Nighttime provides ideal cover for acts of sabotage in the sleepy fishing villages along the southern shores of Nova Scotia. Slashed buoys, stolen lobster crates, mysterious fires. These are just some of the acts of vandalism on the wharves where lobster fishers have been locked in battle for more than three decades. Lobstermen have a…
TikTok said late Friday that its service would “go dark” for its 170 million American users on Sunday in the face of a federal ban over fears that its Chinese ownership poses a threat to the United States’ national security. The company said in a statement posted to its website and on X that “unfortunately…
TikTok warned late Friday it will go dark in the United States on Sunday unless President Joe Biden’s administration provides assurances to companies like Apple and Google that it will not face enforcement actions when a ban takes effect. The statement came hours after the Supreme Court upheld a law banning TikTok in the United…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah said on Saturday that dark web, cryptocurrency, online marketplace and drones continue to be a challenge for the country and these have to be checked by strict measures. Chairing a regional conference on ‘Drug Trafficking and National Security’ here, Shah also asserted that the country will not allow…
BAREILLY: For more than 3 weeks, over 5,000 residents of Soraha in UP’s Budaun district have been in darkness in severe winter cold, thanks to the theft of a 250kVA transformer that supplied power to the village. The theft came to light on December 14, when villagers, on their routine walks, found the transformer missing….
NEW DELHI: “They still have the hunger and passion,” Team India head coach Gautam Gambhir replied when asked about the future of India captain Rohit Sharma and talismanic Virat Kohli, who both endured horrible runs in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.However, the clamour for both Rohit and Kohli to pass the baton on to the next generation…
Top US intelligence officials reportedly “silenced” researchers from the Department of Defense and FBI who uncovered strong evidence pointing to a lab leak as the origin of COVID-19, The New York Post has reported. As part of a report on COVID’s origins delivered to President Biden in August 2021, evidence supporting the lab leak theory…
BENGALURU: The e-commerce landscape in India is witnessing a convergence where quick commerce delivery services meet online retailers in their distinct ways. Major players such as Flipkart and Amazon ventured into 10-minute deliveries via small-format dark stores. At the same time, rapid-delivery specialists Swiggy, Blinkit, and Zepto are enlarging their warehouses to stock larger products,…
NASA scientists are closely studying a new class of celestial objects known as “dark comets”, the little-known celestial objects which have been challenging the human understanding of both comets and asteroids. Dark comets are not like typical comets, which are icy bodies that form glowing tails when they approach the Sun. Rather, dark comets behave…
NASA has revealed the discovery of seven additional “dark comets,” doubling the known total to 14. These enigmatic objects, which blur the line between asteroids and comets, challenge long-held assumptions about near-Earth objects (NEOs) and may hold clues to the origins of Earth’s water and life. NASA discovers seven new dark comets A new study…