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Dhakshineshwar Suresh (File Photo) NEW DELHI: Dhakshineswar Suresh served a staggering 17 aces to pick up his first win on the ATP Tour, defeating World No. 77 Marcos Giron in straight sets at the Winston-Salem Open. Suresh, ranked 394th in the world, won 6-3, 7-5 in just over an hour.The 26-year-old is the second Indian to win a main draw match at the ATP 250 level event after Prajnesh Gunneswaran in 2019. It is also the first time an Indian singles player has won a first round match at the ATP Tour level since Sumit Nagal beat Lukas Klein in…

Representative Image (AI-generated) Mount St. Helens is one of the most closely studied volcanoes in the United States, but scientists still cannot directly see the complex system of magma and rock hidden beneath it. In 2014, researchers launched an ambitious experiment to change that. According to the Imaging Magma Under St. Helens (iMUSH) project, a field team used 23 controlled explosions and a remarkably dense network of seismic instruments to send waves through the ground and map what lay beneath the volcano. The results, combined with later seismic studies, helped identify an upper-crustal magma-storage zone roughly 4 to 15 kilometres…

Bengaluru techie gets a reality check about his money management (AI generated image) There is a particular kind of financial confidence that comes with a healthy salary slip, a gated society address and a Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) that grows every month without fail. It looks like security. It rarely is.A Bengaluru techie earning ₹1.8 lakh a month found this out on a random Tuesday two years ago, not through a market crash or a job loss, but through an ICU admission.The night the numbers stopped adding upIn a Reddit post titled “I was living like a fake rich techie…

Remember CATS, the early-2000s television series featuring Nafisa Joseph, Kuljeet Randhawa and Malini Sharma? While Joseph and Randhawa tragically died by suicide, Sharma gradually distanced herself from the entertainment industry. Today, she leads a life that looks very different from her Bollywood days — surrounded by farms, trees, homegrown produce and guests at her property in the Sahyadri Hills.Sharma first became familiar to audiences as a model, featuring in the Bombay Vikings music video “Kya Soorat Hai”, which went on to become hugely popular. She later appeared in Mika Singh’s “Saawan Mein Lag Gayi Aag”, another much-loved music video from…

In 1993, Princess Diana put something deeply disturbing in writing.Ten months after her separation from Prince Charles was announced, Diana wrote a handwritten note to her then-butler, Paul Burrell, in which she claimed that her estranged husband was planning an “accident” involving her car.The letter later became part of the evidence examined during the inquest into Diana’s death.What did Diana write?In the note, dated October 1993, Diana described that period of her life as the “most dangerous” and said she was longing for someone to comfort her.She then made the startling claim that her husband was planning an accident involving…

Zeeshan Ansari bowls during India A vs Sri Lanka A match at Galle (Photo Courtesy: Sri Lanka Cricket) NEW DELHI: Zeeshan Ansari went six years in cricket’s red-ball wilderness. After playing for Uttar Pradesh against Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy in January 2020, the legspinner admitted that he found it difficult to bowl with the red cherry. The influx of T20 competitions had accustomed him to the white ball over the red.That time away ended when the 26-year-old earned a surprise call-up to the India A squad for the Sri Lanka tour. The comeback didn’t get a dream Bollywood-esque…

Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than three decades, a collection of animal bones from Ireland’s Ferriter’s Cove was considered some of the earliest evidence that farming had reached the island. But new research has now overturned that interpretation. According to University College Dublin (UCD), bones once identified as cattle have instead been identified as belonging to a bear and wild boar. The finding challenges a long-standing understanding of Ireland’s transition from hunter-gatherer societies to farming communities. It also highlights how modern scientific techniques can reveal new information from archaeological remains that were excavated and studied decades ago.The mystery of the…

IIT Guwahati develops new technology that removes arsenic and fluoride from groundwater within minutes Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati have developed a new water-treatment technology that can remove two major groundwater contaminants — arsenic and fluoride — simultaneously within minutes. The low-cost system could eventually help communities in areas where groundwater contamination makes access to safe drinking water difficult.The researchers have developed a rotating-anode electrocoagulation (RA-EC) reactor that achieved up to 98.2% removal of arsenate and 91.8% removal of fluoride during their experiments. According to IIT Guwahati, the estimated operating cost was between Rs 18 and Rs…

Kriti Sanon’s Raksha Bandhan ad row grows as Suzanne Bernert reacts (Image Credits Instagram) Kriti Sanon’s latest Raksha Bandhan advertisement has sparked a debate on social media, with viewers divided over its styling and creative treatment of the festival. Actress Suzanne Bernert has now publicly criticised the campaign, arguing that the advertisement does not capture the sentiment associated with Raksha Bandhan. Suzanne’s comments became more pointed after a user responded to her post. Addressing the broader conversation around fashion, choice and women’s empowerment, the actress criticised what she described as the presentation of revealing clothing as a symbol of empowerment.The…

AI generated image via Canva The sun’s scorching heat often transforms the roads and pavements into no less than a brick kiln, and to tackle this extreme heat, some researchers have taken on a novel approach.In some parts of Philadelphia, streets can reach temperatures as high as nearly 30°F hotter than in others, mostly because of dark asphalt, dense buildings, and a lack of trees or green cover.It’s a problem cities everywhere are grappling with as summers get longer and more intense, and few solutions are as simple, or as visible, as changing the colour of the road itself!That’s exactly…