When Hurricane Matthew struck Florida in October 2016, New Smyrna Beach faced winds of more than 90 miles per hour and water levels around four feet above normal. Along the coast, those conditions put shoreline protection to a serious test. But one demonstration site emerged with an unexpected result. A living shoreline project supported by…
Yasir was reportedly operating with a Lashkar-e-Taiba group led by commander Junai Ahmed Bhat. NEW DELHI: Lashkar terrorist Yasir, a Pakistani national linked to Hafiz Saeed‘s outift, was killed by security forces in the higher reaches of Yusmarg in central Kashmir, on Saturday.He was suspected of being involved in several major terror attacks in Jammu…
Visingsö Oak Forest. Image Credit: Atlas Obscura In the early 19th century, Sweden began an extraordinary project on the island of ‘Visingsö.’ Hundreds of thousands of oak trees were planted to secure timber for naval ships that would be built far in the future. Oak was strong, durable and widely valued for wooden shipbuilding, but…
File photo: Migrants queue to enter a refectory in Milan, Italy (Picture credit: AP) Five European Union countries have agreed on concrete steps towards establishing a “return hub” in a non-EU country for migrants who do not have legal residency, as European governments seek to speed up the return of people whose asylum applications have…
Owaisi and Akhilesh Yadav questioned the UP government over the early-morning demolition of the Saharanpur mosque NEW DELHI: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday questioned the Uttar Pradesh government over the early-morning demolition of an allegedly illegal mosque inside the Saharanpur district collectorate complex.“The fact that they cordoned off…
Medical colleges have one month to update faculty registration numbers on the attendance system. Failure to comply will result in blocked daily attendance for specified teaching staff. The National Medical Commission issued this warning after finding blank registration fields. Colleges must review and update all medical faculty and resident profiles accurately. Non-medical faculty will have…
Russia struck airports in Kyiv and Boryspil ahead of a planned US envoys’ visit, Zelenskyy said Russia launched overnight strikes on airports in Kyiv and Boryspil ahead of a planned visit by US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. Sharing the visuals of the aftermath, he linked the…
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau Of Investigation on Saturday filed a case against Zee Group founder Subhash Chandra and others for and others for allegedly defrauding LIC Housing Finance Ltd of approximately Rs 1322 crores.This came as earlier on Tuesday, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) stayed its order allowing Zee Group founder Subhash Chandra…
What began as a classroom design exercise by high-school students in New York has taken nearly a decade to become a reality. In 2017, students from North Tonawanda High School’s engineering academy were asked to imagine how a downtown park could be transformed. One of the winning ideas featured a clock tower and a landscaped…
Belgian PM Bart De Wever took a veiled dig at Trump’s tariff policy, saying barriers were being imposed “arbitrarily” and without economic logic. Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever took a veiled dig at US President Donald Trump over his decision to impose tariffs saying many voices are now calling for tariff barriers to go…