May 17, 2026
Vijay Deverakonda meets fans outside his home with wife Rashmika Mandanna on birthday; the couple’s sweet moment goes viral

Vijay Deverakonda meets fans outside his home with wife Rashmika Mandanna on birthday; the couple’s sweet moment goes viral

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Vijay Deverakonda celebrated his birthday in a grand yet heartwarming way on May 9. The actor turned 37 this year and received massive love from fans across social media. This birthday became even more special as it marked his first celebration after marrying Rashmika Mandanna. Fans gathered outside his Jubilee Hills residence from the morning…

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Scientists found something frozen inside Greenland that could rewrite climate history

Scientists found something frozen inside Greenland that could rewrite climate history

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Greenland’s ice sheet holds layered climate records stretching back thousands of years. Image Credits: Google Gemini Most people are familiar with one version of the Greenland story: ice melting, seas rising, glaciers receding in time-lapse videos that make climate change seem real and immediate. That version is real, but it’s also incomplete, because underneath all…

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Tamil Nadu power play: Will VCK join hands with Vijay’s TVK? Big decision at 4pm today

Tamil Nadu power play: Will VCK join hands with Vijay’s TVK? Big decision at 4pm today

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CHENNAI: The VCK has delayed its decision on backing actor Vijay’s TVK to form the government, with party chief Thol Thirumavalavan yet to spell out his stand despite mounting political uncertainty.Meanwhile, VCK general secretary D Ravikumar denied reports that the party had been demanding cabinet berths, calling them “contrary to truth.”While Thiruma had earlier indicated…

