The U.S. private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report. The data reflects a sudden shift in hiring patterns, with losses concentrated in professional and business services, education, and health services.For students and recent graduates preparing to enter the job market, the timing couldn’t be more challenging. Sectors…
Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill NEW DELHI: India’s vice-captain and wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has confirmed a key change in the team’s batting order ahead of the first Test against England at Headingley, Leeds, starting Friday, June 20. Speaking to the media on Wednesday, Pant disclosed that skipper Shubman Gill will bat at No.4 in the…
Ukraine’s secret services executed a complex and highly covert operation on Sunday, damaging 41 Russian warplanes at multiple airbases deep inside Russian territory. Using an inventive method to bypass distance limitations, Ukrainian operatives concealed explosive-laden drones inside the roofs of wooden sheds, which were then transported on trucks to the perimeters of targeted airfields. Once…
Fossils found in southern New Zealand have brought to light a massive prehistoric penguin species unlike any living today. In a comprehensive analysis by University of Cambridge researchers, scientists identified Kumimanu fordycei which is a giant penguin that lived along the coastline during the Paleocene epoch around 57 million years ago. Weighing roughly 350 pounds…
Sarfaraz Khan with his brothers Musheer Khan (extreme left) and Moin Khan (extreme right) and father Naushad Khan. Mumbai: One of the criticisms against Sarfaraz Khan has always been that he has been too overweight — many have termed him as ‘fat’ and hence unfit to play top-level cricket, even though legendary opener Sunil Gavaskar…
Black holes have always been the cosmos’ biggest mystery—gigantic cosmic vacuum cleaners that gobble up everything, including light itself. But what exactly lies in wait inside such mind-bending voids? Scientists with state-of-the-art quantum computing might just have figured it out, and the results are nothing short of mind-blowing. Ditch science fiction speculations of wormholes and…
NEW DELHI: Genetics may be contributing towards how one perceives the taste of coffee — ‘bitter’ or ‘not bitter’, according to a study. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have identified a new group of bitter compounds in roasted Arabica coffee and analysed how they influence its taste. They also demonstrated for the…
Image source: LiveScience Around 24 million years ago, a pint-sized penguin waddled, swam, and dove along the coasts of southern New Zealand, and today, its fossilised remains are proving pivotal in unlocking the mysteries of penguin evolution. Recently identified as Pakudyptes hakataramea, this tiny penguin, standing just a foot tall, is shedding light on how…