Smoking raises mortality risk by 55% for diabetics | India News
Smoking raises mortality risk by 55% for diabetics NEW DELHI: Smoking increased the risk of death from any cause by 55% among people with diabetes, according to evidence reviewed in…
HC allows 2 ‘linked’ to NEET leak to go for counselling | India News
The court was hearing the students’ plea seeking release of their re-NEET results NEW DELHI: Delhi HC has directed National Testing Agency (NTA) to declare within 24 hours the NEET-UG…
CPI(ML)L to launch ‘Fix the schools’ campaign, seeks to keep Jantar Mantar momentum going | India News
CPI(ML) Liberation is looking to build on the gains made by its students’ wing AISA NEW DELHI: Preparing to assert the Left’s presence in upcoming state polls next year in…
SC awards pension to Mumbai engineer who forged ST certificate | India News
SC allowed him to superannuate in peace with retirement benefits NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has rewarded a wrongdoer – a man who got appointed as a junior civil engineer in…
Coal stock at thermal plants plummets, ‘critical’ at 50 units | India News
Coal stocks at thermal power plants across the country have fallen to less than half the recommended level NEW DELHI: Coal stocks at thermal power plants across the country have…
Europe waking up to Modi’s warning ‘a bit late’: Belgian PM | India News
Belgian PM said India and Europe were now facing similar challenges NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever on Friday said Europe had been slow to recognise the risks…
Hours after AAIB report, AI sacks Phuket flight pilot | India News
Air India Friday sacked the pilot-in-command of its badly rattled Aug 4 Phuket-Delhi NEW DELHI: Air India Friday sacked the pilot-in-command of its badly rattled Aug 4 Phuket-Delhi flight hours…
‘Exceptionally rare’: All 3 hydraulic systems of Air India Phuket-Delhi flight failed together | India News
The hydraulic failure itself, the more immediate cause of the injuries onboard, unfolded within a five-second window. VT-EXO, an eight-year-old A320neo carrying 145 people, had just been cleared to climb…
SC overturns trial court, HC orders to acquit kidnap-murder accused | India News
Supreme Court freed a man sentenced by lower courts NEW DELHI: For the third time this week, Supreme Court freed a man sentenced by lower courts – in a kidnapping…
Punjab government to hike DA of 85,000 employees from 42 to 60 pc: Minister Aman Arora | India News
Punjab government will raise the Dearness Allowance of around 85,000 government employees Chandigarh, Punjab government will raise the Dearness Allowance of around 85,000 government employees recruited after July 17, 2020…
This Chilean community catches fog in giant nets and turns coastal mist into water; the unusual idea now harvests up to 650,000 litres a year in a drought-hit region | World News
A drought-hit community in northern Chile has found an unusual source of water in something that usually passes unnoticed. On the hills above Peña Blanca, in the Coquimbo region, giant…
Quote of the day by Arnold Schwarzenegger: “Never follow the crowd, go where it’s…” – a powerful advice on success | World News
Quote of the day by Arnold Schwarzenegger (Image: Wikipedia) Arnold Schwarzenegger’s quote is a genuinely powerful reminder about individuality, courage and finding real opportunity precisely where other people are not…
In 1978, advocates sought affordable homes in a New York town; nearly 50 years and a landmark court battle later, a $98 million community with 145 homes is finally complete
Representative Image (AI-generated) A proposal that began as a fight for affordable housing in a Long Island community in 1978 has finally resulted in 145 affordable homes. Matinecock Court, a…
Chinese man studying in Canada arrested by US for espionage-like activities, sister says ‘If my brother is a Chinese spy, then I am Trump’s father’
A Chinese student studying in Canada has been arrested in the US for espionage-like activities as he was seen taking photographs of planes, freight, etc. A Chinese student studying at…
Joseph Martinek bought a Texas farm in 1911; 115 years later, his descendants donated a conservation easement protecting 470 acres of farmland, wildlife habitat and open space
From left to right: Tiffany Osburn, TLC Board Member and Deputy State Archeologist; Russell Friemel, landowner; and Sergio Ayala, archeologist. (Photo: Stephen Ramirez) Martinek Farm, located outside La Grange in…
A former California oil field has faced development pressure for 50 years; after a 25-year preservation fight, supporters are $20 million short of a $95 million land purchase
Sign in West Coyote Hills advertising proposed trails. (Photos: Fullerton Observer) For 50 years, West Coyote Hills in Fullerton, California, has faced the threat of development. The 510-acre open space…
In Oklahoma, a veteran spent 5 years fighting back invasive cedars on his 400-acre ranch; now native grasses are returning and water is flowing into newly reappearing streams
Heishman started working with Duel Brown, the Pawnee County conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, who helped find practical ways to improve the property. Retired Marine Corps veteran Brian…
He came to Canada to study. Then he protested and was ordered to leave. Gurpreet Singh says the intimidation worked, students are now afraid
Gurpreet Singh now has no option other than leaving Canada. (Photo: Toronto Star) Gurpreet Singh thought he was fighting for the right to stay in Canada and build a life…
Gold miners have breached a refuge built for rescued orangutans; 14 hectares of Indonesia’s sanctuary damaged in 3 years
Illegal gold miners have encroached on Indonesia’s Jantho forest reservation, a vital reintroduction site for the critically endangered Sumatran orangutan. The country’s largest environmental pressure group, Indonesian Forum for the…
Donald Trump calls Maria Bartiromo a ‘true warrior’ after Fox News exit, says he ‘can’t believe’ she is leaving and warns ‘her fans will not be happy’
US President Donald Trump praises Maria Bartiromo as a “true warrior” after her Fox News exit, saying her fans “will not be happy.” (Photo: Instagram) US President Donald Trump has…
Who is Bhavesh Lathiya, a Gujarati businessman dealing with ‘Vitamin C and antacid’, sentenced to 4.5 years in a US prison in a first-of-its-kind case?
Indian businessman Bhavesh Lathiya sentenced to 54 months in prison for distributing and smuggling fentanyl precursor chemicals. An Indian chemical company executive has been sentenced to 54 months in a…
Meet Lilah Mehta, the Connecticut high-school student who entered a Yale lab at 16 and is already a co-author of published research
When Lilah Mehta entered a biomedical research laboratory at Yale University as a 16-year-old high-school pupil, her main goal was to explore the biological questions that had interested her since…
In 1989, Detroit Zoo began helping save snails wiped out in the wild; 37 years later, 500 are travelling 5,000 miles to Tahiti, part of a program that has returned 17,000
Representative Image (AI-generated) A conservation effort that began nearly four decades ago is sending hundreds of tiny snails on a remarkable journey back to their native home. Five hundred Partula…
In 2011, a 39,000-sq-ft Michigan school on a former Air Force base sold for $40,000; 15 years later, one wing has become 5 homes and the 19-acre property is asking $450,000
A former Michigan school sold for $40,000 in 2011 is now listed for $450,000. (Photo: Realtor.com) A former school building on a Michigan Air Force base has undergone a remarkable…
A pigeon with a ‘bleeding heart’ has returned after 20 years: Rare Philippine bird spotted in 2026, but why its comeback may not be good news
A camera on the Philippine island of Mindoro captured one of the country’s rarest birds, confirming that the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon still survives in the wild. The bird…