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AI generated image There was a time when nightfall meant relief. After the blaze of a long summer day, the hours after sunset carried the promise of a cool breeze through an open window, the temperature dropping enough to pull out a light blanket, sleep coming easy. That time, for much of the world, is quietly disappearing.Across continents and climates, nights are getting warmer, and they are doing so faster than our days. While record daytime temperatures dominate headlines and heatwave warnings flood our phones, a subtler, arguably more consequential shift is happening in the dark. Minimum temperatures which is the lowest point a thermometer reaches in a 24-hour cycle, almost always in the dead of night, are climbing at a rate that is outpacing daytime warming in many parts of the world. Scientists have been watching this asymmetry with growing unease.The consequences are not abstract. Farmers depend on cool nights to allow their crops to recover from daytime heat stress. Ecosystems run on temperature rhythms that have been calibrated over millennia. AI generated image The human body uses the nightly dip in temperature as a biological cue, to repair cells, consolidate memory, regulate hormones, and prepare for the next day. When that dip no longer comes, everything from crop yields to cardiac health begins to fray at the edges.The reasons behind warming nights are layered and multiple, a convergence of greenhouse gas accumulation, urban expansion, shifting cloud patterns, and a planet that has simply absorbed more heat than it can shed. Each factor feeds the others in ways that are still being mapped by researchers.The Urban heat island effect: How cities trap the day’s warmthStep outside in any major city at midnight in July, and you will feel it, a thick, lingering warmth that has no business being there. The sun set hours ago, yet the streets radiate heat as though the day never quite ended. This is the urban heat island effect, and it is one of the most significant, and most overlooked, drivers of warming nights.The culprit is hiding in plain sight: the city itself.Concrete, asphalt, brick, and steel are the primary building blocks of modern urban life, and they are remarkably efficient heat traps. Unlike soil or vegetation, which reflect sunlight and release moisture through evaporation, these dense materials behave like thermal sponges. They absorb solar radiation aggressively throughout the day, storing it deep within their mass, and then slowly exhale that stored heat through the night. A sun-baked road or rooftop can remain warm well past midnight, effectively turning entire city blocks into low-grade radiators.Compounding the problem is what cities lack: trees. Green cover provides shade that prevents surfaces from overheating in the first place, and through transpiration, trees release moisture that cools the surrounding air, nature’s own air conditioning. As cities have expanded, green spaces have given way to parking lots, towers, and roads, stripping away this natural buffer and leaving urban temperatures to climb unchecked.Then there is the heat that cities actively generate. Every car engine idling in traffic, every air conditioning unit pushing warm exhaust into the street, every industrial process humming through the night adds thermal energy directly into the urban atmosphere. In dense metropolitan areas, this anthropogenic heat, heat produced by human activity, can measurably raise local temperatures, particularly after dark when the natural cooling process is already being undercut by heat-saturated infrastructure.The result is a city that never truly cools down, and for the millions who live in them, increasingly, neither do they.“Night-time temperatures are rising fastest across already warm and densely populated regions such as South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and other rapidly urbanising tropical regions. The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that 2024 was the warmest year on record, at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels, with the last decade being the warmest ever. This global trend is clearly visible in India, where CEEW’s analysis shows that over 70% of districts have experienced at least five additional very warm nights each year in the last decade compared to the 1982–2011 baseline,” said Dr Vishwas Chitale, fellow, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).Greenhouse gases and the nocturnal blanket: Why the atmosphere no longer lets heat escapeThink of the atmosphere as a blanket wrapped around the Earth. During the day, sunlight passes through it and warms the ground. At night, the Earth tries to release that heat back into space, but the blanket is getting thicker, and less heat is getting out. AI generated imageThat thickening blanket is made of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor. These gases absorb the heat rising from the Earth’s surface and push it back downward, warming the lower atmosphere rather than letting it escape into space. The more of these gases there are, the more heat gets trapped, and the warmer our nights become.Since the industrial revolution, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere have climbed from 280 parts per million to over 400, driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels, and methane and nitrous oxide levels have risen sharply too. Every additional molecule of these gases adds another layer to that blanket. This matters most at night. During the day, the sun keeps temperatures up regardless. But after sunset, the Earth relies entirely on releasing heat into the atmosphere to cool down. When greenhouse gases block that release, nighttime temperatures stay elevated long after dark, and the natural cool of night never fully arrives.The numbers bear this out. Over the past 50 years, nighttime temperatures have risen roughly 40 per cent faster than daytime temperatures globally. Across the world’s land surfaces, almost twice as much area has seen stronger warming at night than during the day. It is a quiet but telling shift. The same mechanism heating our days is heating our nights, it just does its most damaging work in the dark, when the planet has no sun to blame and nowhere left to hide the heat.”Heat is no longer just about hotter afternoons—India is now seeing a combined rise in very hot days, very warm nights, and humidity, even in traditionally drier regions, making heat more continuous, more humid, and far harder for both