Flight delays, cancellations, compensation & more: Air travelers have rights during disruptions— government rules explained

The Ministry of Civil Aviation has provided for extensive rights and protections of air travelers. It gives clear guidelines on flight delays, cancellations, baggage, ticket management among other things.These provisions become significant to understand to ensure consumer rights especially after the recent flight disruption crisis. Here’s a glimpse at certain key provisions to ensure passenger…

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Plumes of smoke, planes ablaze: Iran’s Mehrabad airport on fire as Israel launches airstrike – watch

Israeli strikes hit Tehran on Saturday as the conflict between Iran, Israel and the United States intensified, with explosions reported at the capital’s Mehrabad International Airport and other parts of the city.Footage posted on social media showed strikes and large fires at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport, with eyewitnesses reporting burning planes on the tarmac after…

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Why Pica makes you crave things that aren’t even food: Early signs, causes and why it often goes undetected |

A quiet but clinically recognised eating disorder often hides in plain sight, emerging through behaviours that may seem unusual yet not immediately alarming. Pica involves the repeated consumption of non-food substances, a pattern that can develop slowly and remain unnoticed for long periods. Many individuals who experience these urges conceal them or minimise the behaviour,…

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After SC rap, NCERT ‘trying’ to retrieve sold copies of now-withdrawn class 8 textbook | India News

NEW DELHI: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Thursday moved to retrieve 38 copies of the now-withdrawn Class 8 Social Science textbook after drawing sharp criticism from the Supreme Court. A bench led by CJI Surya Kant described the content as a “deep-rooted conspiracy to defame” the judiciary.The textbook sparked a…

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Ontario moves to lift tuition freeze at public universities: Here’s what it means for students

Ontario will allow publicly funded colleges and universities to raise tuition for the first time since 2019, as part of a new funding framework aimed at stabilising the province’s higher education sector. The tuition freeze, introduced in 2019 alongside a 10% cut in fees, was intended to make higher education more affordable. Since then, institutions…

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Florida laboratory tests exposed endangered Caribbean corals to predatory bacteria; more than half showed no bleaching beyond the infection site

Representative Image (AI-generated) Coral reefs are often called the rainforests of the sea, but across the Caribbean, many of them are struggling to survive. Along with warming oceans and habitat loss, bacterial diseases have become a growing threat, capable of wiping out large sections of coral in a short time. Now, researchers in Florida have…

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