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India’s state-run oil companies continue to face mounting financial pressure from elevated global crude oil prices, with daily losses remaining close to Rs 600 crore despite multiple increases in retail fuel prices this month, Reuters reported on May 25 citing government officials.The latest revision in petrol and diesel prices, the fourth hike this month, comes as public sector oil marketing companies attempt to narrow the gap between domestic retail rates and surging international crude prices. Officials said the recent price hikes have only partially offset losses incurred by retailers such as Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan Petroleum…

The Centre has turned up the pressure on ministries to accelerate the shutdown of loss-making public sector enterprises, as progress on winding up unviable state-owned firms remains limited despite policy approval nearly eight years ago, The Times of India reported on May 25.Government officials said only one public sector company — Rajasthan Drugs and Pharmaceuticals — has effectively ceased operations after the Rajasthan government agreed to take it over. The development comes even though the Union government had earlier cleared the shutdown of more than 40 financially weak public sector undertakings, ToI’s report (by Sidhartha) said.The issue was reviewed recently…

BBC Verify has found Israel has been building a series of earth barriers inside Gaza since the October ceasefire. Source link

More than 400 years ago, the up and coming Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens toured the streets of Rome, notebook in hand, sketching images from Renaissance works adorning the city’s churches and palazzos.Now a rare sheet, thought to be from his Roman sketchbook, has gone on display in his home city of Antwerp, shedding new light on the baroque master.Unveiled to the public for the first time is a unique double-sided sheet featuring a drawing on one side and a partial draft letter on the reverse. The curator of the Rubenshuis museum, An Van Camp, thinks it probably came from…

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump share a similarity in “destruction,” adding that this is why they keep praising each other.Kharge’s remarks came a day after Trump made a surprise live audio call to US ambassador to India Sergio Gor, who was attending an event in New Delhi, and told him that he (Trump) “loves” both PM Modi and India.Also Read | ‘I love Prime Minister Modi’: Trump makes surprise live call during US embassy event in Delhi – videoGor placed the…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New claims that the United States has recovered remains of four separate species of alien life are sending shockwaves throughout the UFO disclosure movement, further drumming up conversations surrounding the government’s knowledge of otherworldly life. Dr. Hal Puthoff, a CIA-funded researcher and former Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program advisor, announced the new revelation while appearing at a UFO roundtable on Steve Bartlett’s “The Diary of a CEO” podcast alongside “Age of Disclosure” director Dan Farrah last week. “Given the level of quality of their technology, if they didn’t want to be seen, we…

3 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 25, 2026 02:32 PM IST The Supreme Court said Monday it is “sad” that the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts NEET, has still not learned its lessons despite the court intervening on previous occasions while making its displeasure evident over the NEET UG 2026 question paper leak. A bench of Justices PS Narasimha and Alok Aradhe sought a response from the Centre, NTA and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on pleas for the replacement of the testing agency with a robust and autonomous body to conduct the medical entrance exam. The matter has…

In northeastern California lies a series of caves that formed thousands of years ago when volcanoes erupted lava that later solidified, leaving behind tunnels wide enough for humans to walk through. But Earth isn’t the only planet in our solar system with volcanoes — extraterrestrial caves formed all across the solar system.Take Mars, for instance. Millions of years before life on Earth came to be, volcanoes erupted on the Red Planet, too. Martian volcanoes appear to be dormant right now, but that former activity left behind the largest tunnel network in the solar system. The resulting lava tubes stretch over…

The federal government’s pause on new loans for anaerobic digesters, the controversial method of converting animal manure from large-scale feeding operations into biogas, will now extend through the end of the year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture explained the move in financial terms, saying digester projects had “significant delinquency rates and realized losses.”  Digesters are intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The Trump administration has targeted climate efforts across the federal government—but unlike many initiatives pitched as climate-friendly, digesters are popular with the agricultural industry and viewed with concern by environmentalists. Digesters cover open-air manure pits with massive black tarps…

CBS and Paramount have reportedly issued multiple takedown notices to YouTube channels posting bootleg copies of Stephen Colbert’s episode of Only in Monroe, a public access series he hosted one day after his late-night show ended. According to Variety, the final episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert aired on May 21, 2026, and 23 hours later, the talk show host appeared as the host of an episode of Only in Monroe, a public access show by the Monroe Community Media. Several YouTube channels began uploading bootleg copies of the one-hour episode. They were quickly served with takedown notices…