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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
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Topic: Weight

Ronna, quetta, ronto & quecto: As measurements get new prefixes, Earth now weighs 6 ronnagrams

Four prefixes approved at General Conference on Weights & Measures last week. Until now, yotta & yocto were largest & smallest prefixes.

Punjab’s 24-year-old Lovepreet Singh wins bronze in men’s 109kg

Singh lifted a total 355 kg, with a new national record 192 kg in clean, adding to India's medal tally, having so far won eight weightlifting medals, including three gold.

WFH and gaining weight by eating junk, ordering online? This is how you can fix it

Weight gain is frustrating, depressing and stressful, but tackle it one step at a time. We are going through a pandemic. 

Adele to Katrina Kaif — Stop obsessing about ‘revenge bodies’, it just shows fatphobia

When singer Adele posted a picture of herself on Instagram on her birthday, little would she have known that her fans would only praise her weight-loss.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

China pushes for separation of border issue from larger bilateral ties at 24th round of talks with India

New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?