people and infrastructure to cope with,” said Dr Chitale.Asymmetric warming: Why scientists are more alarmed by night temperatures than dayWhen climate scientists talk about global warming, the public tends to picture scorching afternoons and record-breaking summer days. But among researchers, it is the night that commands the deeper concern. Not because daytime heat is harmless, it is not, but because what happens after sunset tells a more honest story about the state of the planet.The concept is called asymmetric warming. Days and nights are not heating up at the same rate. Nighttime minimum temperatures are climbing faster than daytime maximums across most of the world’s land surface. It is a distinction that might seem technical, but to climate scientists, it bears a rather significant weight.Minimum temperatures are harder to manipulate. They are less influenced by short-term weather events, urban activity, or seasonal swings. They reflect the baseline, the floor of the climate system, and when that floor keeps rising, it signals something deep and structural is shifting.A hot day can be explained by a passing heatwave, a dry spell, or a burst of summer sun. But a hot night, and then another, and then a decade of them — that points to something the atmosphere is behaving fundamentally differently. The planet is losing less heat after dark. The insulating effect of accumulated greenhouse gases is not a daytime story; it is a round-the-clock one, and the nights are where it shows most clearly.This is why minimum temperature trends have become one of the key indicators climate researchers monitor most closely. They function like a vital sign, a pulse check on the planet’s ability to cool itself. And right now, that pulse is running warm, night after night, in ways that leave less and less room for the natural world to recover before the next day begins.About the AuthorAadrita HalderWrites on social matters, geopolitics, and trending issues for the Times of India.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosED Raids Punjab Minister Sanjeev Arora’s Premises In Fresh Money Laundering Probe | WatchTop Moments: Suvendu Adhikari Takes Oath As West Bengal’s First BJP Chief Minister | WatchBJP Ends 15-Year TMC Rule In Bengal As Suvendu Adhikari Takes Oath As Chief MinisterPM Modi Touches Feet Of 98-year-old Veteran BJP Leader Makhanlal Sarkar In KolkataPM Modi Hails Rabindranath Tagore As ‘Eternal Voice Of Indian Civilisation’ On Pochishe BoishakhLt Gen NS Raja Subramani Named India’s New Chief Of Defence Staff Amid Major Military ReformsHow Kolkata Turned Dead Space Under A Flyover Into A Sports HubDelhi High Court Protects Shashi Tharoor From AI Deepfakes Praising PakistanRahul Gandhi Says Only Congress Can Defeat BJP, Makes Explosive Claims Linking Modi To Epstein FilesChina Reveals On-Site Assistance To Pakistan During Conflict With India Last Year123PhotostoriesHantavirus is that odd infection that can make a simple fever a medical emergency, says Delhi NCR pulmonologistWhat’s it like to visit 10 most economically stable countries in the world right now? 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AI generated image There was a time when nightfall meant relief. After the blaze of a long summer day, the hours after sunset carried the promise of a cool breeze through an open window, the temperature dropping enough to pull out a light blanket, sleep coming easy. That time, for much of the world, is quietly disappearing.Across continents and climates, nights are getting warmer, and they are doing so faster than our days. While record daytime temperatures dominate headlines and heatwave warnings flood our phones, a subtler, arguably more consequential shift is happening in the dark. Minimum temperatures which is the lowest point a thermometer reaches in a 24-hour cycle, almost always in the dead of night, are climbing at a rate that is outpacing daytime warming in many parts of the world. Scientists have been watching this asymmetry with growing unease.The consequences are not abstract. Farmers depend on cool nights to allow their crops to recover from daytime heat stress. Ecosystems run on temperature rhythms that have been calibrated over millennia. AI generated image The human body uses the nightly dip in temperature as a biological cue, to repair cells, consolidate memory, regulate hormones, and prepare for the next day. When that dip no longer comes, everything from crop yields to cardiac health begins to fray at the edges.The reasons behind warming nights are layered and multiple, a convergence of greenhouse gas accumulation, urban expansion, shifting cloud patterns, and a planet that has simply absorbed more heat than it can shed. Each factor feeds the others in ways that are still being mapped by researchers.The Urban heat island effect: How cities trap the day’s warmthStep outside in any major city at midnight in July, and you will feel it, a thick, lingering warmth that has no business being there. The sun set hours ago, yet the streets radiate heat as though the day never quite ended. This is the urban heat island effect, and it is one of the most significant, and most overlooked, drivers of warming nights.The culprit is hiding in plain sight: the city itself.Concrete, asphalt, brick, and steel are the primary building blocks of modern urban life, and they are remarkably efficient heat traps. Unlike soil or vegetation, which reflect sunlight and release moisture through evaporation, these dense materials behave like thermal sponges. They absorb solar radiation aggressively throughout the day, storing it deep within their mass, and then slowly exhale that stored heat through the night. A sun-baked road or rooftop can remain warm well past midnight, effectively turning entire city blocks into low-grade radiators.Compounding the problem is what cities lack: trees. Green cover provides shade that prevents surfaces from overheating in the first place, and through transpiration, trees release moisture that cools the surrounding air, nature’s own air conditioning. As cities have expanded, green spaces have given way to parking lots, towers, and roads, stripping away this natural buffer and leaving urban temperatures to climb unchecked.Then there is the heat that cities actively generate. Every car engine idling in traffic, every air conditioning unit pushing warm exhaust into the street, every industrial process humming through the night adds thermal energy directly into the urban atmosphere. In dense metropolitan areas, this anthropogenic heat, heat produced by human activity, can measurably raise local temperatures, particularly after dark when the natural cooling process is already being undercut by heat-saturated infrastructure.The result is a city that never truly cools down, and for the millions who live in them, increasingly, neither do they.