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The anonymous drone operator shared the jaw-dropping footage on Reddit with a simple caption: «Drone pics of North Korea, I was in China, my drone flew across the border.» The images quickly went viral, sparking fascination, speculation, and even concern among viewers who questioned just how risky this stunt really was.

Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days. The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country's 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, overthrew Assad. The counteroffensive against the Assad loyalists in the largely Alawite coastal region brought havoc to several cities and towns. Rights groups reported dozens of revenge killings resulting from Sunni militants targeting the minority Islamic sect, regardless of whether they were involved in the insurgency.

office and retail spaces in Gurugram to tap demand for top-quality green commercial properties. DLF Cyber City Developers Ltd (DCCDL) is a joint venture between DLF and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC. DLF holds nearly 67 per cent stake in the JV firm. In its latest investors presentation for the third quarter of this fiscal, DLF informed that its rental arm DCCDL has commenced construction of 5.5 million (55 lakh) square feet of Grade A plus office spaces in the new phase of its ultra-premium commercial project 'DLF Downtown, Gurugram'.

Air India Express will begin flight services to Bhubaneswar from the Hindon civil terminal on March 30, making it the eighth new route to be introduced from the airport this month. The airline has already announced flights to Mumbai, Goa, Kolkata, Chennai, Jammu, and two Bengaluru services. Hindon’s civil terminal, launched in October 2019 under the Centre’s UDAN scheme, has been gradually expanding its domestic network. Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi confirmed the upcoming Bhubaneswar connection on social media. «Aviation Bonanza for #Bhubaneswar! Sincere gratitude to Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi as new flights to Ghaziabad (Hindon) and Port Blair take off shortly under the #NewDestinationPolicy—boosting tourism, trade, and seamless connectivity,» he wrote on X. Officials at Hindon are awaiting formal confirmation. «The official confirmation on Bhubaneswar from Hindon will be made in a day or two. But from March 30, the operation on the said route is most likely to start. We are working on the schedule, the announcement for which will be made shortly,» an AI Express representative said.

Congress on Sunday condemned the vandalisation of a Hindu temple in United States' California and said such acts of hatred and intolerance were utterly unacceptable. The Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) temple in California was defaced with anti-India graffiti by some unknown persons in another incident targeting the community's sacred spaces in the US. BAPS said its Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills city of San Bernardino County was desecrated. Congress' media and publicity department head Pawan Khera said, «The Indian National Congress condemns in the strongest possible terms, the vandalism of the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills, California.»

India has been on a growth curve for the last three years, overtaking the US as London's single-largest FDI source market in 2022-23 and continuing through 2023-24. «Foreign direct investment from India has been the fastest growing and has been our number one market for the last two years,» said Laura Citron, CEO of London & Partners.

France has urged the country's research institutions to consider how to welcome scientists abandoning the United States in response to President Donald Trump's policies, AFP learned on Sunday. Since Trump returned to the White House, his government has cut federal funding for life-saving research and moved to dismiss hundreds of federal workers working on health and climate. «Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,» France's minister for higher education and research Philippe Baptiste wrote in a letter to the country's institutions.

Rapido is in the midst of a 500-city expansion this year in India, a market where «vastness and depth» of mobility opportunity offers a high-growth upside, according to cofounder Pavan Guntupalli. On whether the company is eyeing an IPO in the near term, Guntupalli told PTI that Rapido is clocking healthy growth, is well capitalised and «will take a call depending on situation». The focus, for now, is on growth, he asserts. The commute app, which offers about 33 lakh rides every single day on its auto, bike taxi, and cab services expects to grow «sustainably».

Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday demanded facilities and incentives like Gujarat's GIFT City for Mumbai while accusing the BJP of systematically weakening the city's economic standing. Talking at a party event here, Thackeray alleged a deliberate erosion of Mumbai's financial importance. «Subsidies and facilities given to GIFT City should also be extended to Mumbai. The BJP is deliberately weakening Mumbai's economic backbone,» he claimed. The former state minister criticised the BJP's policies for shifting major projects and headquarters from Mumbai to Gujarat and Delhi, questioning the impact on Maharashtra's economy.

Delhi Metro is set to become the world’s longest metro network in a single city, surpassing New York’s 399-km metro system. With its current operational network spanning 394 km, the Delhi Metro will set a new global record after the inauguration of a 12-km stretch, Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal announced on Thursday.

