Train on fire (Video shared by Zelenskyy on X) A passenger train with 340 people onboard was attacked in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed, saying the train’s driver and his assistant were killed in the strike.Zelenskyy said a Russian drone struck the locomotive of the passenger train. He said the…
After Starting His JD at Fifteen, Eighteen-Year-Old Loyola Law Student Graduates in May At an age when most teenagers are preparing for high school final exams or applying to undergraduate programs, 18-year-old James “Jimmy” Chilimigras has graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.The Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, native…
Nepali PM Balen Shah had raised up the issue of border with India, including Lipulekh. NEW DELHI: Nepal has apparently lost the decades-old original of the 1816 Treaty of Sugauli, a document that largely defined the Himalayan nation’s boundaries with British India, its foreign minister Shisir Khanal told Parliament on Monday.Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal told…
Scarlett Tiani and her amazing journey from a 5th-grade Invention Convention project at Tracey Magnet School to the national stage A pet safety system created by a Connecticut middle school student to protect postal workers, delivery drivers, neighbours, and pets has received national recognition and legal support for a US patent application.Scarlett Tiani, a sixth-grade…
Gordie Howe International Bridge days before its opening, July 2026. Image Credit: Wikipedia The Gordie Howe International Bridge has opened between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, creating a new six-lane crossing over the Detroit River and a new link between Canada and the United States. Its 853-metre main span is the longest of any cable-stayed…
Harrison’s H4 chronometre. Image Credit: Jordiferrer/Wikipedia The first clockmaker did not have to guess what time it was. Long before gears, wheels and moving hands appeared, people had already learned to track the passage of a day by watching the Sun, Moon and stars. Sundials, water clocks and other simple devices gave earlier societies ways…
View of Ford Cove where shoreline restoration is underway. Credit: InSite Design Studios, Inc. A major environmental restoration project is removing decades of artificial concrete shoreline defences along Michigan’s Lake St. Clair and replacing them with natural wetlands, living shorelines and fish habitat.The $7 million project at the historic Edsel and Eleanor Ford Estate is…
As Mayawati’s base shrinks, BJP, SP and Congress intensify fight for Dalit votes in UP NEW DELHI: Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh is at a crossroads. For a very long time, Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Party were synonymous with the idea of Dalit vote in UP. Not any more. Mayawati’s BSP today is a…
Trees laid out at the site for planting (FWS photos) A 112-acre restoration project has begun along the Raritan River in New Jersey, with the aim of bringing back forest and wetland habitat that was affected by contamination linked to the American Cyanamid Superfund Site. The project is being carried out under a settlement related…
Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s daughter and granddaughter of Amitabh Bachchan’s granddaughter has filed a case in the Delhi High Court seeking to stop the spread of fake and misleading information about her online. The case was filed after several YouTube videos made false claims about her health, including allegations that she was seriously…