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You plant something pretty, it grows beautifully, and a year or two later your neighbour is knocking on the door to politely ask why it’s now coming up in their lawn. Plants don’t read property deeds. Some of the most popular garden choices spread through underground stems, runners or climbing growth, and they cheerfully cross…

Photo: charulatha_remesh/ Instagram Few cricketers have been talked about as much as Sanju Samson this year, as his batting lit up the T20 World Cup in March, where he was named Player of the Tournament as India lifted the trophy on home soil. But beyond their presence on the field, these cricketers also have an…

Quote of the day by Oscar Wilde: “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, playwright, novelist, and one of the most celebrated wits of Victorian London. He wrote the play The Importance of Being Earnest and…

Location: Across the Sahyadri ranges | UNESCO inscription: 2012 The rich biodiversity of the Western Ghats is recognised as being of outstanding universal value as a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the natural category. The region is one of the world’s eight hottest hotspots of biological diversity, making it an ecologically sensitive area. Older than…

Sometimes, the things that drain us the most are not our responsibilities but our need to control how everything turns out. We want people to understand us, plans to work out and relationships to remain exactly as they are. And when life takes a different turn, it can leave us feeling disappointed or anxious. Non-attachment…

Photo: MacKenzie Scott/ X MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced $7.1 billion in new donations on December 9, 2025. Among them was $60 million for the Global Methane Hub, which funds projects to reduce methane, according to Fortune.Methane gas is not visible, nor can it be smelled. Yet it slips…

Photo credit: Saffron Art In February 1899, Indian artist Mahadev Visvanath Dhurandhar painted a nearly five-foot-tall image of Hindu goddess Mahalakshmi, dressed in a white nine-yard saree with a gold border. More than 127 years later, the oil painting sold for Rs 14.1 crore at an auction in New Delhi, after passing through the hands…

Timing matters as much as product choice. Wash your hair a day or two before the event to give curls time to settle into their natural shape. Freshly washed curls can be softer and less defined, while day-old curls may hold their shape better. Allow enough time for drying, too. Depending on length and density,…

Dad and Daughter duo (Instagram) A wedding is generally a bride and groom’s moment to shine. But the wedding that happened in China’s Chaozhou, Guangdong province, it was the bride’s father who took away all the attention for all the right reasons! Meet the bride’s father, Zheng who at 41 looked so amazingly young standing…

This can be the hardest sign to accept. You remember the trips, late-night conversations and moments when this person showed up for you. You do not regret the friendship, and you may still feel happy when something good happens to them. But you no longer feel the need to recreate the closeness you once shared….