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La Tomatina Festival: Bollywood made it look magical, but reality is “messy and smelly”: Indian female traveller reveals what Spain’s La Tomatina festival is really like before you spend lakhs to attend

Reality of La Tomatina/Instagram For many Indian travellers, attending Spain’s famous La Tomatina festival is a bucket-list experience. All thanks to the unforgettable and dreamy tomato fight sequence in the blockbuster cinema Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (ZNMD). Travellers often end up spending lakhs just to recreate that perfect ZNMD moment. But the reality is beyond…

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Mirabai Chanu, Tejaswin Shankar headline India’s historic highs despite modest medal tally at CWG | Commonwealth Games News

Mirabai Chanu, Neeraj Chopra, Tejaswin Shankar, Preeti Pawar (left to right) India signed off from the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with 39 medals — 13 gold, 17 silver and nine bronze. The contingent fell short of the 50-medal mark that India had reached at every Commonwealth Games since 2002.With several medal-rich sports missing from…

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Concha García Zaera: She found worldwide fame in her late 80s: How her stunning digital paintings captivated millions across the globe

She never gave up on art: A grandmother whose remarkable digital creations made her an Instagram icon (Canva) There is something magical about watching someone prove the world wrong without saying a word. Concha García Zaera did exactly that.At the age of 87, the grandmother from Valencia, Spain, became an unlikely internet sensation. She sat…

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Sonam Wangchuk’s wife Gitanjali Angmo takes a dig at Bollywood after watching Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’, calls it a surreal experience: ‘Cinema is more than entertainment’ |

Social entrepreneur Gitanjali Angmo, activist Sonam Wangchuk’s wife, has shared her admiration for Christopher Nolan’s latest film, The Odyssey, while also offering her thoughts on the current state of Hindi cinema. In a recent post, she recalled meeting the Oscar-winning filmmaker in New York in 2024 and suggested that Bollywood should revisit its potential to…

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Golden Apple Snail: In the 1980s, golden apple snails were introduced to Taiwan for food: They soon became a nightmare for rice farmers

Golden Apple Snail (Photo: Canva) We often come across stories that are well planned but do not yield results as expected.Even in the case of fruits and farms, when nature refuses to adhere, that’s exactly what happened in Taiwan in the early 1980s, when farmers and entrepreneurs imported a striking, golden-shelled snail from South America…

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UK PM Burnham may exempt child rapists from early release scheme as Conservatives demand stricter action

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is considering exempting child sex offenders and other serious sexual abuse perpetrators from a controversial early prison release scheme as ministers race to finalise safeguards before the policy takes effect in September.The review comes as the government struggles to balance mounting prison overcrowding with concerns over public safety and victims’…

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On July 24, a passenger packed a power bank in an overhead bin; minutes later it caught fire on a China Eastern flight, prompting airlines to tighten battery rules

Passenger packed a power bank (Instagram) A domestic flight in China turned into a nightmare and ignited safety concerns across the globe after a power bank caught fire inside an overhead luggage compartment. The incident which took place on 24 July, 2026, once again is drawing attention to one of aviation’s fastest-growing safety concerns which…

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New Orleans: New Orleans collected 9,000 discarded Christmas trees and airlifted them into coastal wetlands; the programme has restored marsh equal to nearly 200 football fields

A helicopter dropping its first bundle of trees for the Christmas tree drop restoration project (US fish and wild life service photos) Every year after Christmas, thousands of used trees are thrown away. In New Orleans, however, many of them get a second use. Instead of ending up in landfill, the trees are collected, tied…

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