“Night-time temperatures are rising fastest across already warm and densely populated regions such as South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and other rapidly urbanising tropical regions. The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that 2024 was the warmest year on record, at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels, with the last decade being the warmest ever. This global trend is clearly visible in India, where CEEW’s analysis shows that over 70% of districts have experienced at least five additional very warm nights each year in the last decade compared to the 1982–2011 baseline,” said Dr Vishwas Chitale, fellow, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).Greenhouse gases and the nocturnal blanket: Why the atmosphere no longer lets heat escapeThink of the atmosphere as a blanket wrapped around the Earth. During the day, sunlight passes through it and warms the ground. At night, the Earth tries to release that heat back into space, but the blanket is getting thicker, and less heat is getting out. AI generated imageThat thickening blanket is made of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor. These gases absorb the heat rising from the Earth’s surface and push it back downward, warming the lower atmosphere rather than letting it escape into space. The more of these gases there are, the more heat gets trapped, and the warmer our nights become.Since the industrial revolution, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere have climbed from 280 parts per million to over 400, driven largely by the burning of fossil fuels, and methane and nitrous oxide levels have risen sharply too. Every additional molecule of these gases adds another layer to that blanket. This matters most at night. During the day, the sun keeps temperatures up regardless. But after sunset, the Earth relies entirely on releasing heat into the atmosphere to cool down. When greenhouse gases block that release, nighttime temperatures stay elevated long after dark, and the natural cool of night never fully arrives.The numbers bear this out. Over the past 50 years, nighttime temperatures have risen roughly 40 per cent faster than daytime temperatures globally. Across the world’s land surfaces, almost twice as much area has seen stronger warming at night than during the day. It is a quiet but telling shift. The same mechanism heating our days is heating our nights, it just does its most damaging work in the dark, when the planet has no sun to blame and nowhere left to hide the heat.”Heat is no longer just about hotter afternoons—India is now seeing a combined rise in very hot days, very warm nights, and humidity, even in traditionally drier regions, making heat more continuous, more humid, and far harder for both people and infrastructure to cope with,” said Dr Chitale.Asymmetric warming: Why scientists are more alarmed by night temperatures than dayWhen climate scientists talk about global warming, the public tends to picture scorching afternoons and record-breaking summer days. But among researchers, it is the night that commands the deeper concern. Not because daytime heat is harmless, it is not, but because what happens after sunset tells a more honest story about the state of the planet.The concept is called asymmetric warming. Days and nights are not heating up at the same rate. Nighttime minimum temperatures are climbing faster than daytime maximums across most of the world’s land surface. It is a distinction that might seem technical, but to climate scientists, it bears a rather significant weight.Minimum temperatures are harder to manipulate. They are less influenced by short-term weather events, urban activity, or seasonal swings. They reflect the baseline, the floor of the climate system, and when that floor keeps rising, it signals something deep and structural is shifting.A hot day can be explained by a passing heatwave, a dry spell, or a burst of summer sun. But a hot night, and then another, and then a decade of them — that points to something the atmosphere is behaving fundamentally differently. The planet is losing less heat after dark. The insulating effect of accumulated greenhouse gases is not a daytime story; it is a round-the-clock one, and the nights are where it shows most clearly.This is why minimum temperature trends have become one of the key indicators climate researchers monitor most closely. They function like a vital sign, a pulse check on the planet’s ability to cool itself. And right now, that pulse is running warm, night after night, in ways that leave less and less room for the natural world to recover before the next day begins.About the AuthorAadrita HalderWrites on social matters, geopolitics, and trending issues for the Times of India.End of ArticleFollow Us On Social MediaVideosED Raids Punjab Minister Sanjeev Arora’s Premises In Fresh Money Laundering Probe | WatchTop Moments: Suvendu Adhikari Takes Oath As West Bengal’s First BJP Chief Minister | WatchBJP Ends 15-Year TMC Rule In Bengal As Suvendu Adhikari Takes Oath As Chief MinisterPM Modi Touches Feet Of 98-year-old Veteran BJP Leader Makhanlal Sarkar In KolkataPM Modi Hails Rabindranath Tagore As ‘Eternal Voice Of Indian Civilisation’ On Pochishe BoishakhLt Gen NS Raja Subramani Named India’s New Chief Of Defence Staff Amid Major Military ReformsHow Kolkata Turned Dead Space Under A Flyover Into A Sports HubDelhi High Court Protects Shashi Tharoor From AI Deepfakes Praising PakistanRahul Gandhi Says Only Congress Can Defeat BJP, Makes Explosive Claims Linking Modi To Epstein FilesChina Reveals On-Site Assistance To Pakistan During Conflict With India Last Year123PhotostoriesHantavirus is that odd infection that can make a simple fever a medical emergency, says Delhi NCR pulmonologistWhat’s it like to visit 10 most economically stable countries in the world right now? 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There was a time when nightfall meant relief. After the blaze of a long summer day, the hours after sunset carried the promise of a cool breeze through an open window, the temperature dropping enough to pull out a light blanket, sleep coming easy. That time, for much of the world, is quietly disappearing.Across continents…

