Neuchatel might be surprised to learn what lies beneath those pristine alpine waters. For years the Swiss military used the lakes as dumping grounds for old munition, believing it could be disposed … Read more
Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar has ruled out the possibility of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah resigning amid demands for his resignation due to the governor’s permission for prosecution in the alleged MUDA scam and said that the Congress party and government solidly stood behind the Chief Minister. “There is a conspiracy to misuse Governor’s … Read more
An otherwise inconsequential incident in Chelsea’s final pre-season friendly against Inter last Sunday gave Enzo Maresca hope that what may appear like a random collection of 43 footballers are developing into a team. Levi Colwill was kicked and wrestled to the ground by Inter’s veteran centre-back Francesco Acerbi and all hell broke loose, with most … Read more
“We’re taking things from the people of the future now,” Mary Heath says from the kitchen where she’s drying seeds to plant. The climate activist is talking about Earth Overshoot Day, the ominous annual milestone that marks when humanity has consumed more from the Earth than the Earth can replenish in a year. Globally, the … Read more
Will it be Vinesh Phogat vs Saina Nehwal in the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections? This possibility cannot be denied given the Congress stand as well as former badminton champion and Bharatiya Janata Party member Nehwal’s statements following Phogat’s disqualification from the final wrestling bout at the Paris Olympics. As soon as news about Phogat’s disqualification … Read more
“We want to move to a new system that people have confidence in and can comply with,” the Premier League’s chief executive, Richard Masters, said this past week, “and move away perhaps from normalising asterisks against league tables or long-running regulatory cases.” That is surely right. That doesn’t mean a free-for-all or a return to the … Read more
Talk about being in a pressure-cooker-like environment. That is precisely where Bandaru Satyananda Rao, the victorious Telugu Desam candidate from Kothapeta Assembly constituency in Dr Ambedkar Konaseema district, finds himself in. Having promised that he would give every woman voter in the constituency a pressure cooker if elected, Satyananda Rao, after his win, is now … Read more
Walking around Edinburgh this month, you might have noticed the unusual number of standup comedians performing their shows outdoors. These natural basement-dwellers have been flushed out of their venues by various fire alarms and outages, including a city-wide power cut that caused the partial deflation of the giant purple cow inflatable in George Square. Oh, … Read more
There is a rising risk of “full-scale regional war” in the Middle East, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, has warned, amid frantic international efforts to calm tensions with Iran and reach a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. With the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, flying into Israel this weekend to push for a … Read more
The Basalt SUV Coupe is the French carmaker’s fifth product for the fiercely competitive car market in India. The automaker has been under pressure over the past five years in the country, struggling to sell its cars primarily due to poor product planning and pricing too. The SUV Coupe style combines a coupe-like low, rounded … Read more