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Strands is a brand new daily puzzle from the New York Times. A trickier take on the classic word search, you’ll need a keen eye to solve this puzzle. Like Wordle, Connections, and the Mini Crossword, Strands can be a bit difficult to solve some days. There’s no shame in needing a little help from time to time. If you’re stuck and need to know the answers to today’s Strands puzzle, check out the solved puzzle below. How to play Strands You start every Strands puzzle with the goal of finding the “theme words” hidden in the grid of letters.…
Wednesday, April 10, will be the first day of Eid Al Fitr in Australia, according to a statement by the Australian Fatwa Council. The new moon has not been sighted in Australia, so the Fatwa Council has said in a statement: “It has been confirmed to the Australian Fatwa Council after further inquiries to the local and global observatories, that in Sydney, the new moon of the month will be born on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 4.20am AEST, the sun sets on the same day at 5.39pm, while the new moon will set on the same day and time,…
Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for! A bite-sized version of the New York Times’ well-known crossword puzzle, The Mini is a quick and easy way to test your crossword skills daily in a lot less time (the average puzzle takes most players just over a minute to solve). While The Mini is smaller and simpler than a normal crossword, it isn’t always easy. Tripping up on one clue can be the difference between a personal best completion time and an embarrassing…
Gold prices jumped further in the UAE at the start of the week, hitting another new high on Monday morning. According to the Dubai Jewellery Group data, the 24K variant of the yellow metal was trading at Dh283.5 per gram at the opening of the markets on Monday, up one-and-a-half dirham from last week’s close. Among the other variants, 22K opened at Dh262.5, 21K at Dh254.25 and 18K at Dh217.75 per gram. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. The precious metal prices have jumped by Dh10 per gram in the UAE this month…
The Indian rupee gained in early trading on Monday, continuing its upside momentum from the previous session, even though US bond yields jumped as investors pared bets on a rate cut by the Federal Reserve in June. The rupee was at 22.68 to the UAE dirham as of 9:45 a.m. IST, up slightly from 23.69 in the previous session, when the rupee rose nearly 0.2%, recovering from Thursday’s record low of 22.73. Broad-based dollar sales from local and foreign banks helped the rupee on Monday, a foreign exchange trader at a state-run bank said. [Editor’s Note: For real-time forex rates,…
Connections is the latest puzzle game from the New York Times. The game tasks you with categorizing a pool of 16 words into four secret (for now) groups by figuring out how the words relate to each other. The puzzle resets every night at midnight and each new puzzle has a varying degree of difficulty. Just like Wordle, you can keep track of your winning streak and compare your scores with friends. Some days are trickier than others. If you’re having a little trouble solving today’s Connections puzzle, check out our tips and hints below. And if you still can’t get…
As many residents across the UAE kick off a long break for Eid, they can expect partly cloudy weather in general, with medium clouds appearing over coastal western areas and islands, as per a forecast by the National Centre of Meteorology. There is a probability of light rainfall today. Light to moderate winds are set to blow, freshening at times. The sea will be slight to moderate at times in the Arabian Gulf and slight in the Oman Sea. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. Temperatures are expected to drop to a low…
More than 90 people died after a ferry sank off the north coast of Mozambique, the BBC said, citing domestic authorities, with five rescued from among the nearly 130 believed to have been on board. They were fleeing a cholera outbreak, the broadcaster said on Sunday, citing Jaime Neto, secretary of state for the province of Nampula near the incident site. “Because the boat was overcrowded and unsuited to carry passengers, it ended up sinking,” he said, adding that many children were among the dead. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. Government officials…
Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, was on a shopping trip in Dubai, a video of which is going viral on the social media. Apparently, the 28-year-old Ambani scion created quite a spectacle as he and his partner Radhika Merchant arrived at the popular Dubai mall in an orange Rolls Royce Cullinan Black Badge along with a tight security cover. An auto enthusiast on the internet said there was a fleet of 20 escort vehicles in Ambani’s convoy that included Cadillac Escalades, GMC Yukon Denalis, and Chevrolet Suburbans. Watch the videos here: Stay up to…
SpaceX recently lit all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster in a static fire test ahead of its fourth flight. The tethered test took place at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, and was performed without the Starship spacecraft atop the booster. The company shared a video showing the engines firing up: Static fire of the Flight 4 Super Heavy booster pic.twitter.com/6KMgvKSmSK — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 6, 2024 It also posted some dramatic images captured during the same test: Additional views from today’s Super Heavy static fire pic.twitter.com/jSmw7UxKF8 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 6, 2024 Once SpaceX receives…