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Labour law overhaul done: Centre notifies rules for all 4 labour codes; new wage, social security norms kick in

Labour law overhaul done: Centre notifies rules for all 4 labour codes; new wage, social security norms kick in

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The Centre has completed the implementation of the four new labour codes by notifying the corresponding rules, more than five years after the reforms were first introduced to replace and consolidate 29 existing labour laws, PTI reported.The four codes — the Code on Wages, 2019; Industrial Relations Code, 2020; Code on Social Security, 2020; and…

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Is ‘Ragini 3’ cast locked? Aayush Sharma to star opposite Tamannaah Bhatia alongside Junaid Khan and Nargis Fakhri

Is ‘Ragini 3’ cast locked? Aayush Sharma to star opposite Tamannaah Bhatia alongside Junaid Khan and Nargis Fakhri

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Ektaa Kapoor’s ‘Ragini 3’ is reportedly locking its lead cast, with Aayush Sharma joining Tamannaah Bhatia, Junaid Khan, and Nargis Fakhri in the supernatural thriller. Directed by Shashanka Ghosh, the film is being described as a “date-night horror” and is expected to go on floors in July 2026. The ‘Ragini MMS’ franchise is making a…

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From dependence on imports to self-reliance – India’s defence transformation accelerates

From dependence on imports to self-reliance – India’s defence transformation accelerates

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India is accelerating a strategic shift in defence driven by policy, rising regional tensions and a global surge in military demand, which is giving an impetus to this move. As one of the largest defence spenders, India is increasingly investing in both modernisation and self-reliance.In this year’s union budget, defence capital acquisition budget stood at…

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Doctor at 71? UP man takes NEET UG 2026 exam, says it’s never too late

Doctor at 71? UP man takes NEET UG 2026 exam, says it’s never too late

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Ashok Bahar coming out of examination hall (ANI photo) The NEET UG 2026 examination saw lakhs of students appearing across the country, but one candidate from Uttar Pradesh caught everyone’s attention. Seventy-one-year-old Ashok Bahar appeared for the medical entrance exam, showing that age is not always a barrier to education.Ashok Bahar, a resident of Chandernagar…

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Salman Khan backs Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Bandar’ amid brother Abhinav Kashyap’s allegations: ‘Akele mat jaana’

