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No Internet? PhonePe’s New UPI Trick Changes Everything

For millions of Indians, making a UPI payment usually means one thing: taking out a smartphone and connecting to the internet. PhonePe is now challenging that assumption. The company has launched PhonePe UPI 123Pay, a service designed to bring UPI payments to feature phones without requiring an internet connection. PhonePe…

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How to File a Consumer Court Complaint in India That Gets You Real Compensation

Send a Legal Notice Before You File AnythingChanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a dispute resolved before it reaches the king's court costs far less than one that doesn't. The consumer court system in India operates on the same logic: you must send a written legal notice to the company…

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Here's how Samsung is safeguarding silicon batteries in the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Fold 8 Ultra

Samsung isn't just adding a silicon-carbon material to the anode — it redesigned the battery architecture.

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In 1941, US Steel built a summer camp lodge at Indiana Dunes; after about 50 years closed, it has reopened and workers found an original time capsule hidden in its walls

Generations of Northwest Indiana children began their adventure at a summer camp along the Little Calumet River. Almost a century after the lodge opened its doors, the historic building at Indiana Dunes National Park is once again open for visitors. The reopening has an unexpected link to the past, thanks…

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41 Stunning Examples Of Street Art That Prove The Streets Are The Real Museums, As Shared By This Page

From enormous murals covering entire buildings to clever installations that interact with architecture and their surroundings, street art can transform even the most ordinary urban spaces into unexpected visual experiences. The artists featured by Street Art News work across styles and mediums, using walls, buildings, streets, and other elements of…

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How Cleaner Shrimp Run Ocean Stations That Show Symbiotic Fish Behavior at Work

The Cleaning Station Is a Real PlaceOn a coral reef, certain spots function like appointment desks. Cleaner shrimp, most commonly Lysmata amboinensis, the Pacific cleaner shrimp, and Ancylomenes pedersoni, the Pederson cleaner shrimp, set up at fixed locations on the reef and stay there. Fish learn where these stations are.…

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The Silent Rules of Indian Festival Dressing That No One Will Ever Say Out Loud to You

The outfit is never just an outfitThe morning of Diwali, you are not choosing clothes. You are choosing how much friction you are willing to absorb before the pooja even begins. The saree your mother laid out is not a suggestion. The salwar your mother-in-law mentioned last week, twice, casually,…

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What Kunti's Abandonment of Karna Reveals About Maternal Guilt, Dharma, and Impossible Choice

The basket on the river was not an ending, it was a beginning she could not witnessKunti was sixteen when she invoked Surya, the sun god, out of adolescent curiosity. She did not expect a child. When Karna arrived, born with divine armour fused to his skin and earrings that…

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What Your Deep Sleep Cycles Reveal About Brain Health, Memory, and Cognitive Aging

The Brain's Cleaning Shift Only Runs at NightDuring deep sleep, specifically the slow-wave stage that dominates the first half of the night, your brain activates a waste-clearance system called the glymphatic network. Cerebrospinal fluid pulses through channels around your neurons, flushing out metabolic byproducts that build up during waking hours.…

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Renault moving at 'speed of high-speed train' for Indian market, says CEO Stephane Deblaise

Renault is rapidly expanding its Indian market presence with new vehicle models. The company plans to introduce factory-fitted CNG and updated powertrains soon. Next-generation electronic architecture will feature in value segment vehicles. Renault aims to become a top three global market by 2030.

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Monet’s Riviera, 90s nostalgia and Bayeux à gogo! The best art and architecture of autumn 2026

A self-confident woman strides on to the Fourth Plinth, Nan Goldin captures sex, cats and death and even the Turner Prize shows promise this year

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India's Mangroves Store More Carbon Than Rainforests, And Coastal Deforestation Is Erasing Them Fast

The numbers that should change how you think about mangrovesA single hectare of mangrove forest stores up to 1,000 tonnes of carbon in its soil, roughly four to five times more than a comparable patch of tropical rainforest. The reason is structural. Mangroves grow at the edge of land and…

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Badami, Aihole and Pattadakal: Karnataka's Chalukya Heritage Triangle Where Indian Temple Architecture Evolved

The workshop nobody visitsAihole has 125 temples. On a typical weekday, you might share them with a handful of schoolchildren and a caretaker who has memorised the ASI signboards well enough to recite them without looking. The Durga Temple here, misnamed, it has nothing to do with the goddess and…

