Havildar Shere Thapa of the 2nd Battalion, Jammu & Kashmir Rifles, was credited with saving the Subansiri Valley during the 1962 Chinese aggression NEW DELHI: Sher-e-Thapa Memorial, set up in memory of 1962 China war hero Havildar Shere Thapa, is one of the 27 places in Arunachal that the Union government on Friday formally named…
A potentially enormous tungsten resource has been identified beneath the Nevada desert, but a NASA land restriction could prevent the company behind the project from fully exploring or developing it.3 Proton Lithium, a privately held critical-minerals developer, says its Railroad Valley Minerals Project contains an inferred tungsten resource of approximately 1.78 million tonnes. If future…
In 1849, Italian-born inventor Antonio Meucci began developing an early voice-transmission device that would later be known as the “teletrofono.” Decades of experimentation, financial hardship and a lapsed patent caveat meant that credit for the telephone ultimately went to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Meucci’s story, however, did not end there. Nearly 113 years after…
In the early 1970s, state officials and the US Army Corps of Engineers approved the dumping of vast numbers of used tyres into the Atlantic Ocean off Broward County, Florida. The idea was simple: create cheap, abundant artificial reef habitat to boost fish populations for anglers. Instead, the scheme left behind what is now known…
The day calls for effort, not for quick cuts. Mars is your ruler and is pressing you at a practical angle this morning, and the Moon stimulates work and obligation therefore even the simplest tasks could feel more difficult than typical.Still, this pressure has a purpose. If you place your shoulders on the steering wheel,…
A Porter Airlines flight was canceled in Canada because a child refused to fasten seatbelt. A flight was delayed by a day because of a misbehaving child who refused to sit and fasten the seatbelt. The incident took place on a Porter flight PD4444, which was scheduled to fly from Victoria International Airport to Toronto…
At the heart of the Hub is the Indian Heritage Garden, which brings together heritage trees propagated from historically significant locations across the country NEW DELHI: Science and technology minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday dedicated to the nation the first-of-its-kind CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR-NBRI) ‘eco-educational hub’ ‘Prakriti Gyan Dham’ at Maharishi Parashar Bioresource Centre…
Emma Meline (Image Credit: GoFundMe) A Utah family’s difficult medical journey took an emotional turn when young Emma Meline was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia just days before Christmas, and about two months later, the family learned that her 2-year-old sister was a perfect bone marrow match. According to a GoFundMe fundraiser organised by Emma’s…
Photo credit: Jstage.jst.go.jp A small dinosaur bone discovered in Fukushima, Japan, more than two decades ago has given scientists a new glimpse into the diversity of ancient life along East Asia’s coast.The fossil, found in 1999 and left largely unexamined for years, has now been identified as part of the breastbone of a plant-eating dinosaur…
Horoscope Today: Read daily horoscope predictions for August 9, 2026. Know all about the astrological events and influences that will be affecting each of the 12 zodiac signs. Our astrologer has analyzed the movements of the planets and the alignment of the stars to bring you the most accurate and up-to-date horoscope predictions for the…
University of Michigan. (AP Photo) A major US university is set to stop showing letter grades for first-semester freshmen in an effort to help students adjust to college life and address what it calls a growing mental health crisis among college-aged students.The University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) will introduce…
Vikram Mubayi, a chemical engineering PhD student at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), died after going missing during a solo hike in California’s Eastern Sierra, with his family now left seeking answers over what happened.Mubayi’s brother, who had earlier appealed for help on Reddit, later shared an update confirming that search-and-rescue teams had…