Salman Khan backs Anurag Kashyap’s ‘Bandar’ amid brother Abhinav Kashyap’s allegations: ‘Akele mat jaana’

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Salman Khan has extended his support to Anurag Kashyap’s upcoming film ‘Bandar’, sharing its teaser on social media despite his bitter fallout with Anurag’s brother Abhinav Kashyap. Salman cheered for Bobby Deol and Sanya Malhotra starrer, writing, “Akele mat jaana.” The film is set to release on June 5. Salman Khan has chosen to set…

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Quote of the day by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

Quote of the day by Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

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Fyodor Dostoevsky (Image: Wikipedia) Some quotes are relevant no matter how much the world changes. One of the most powerful reflections came from the Russian novelist and philosopher Fyodor Dostoevsky, who once wrote:“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that…

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Six years after ‘public breakup’, Apple goes back to Intel due to what analysts say is a ‘supply chain problem’

Six years after ‘public breakup’, Apple goes back to Intel due to what analysts say is a ‘supply chain problem’

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Apple has reached a preliminary agreement with Intel to manufacture some chips for its devices—a deal that would end years of estrangement between the two companies and mark one of the more consequential shifts in the semiconductor industry in recent memory, the Wall Street Journal reported.The two companies have been in intensive talks for over…

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May 09, 2026, 15:02 IST

May 09, 2026, 15:02 IST

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Vinesh Phogat. (Twitter Photo) NEW DELHI: The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) on Saturday barred star wrestler Vinesh Phogat from competing in the Senior Open Ranking Series event in Gonda beginning May 10, issuing her a 15-page long show cause notice on multiple disciplinary and anti-doping related charges and effectively delaying her return to international…

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Shocking! Arjuna Awardee GM Abhijeet Gupta slams chess federation over unpaid Rs 5.5 lakh prize money

Shocking! Arjuna Awardee GM Abhijeet Gupta slams chess federation over unpaid Rs 5.5 lakh prize money

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President Pranab Mukherjee honors Abhijeet Gupta (Chess) with Arjuna Award at Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 31, 2013 (IANS Photo) NEW DELHI: Arjuna Awardee Grandmaster (GM) Abhijeet Gupta, who became the first Indian to win five Commonwealth Chess Championship titles, has sparked a massive conversation regarding the treatment of athletes in India after taking to X…

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UAE to decide on remote or in-person classes on May 10 as schools and universities remain on alert

UAE to decide on remote or in-person classes on May 10 as schools and universities remain on alert

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UAE schools remain flexible as authorities prepare major learning model decision / Image: file Students, parents and teachers across the UAE are awaiting a key announcement on May 10 that will determine whether schools and universities continue with remote learning or return fully to classrooms next week.The UAE Ministry of Education confirmed that the country’s…

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Updated: May 09, 2026, 14:56 IST

Updated: May 09, 2026, 14:56 IST

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President Pranab Mukherjee honors Abhijeet Gupta (Chess) with Arjuna Award at Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 31, 2013 (IANS Photo) NEW DELHI: Arjuna Awardee Grandmaster (GM) Abhijeet Gupta, who became the first Indian to win five Commonwealth Chess Championship titles, has sparked a massive conversation regarding the treatment of athletes in India after taking to X…

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Ashok Sharma reveals how Brett Lee and Dale Steyn inspired his ‘dream of bowling 150’ | Cricket News

Ashok Sharma reveals how Brett Lee and Dale Steyn inspired his ‘dream of bowling 150’ | Cricket News

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Ashok Sharma of Gujarat Titans (AP) Ashok Sharma has emerged as one of the most exciting fast-bowling discoveries of IPL 2026, with the young Gujarat Titans pacer turning heads through his raw pace and fearless attitude. Clocking deliveries consistently above 150 kph, the 23-year-old has rapidly become one of the tournament’s breakout stars.Sharma recently created…

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