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34 Award-Winning Photos From The 2026 Minimalist Photography Contest

What happens when a photograph strips away everything unnecessary and leaves only shape, light, space, and a carefully chosen detail? The Minimalist Photography Awards 2026 offer a fascinating answer, bringing together images that find visual impact in subjects that might otherwise go unnoticed. This year’s overall winner was selected from…

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What India Loses When the Pangolin Vanishes: Soil Health, Termite Surges, and Biodiversity at Risk

A Pangolin Digs About 200 Burrows in Its LifetimeThe Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) is a burrowing insectivore that can excavate tunnels up to 3.5 metres deep. Each burrow aerates compacted earth, creates drainage channels, and deposits the animal's nitrogen-rich droppings at depth, a kind of involuntary composting that improves soil…

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Why South Indian Skincare Rituals Have Always Been Fundamentally Different From North Indian Beauty

The climate wrote the formula before anyone else didHumidity above 75 percent for eight months of the year changes what a face needs. In coastal Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and coastal Andhra Pradesh, the skin is perpetually primed, pores open, sebum active, the surface already damp before any product touches it.…

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Hampi's Volcanic Rock Formations: Three Days Inside Karnataka's Most Surreal Ruins and Boulders

The First Morning the Rocks Refuse to Make SenseYou step off the coracle at Virupapura Gaddi before the sun has cleared the Matanga Hill, and the first thing that stops you is not the Vijayanagara ruins. It is the boulders. They are stacked in formations that should not hold, granite…

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Pichavaram: Tamil Nadu's Most Stunning Mangrove Forest That the State Has Barely Told Anyone About

The water between the rootsThe water at Pichavaram doesn't move the way water usually moves. It sits between the roots of the mangrove trees like something that has decided to stay, dark, still, cut into channels so narrow your wooden boat barely fits through. You can reach out and touch…

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Face Yoga Movements That Actually Work for Indian Facial Structure and Bone Shape

Why Indian Bone Structure Changes the EquationIndian faces are not a monolith, but there are consistent skeletal tendencies across South Asian populations: a broader zygomatic arch (the cheekbone ridge), a relatively flat midface, a stronger and wider mandible, and orbital bones that sit the eyes deeper into the skull. A…

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Picturesque Danish-style California town, once home to Dolly Parton, faces 31-Airstream resort plan; residents call ‘trailer park’ style ‘completely inappropriate’

A proposed 31-unit Airstream “glamping” resort in Solvang, the picturesque California town once home to Dolly Parton, has sparked fierce opposition from residents and city officials. Plans for the former lumberyard include hotel suites, a pool, bar and lookout tower. Critics say the trailer-style development clashes with Solvang’s historic architectural…

The Times of India

In 2002, Alabama architecture students stacked 72,000 worn carpet tiles into the walls of a family home; Rural Studio has now built more than 200 projects

Students at Rural Studio have transformed donated carpet tiles into the innovative Lucy Carpet House, providing a vital home and prayer space for the Harris family. This initiative is part of a broader effort that has resulted in over 200 projects within Hale County, enabling students to gain hands-on experience…

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Rain-harvesting roofs and natural air-con: Architects take cues from nature ahead of global awards

The World Architecture Festival shortlist is brimming with nature-led designs.

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This English Country House Was Designed to Make Staying Home More Exciting Than Going Away

BORONKAY Studio transformed this historic Surrey estate into a richly layered family home, balancing intimate rooms with two spectacular new wings designed for gathering and entertaining

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What Your Dog's Brain Actually Does When It Hears Your Voice, According to fMRI Research

The Scan That Changed EverythingIn 2016, a team led by neuroethologist Attila Andics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest put dogs inside an fMRI machine and played them human voices. The dogs had been trained over months to lie still without sedation, a feat that itself says something about how…

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Durban's Indian Diaspora: How KwaZulu-Natal Became Home to a Community That Never Forgot India

The Crossing That Was Never Meant to Be PermanentIn November 1860, a ship called the Truro docked at Port Natal carrying 342 Indians from Madras. They had signed five-year indenture contracts to work the sugar cane fields of the Natal colony. The British needed labour after emancipation freed enslaved Africans.…

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