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Ultraviolette plans to invest up to USD 100 million (nearly Rs 870 crore) in the next three to four years to fuel growth, including expansion of product portfolio, manufacturing and network, according to its founders. The company, which announced plans to bring ten new products, including scooters and long-range cruiser bikes, in the next three years, is targetting annual sales of 1 lakh units in this period, with presence not just in India but also in Europe and South East Asia, Ultraviolette CEO & Co-founder Narayan Subramaniam, and CTO & Co-founder Niraj Rajmohan told PTI. Rajmohan said the company has already made investments on R&D to build the fundamental building blocks, including charging systems, battery systems, motor control and vehicle control electronics, smart connected systems and advanced sensing systems. «We are in discussions from a larger investment point of view in the order of the USD 70-100 million that is meant to scale across product portfolio expansion, geographic expansion and growth,» he said when asked about planned future investments in the next three to four years.

NEET 2025 application on March 9. Candidates can make changes in selected fields and document uploads. The window will be open till March 11, 11:50 pm. The application process had begun on February 7 and had closed on March7, 11:50 pm. In an instance where the application is reopened, the correction window wil also be reopened. The agency has announced the NEET application correction dates in advance for the first time.

Digantara commissioned the world’s first commercial space-based space surveillance satellite, SCOT (space camera for object tracking), on Saturday. Launched aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-12 mission on January 14, SCOT aims to safeguard and manage Earth’s orbits. The satellite was successfully commissioned, achieving first light on Saturday. SCOT captured its inaugural image of the city of Buenos Aires while passing over South America. On January 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said on X, “Kudos to Indian Space startup Digantara on the success of Mission SCOT. This is an important contribution of the growing Indian Space industry towards enhancing Space situational awareness.”

commercial space surveillance satellite, capable of tracking objects as small as 5 centimetres orbiting the Earth, was commissioned on Saturday as it captured images over South America, the Bengaluru-based start-up Digantara said. Digantara had launched the space surveillance satellite SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking) on January 14 aboard SpaceX's Transporter-12 rocket. The satellite started operations on Saturday. «Space just ran out of hiding spots,» the start-up said in a post on X.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Like most states, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have diverse culinary regions. There is coastal Andhra cuisine, the food of Rayalaseema that is further inland, Telangana cuisine that is divided into food from the Deccan Plateau region and Hyderabadi cuisine and Uttarandhra food from the northernmost part of the state.

Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead. The foreign ministers gathered in the Saudi city of Jeddah for a special session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to address the situation in Gaza, at a time when the 7-week-old ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been thrown into doubt. In a statement put out Saturday, the gathering threw its support behind a plan to rebuild Gaza put forward by Egypt and backed by Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, aimed at countering Trump's call. The OIC groups 57 nations with largely Muslim populations.

IIT-Kanpur graduates known for sharing their unique travel experiences on social media, recently found themselves in an unusual situation during a road trip from Udaipur to Ahmedabad. With no place to stay for the night, they made a spontaneous decision that left them questioning whether it was sheer recklessness or a stroke of wisdom. On January 10, as they drove from Udaipur to Ahmedabad, the duo realized they had no accommodation arranged. In a moment of spontaneity, they put up an Instagram story asking if anyone would be willing to host them for the night. To their surprise, a complete stranger responded, inviting them to stay over. Taking a leap of faith, they arrived at his home later that night—unaware that this experience would change their perspective on travel.

Speculation of a hidden pot of treasure gained momentum after a JCB excavator engaged in constructing a national highway near a dargah unearthed soil that was subsequently dumped onto the farmland of a local resident, Haroon Sheikh. Shortly after, laborers allegedly discovered metal coins that appeared to be of historical significance. Some individuals even asserted that gold and silver coins from the Mughal period had surfaced. Word of the discovery quickly spread, drawing curious villagers from nearby areas who hoped to uncover hidden treasure. The situation was further intensified by references to Burhanpur in Chhaava, which shed light on the city's rich Mughal past, including its association with a major military campaign led by Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj and an alleged «gold mine.»

total lunar eclipse coinciding with the joyous celebration of Holi. This unique occurrence will showcase a breathtaking "Blood Moon," where the Moon takes on a striking red hue as it slips into Earth's shadow. In addition to the dramatic color shift, this eclipse will be a MicroMoon event, meaning the Moon will appear slightly smaller due to its distance from Earth.

For generations, women in India have carried the weight of this country in silence. Without applause or acknowledgment. Without policies designed with them in mind. They have fed its workers, raised its citizens, sustained its villages, and powered its cities. And all the while, they have been told they do not count. Not in the ledgers. Not in the GDP. Not in the boardrooms or the balance sheets. Even today, we ask what might happen if women were finally allowed to do more than hold the world together quietly in the background. What if they were given the resources, the safety, and the opportunity to build not just homes but enterprises? Not just families but firms?