Centuries-old customs and Taliban-imposed gender restrictions are compounding the tragedy for Afghan women following the recent deadly earthquake, which killed at least 2,200 people and reduced scores of buildings to rubble. Women have often been the last to be rescued, or not rescued at all, due to ‘no skin contact with unrelated males’ rule that…
TOI correspondent from US: The Trump administration on Monday laid out what is virtually a “you are either with us or against us” policy on India, warning New Delhi about buying Russian arms and being part of BRICS group of nations. “That’s a way to kind of get under the skin of America…That’s not really…
Companies can set such high prices because of a quirk in Medicare pricing rules, industry experts said. For the first six months of a new bandage product’s life, Medicare will set the reimbursement rate at whatever price a company chooses. After that, the agency adjusts the reimbursement to reflect the actual price paid by doctors…
Medieval scribes filled volumes called bestiaries with illustrations and descriptions of fantastic creatures. The manuscripts containing representations of these animals also depended on a menagerie of beasts: The covers of these and other volumes were fashioned from the skins of calves, goats, sheep, deer, pigs and, in some macabre instances, humans. Most of these hides…
After spending an unexpected nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams are preparing for their return to Earth. Originally scheduled for a brief eight-day mission, their stay was significantly prolonged due to technical issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, which was intended to bring them home. Now,…
With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since paleontologists uncovered the first specimen more than two centuries ago. Their skeletal anatomy is well documented, but their external appearance has largely remained a mystery. Now researchers have conducted the first detailed analysis of plesiosaur soft tissue, offering a…
Sam Konstas. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: When Sam Konstas scored a century as an unknown figure in the pink-ball warm-up game against India, little did he, or anyone else for that matter, know that he would be part of the most rip-roaring episodes of the Border Gavaskar Trophy.Interestingly, it was not the…