More than a century ago, engineers proposed an audacious idea for Egypt’s Western Desert, cutting a canal from the Mediterranean Sea into the Qattara Depression, a vast basin sitting well below sea level, and using the resulting flow of water to generate electricity indefinitely. The concept first surfaced around 1912 and was developed further by…
A routine railway tunnel project in the Swedish coastal town of Varberg has turned into an unexpected archaeological event, after construction crews cut into a buried stretch of the town’s medieval waterfront and uncovered the remains of six separate shipwrecks. The vessels range from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century, with four dating to…
The man had previously been charged with rape and sodomy of a drugged victim. An illegal immigrant working as an agricultural labourer in Southern California has been arrested after US border authorities said he had previously faced multiple serious criminal charges, including rape and sodomy of a drugged victim.US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) El…
NITI Aayog new CEO Anurag Jain NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday appointed Anurag Jain, a 1989-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre, as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of NITI Aayog, the government’s apex public policy think tank.The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved Jain’s appointment as…
Britain’s canal network was never designed with nature in mind. Built more than two centuries ago to move coal, clay and cotton across an industrialising country, these engineered waterways were about as far from a natural habitat as a landscape could get. Yet today, nearly 8,000 kilometres of canals crisscrossing the country have quietly become…
37,164 killed on 6,358 ‘black corridors’ of NHs in 3 yrs: Road ministry NEW DELHI: Govt has identified 6,358 “black corridors” on NH network during 2023-25, which recorded 37,164 deaths, as per road transport ministry. The maximum such black corridors were in Tamil Nadu (958), followed by UP (671) and Karnataka (607). Among districts, Viluppuram…
UAE introduces Tabby instalment payments for MoHRE fees and fines nationwide. UAE’s Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has launched a new payment option allowing customers to pay service fees and administrative fines in instalments through “Tabby”.The service enables payments to be split over a period of four to 12 months, with a maximum…
Hope has inspired humanity through wars, disasters, personal struggles and moments of uncertainty for thousands of years. Long before modern psychology explored the power of optimism, the ancient Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus reflected on hope as one of life’s greatest strengths. His famous words, “Hope is the only good that is common to all…
NEW DELHI: The Central armed police forces (CAPFs) have planted nearly 6.7 crore saplings in the last five years as part of a countrywide plantation drive, the home ministry told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.Junior home minister Nityanand Rai, in reply to a written question, shared that the seven CAPFs — CRPF, BSF, CISF, ITBP,…
File photo: Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s initial appearance to face US federal charges (Picture credit: Reuters) Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, will go on trial in the United States on June 1, 2027, over drug trafficking charges after a federal judge approved the schedule on Wednesday.Maduro, 63, and Flores,…