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Homestead Metro Park in Hilliard, Ohio, is set for a dramatic expansion, with 333 acres of conservation land being added to the 43-acre park, according to the City of Hilliard and Columbus & Franklin County Metro Parks. Columbus Business First also reported on the land transfer, which involves the city and homebuilder M/I Homes. Once…

Nepal now hopes to seek around $20 million (£15 million) from UN Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage. Human-caused climate change likely helped destabilise rock-and-ice slope whose collapse triggered the Aug 26 Nepal-Tibet disaster, first scientific assessment of the deadly event released Thursday found, linking decades of warming to thinning glaciers, thawing permafrost and…

Nihal Sarin (on right) saves India’s day at Round 2 of Chess Olympiad (Photo by Rafal Oleksiewicz for FIDE) NEW DELHI: The current world champion, Dommaraju Gukesh, was on Board 1 facing all the top-rated opponents during India’s gold-clinching campaign in Budapest at the 2024 Chess Olympiad. Besides the team, Gukesh won an individual gold…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will overhaul its regulatory framework for data centres and halt public disclosure of their physical locations to shield them from military threats, according to comments reported by The Next Web of a session from Salesforce’s annual event Dreamforce 2026. Speaking alongside Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce conference in…

SC last week asked govt to reconsider its decision not to reduce the cut-off percentile NEW DELHI: Nudged by Supreme Court to reduce the cut-off percentile for admission to super specialty medical courses to fill around 2,000 vacant seats, Centre Thursday told the court that the qualifying percentile for NEET-SS may go from the existing…

For patients, this could mean an additional safeguard against medicines sold without prescriptions or accessed via illegal channels. NEW DELHI: Buying prescription medicines from a medical store could soon be recorded on CCTV, with the footage required to be kept for at least three months, under a draft amendment to the Drugs Rules, 1945, proposed…

Provisional data compiled by Petroleum Planning & Analysis Cell showed that India imported 19 million tonnes (MT) of crude in Aug(Representative Image) NEW DELHI: India’s crude oil imports fell 3% in Aug from a year earlier while the import bill increased by over 18%, as renewed hostilities in West Asia disrupted energy supplies.Provisional data compiled…

Smoke rises after an F-16 fighter jet crashed in a rural area near Traverse City (AP photo) An F-16 fighter jet from Texas crashed in rural Michigan on Thursday during a routine training exercise, with the pilot ejecting safely before being taken to a local hospital, a military spokesman said.The aircraft was taking part in…

Local residents gather at a mobile polling station during early voting in Russia’s parliamentary election Russians began voting on Friday in a three-day parliamentary election that will determine all 450 seats in the State Duma (lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia), the first such election since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine…

An Army-CRPF-J&K police team launched the operation in Brattal bordering Kathua district JAMMU: Two Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists were shot dead and a suspected overground worker was detained Thursday after security forces tracked down a hideout in rain-soaked forests of Udhampur district in J&K’s Jammu division, seizing assault rifles, a pistol and grenades.An Army-CRPF-J&K police team launched…