TCS techie Navdeep Sharma filed a lawsuit over delay in H-1B visa approval. An Indian techie, separated from his wife and children for over 18 months because of the visa refusals he’s facing in India, has sued several US officials but a district court dismissed his lawsuit and said the court understood the situation with…
Beavers are finally released at Boothby Wildland. Photograph: Jonathan Perugia/Gaia Visual for Nattergal A bold experiment in Lincolnshire (County in England) is showing that restoring British nature can become a highly profitable business, with a planned beaver colony at the centre of a multimillion-pound land transformation, reports the Guardian.Four years after conservation company Nattergal bought…
Pic courtesy: Daily Record Brian Hurton, a 55-year-old man from East Kilbride, Scotland, died alone after calling 999 twice, only to be told to wait for a call back. Despite informing them that he was struggling to breathe and feared he would collapse, no ambulance was sent. By the time medical help was finally dispatched,…
The body of a missing South Korean sailor has been recovered off the east coast, a day after he disappeared during patrol near the de facto maritime border with North Korea, the navy said on Monday.The sailor, a seaman apprentice, failed to report for duty on Sunday morning while the vessel was on patrol near…
Pic courtesy: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have discovered 18 ancient Egyptian tombs along the Mediterranean coast, and they came with golden tongues, literally. They uncovered 18 tombs along a stretch of coastline near Marina el-Alamein, about 60 miles west of Alexandria, untouched for roughly two thousand years. Inside, they found sealed stone…
Scientists in China just found something amazing. It’s the world’s smallest cat fossil found in China, and it belongs to a brand-new species of extinct leopard cat. This tiny cat was so small, it could fit right in your hand.Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in eastern China,…
Startup founder left San Francisco for Buenos Aires, says it helped him build a family (Picture source: LinkedIn/Coby Conrad; AI enhanced photo) Koby Conrad, the founder of AI sobriety companion Sunflower, says moving from San Francisco to Buenos Aires has helped him focus on both his company and his personal life. While he still believes…
In January 1906, the SS Valencia was nearing the end of what should have been a routine passenger voyage along the Pacific coast. The ship was carrying travellers from San Francisco to Seattle, following a route used regularly by coastal steamers. But as the vessel approached the waters near Vancouver Island, conditions began to change….
A 65-year-old grandfather who was violently tossed into the air by a bull bison at Yellowstone National Park has been identified as Carl Isom-McDaniel from Washington state. The dramatic attack left him with multiple broken bones after the animal charged while he was with his grandson near the Bridge Bay Campground. Despite the severity of…
Back in the late 1800s, Hawaii’s booming sugarcane industry had a serious rat problem. Rats were tearing through the cane fields, cutting into profits, and plantation owners wanted a quick fix. Their answer was to bring in the small Indian mongoose, a fast, sharp-toothed little predator known for hunting rats and snakes back in its…
Every living organism inherits a unique combination of traits, from eye colour and blood type to resistance against certain diseases. These characteristics are determined by genes, but genes themselves can exist in different forms. These alternative versions are known as alleles. While one allele may produce a particular trait, another may result in a different…
What happened in Lindsey Graham’s final hours? Trump call, Ukraine trip, cardiac emergency and sudden death at 71 Veteran South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has died at the age of 71 after what his office described as a “brief and sudden illness.” Graham passed away on Saturday night, just a day after returning from an…
