Unexpected but true: Mumbai’s elite have a new passion, and it’s called mahjong! Living rooms and club lounges from Chembur to Churchgate echo with the clack-clack-clack of 144 tiles shuffling – a sound that has decisively dethroned the genteel clinking of silver tea services and the buzz of kitty parties. Forget idle gossip or the…
BCCI Chief Selector Ajit Agarkar on day two of the Duleep Trophy 2025 first semifinal cricket match between South Zone and North Zone, at BCCI Centre of Excellence ground, in Bengaluru, Karnataka. (PTI) NEW DELHI: The buzz around team selection is always intense. Who will make the cut? Who should be included or left out?…
United States President Donald Trump has stirred controversy with a fiery social media post backing actor Sydney Sweeney amid backlash over her American Eagle jeans campaign and taking a swipe at pop icon Taylor Swift, declaring she is “no longer hot”. Trump’s remarks, posted on Truth Social, praised Sweeney’s ‘HOTTEST’ ad and denounced Swift and…
Advocating for the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’, Trump said that till last year, the US was a ‘dead’ nation. (AI image) US President Donald Trump has said that his ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ will make sure that America makes a ‘fortune this year’. The US Senate, under Republican control, narrowly passed President Trump’s extensive ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’…
Wimbledon is bracing for its hottest start in 147 years, with temperatures on Monday, June 30, expected to surge between 32 degrees Celsius and 36 degrees Celsius. This will surpass the tournament’s previous opening day high of 29.3 degrees Celsius, recorded in 2001. Forecasters warn that the mercury could even match or exceed Wimbledon’s all-time…
With the addition of 2024, yet another record-hot year, the past 10 years have been the 10 hottest in nearly 200 years of record-keeping, the World Meteorological Organization reports. “That’s never happened before,” said Chris Hewitt, the director of the W.M.O.’s climate services division. It marks the first time since record keeping began that all…
Even as much of the United States shivered under frigid conditions last month, the planet as a whole had its warmest January on record, scientists said on Thursday. The warmth came as something of a surprise to climate researchers. It occurred during La Niña conditions in the Pacific Ocean, which tend to lower the globe’s…
When Joe Kudla talks about the Vuori customer — the loyal, die-hard consumer of the company he founded a decade ago — Jimmy Spencer is exactly the kind of person he has in mind. “Oh, I’m Mr. Vuori,” said Mr. Spencer, 41, a Californian who works in sports media and bought his first Vuori T-shirt…
: 2024 was by far the warmest year on record in the country since 1901, IMD said Wednesday. It also noted that the last three months of the year (Oct-Dec) together were the warmest on record whereas Oct 2024, individually, was the warmest month in 123 years.With an annual mean temperature of 25.75 degrees Celsius,…
Taiwan said Tuesday that this year was the hottest since records began 127 years ago, echoing unprecedented temperature highs felt around the world.Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat globally in 2024, fuelling natural disasters that caused billions of dollars worth of damage. As of Sunday, the annual average temperature in…