Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, plans to donate one-third of his wealth to charity as part of his succession plan. Halima Dangote, his daughter and trustee of the Aliko Dangote Foundation, disclosed the plan in a Bloomberg interview published on Tuesday. The billionaire plans to dedicate 33 per cent of his estate to philanthropy.The billionaire’s…
$800 million Mega Millions jackpot won by Florida ticket holder after four-month wait; winning numbers, payout and how to play explained A lucky lottery player in Florida has finally claimed the massive $800 million Mega Millions jackpot after the prize went unclaimed for more than four months.According to the Mega Millions website, the winning ticket…
MP farmers breach barricades, march towards CM Mohan Yadav’s residence over moong MSP. (PTI images) NEW DELHI: Hundreds of farmers protesting over the procurement of summer moong at the minimum support price (MSP) breached multiple police barricades and marched to Roshanpura Square in Bhopal on Wednesday, reaching within a kilometre of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister…
Arthur Schopenhauer (Image source: Wikipedia) Modern life rewards constant connection, endless notifications, endless networking, endless visibility. Arthur Schopenhauer, the German philosopher, pointed toward something almost opposite. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude,” he wrote. An eagle does not build its nest in the middle of a crowded valley….
NEW DELHI: While the use of rice, maize and damaged food grain for ethanol manufacturing has increased manifold in the past six years, maize has surpassed rice sold by Food Corporation of India (FCI) to distilleries under govt’s ethanol blended petrol (EBP) programme.Food ministry’s data submitted to Lok Sabha on Wednesday show that till June…
Staying neutral often feels like the safer option, in workplaces, in public life, in almost any situation where a strong opinion might invite criticism. King Charles III, speaking as Prince of Wales, described the opposite instinct with a self-deprecating joke. “I’m a dangerous person because I mind about things,” he said. He was not describing…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday urged the Election Commission to conclude its inquiry into the rival claims over the party, alleging that the Ritabrata Banerjee-led faction had failed to submit its response despite being granted two extensions.In a fresh letter to the poll panel, Mamata said her faction had submitted its…
For generations, the history of silk has been told in a fairly straightforward way. Domesticated silkworms emerged in ancient China, silk travelled westward once the Silk Road developed, and the knowledge required to raise silkworms followed the same route. That sequence has shaped both archaeological research and popular history for decades. The story may be…
pc: Study: Elephant-bone tool (NHMUK PV UNREG 4339) from intertidal deposits at the Boxgrove Waterhole Site Half a million years ago, people living in what is now southern England were doing far more than shaping stone into cutting tools. A newly analysed elephant bone from the famous Boxgrove archaeological site suggests they were carefully choosing,…
Former US Chief Medical Advisor Dr Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Republican-led Senate hearing on Wednesday, declining to answer questions about his role in the federal COVID-19 response after being subpoenaed to appear.Fauci, who led the nation’s pandemic response, said he was acting on legal advice and described the decision as difficult….