Afghan General Haibatullah Alizai. Afghan General Haibatullah Alizai, who led a last-ditch effort to resist the Taliban takeover in 2021, now drives an Uber in Washington DC after being granted asylum in the US.In an interview with CBS’ Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Alizai spoke about his final days in Afghanistan, his evacuation by…
TORONTO: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat stated that India became a “Vishwaguru” (world teacher) through its selfless service to humanity rather than by acting as a “Mahashakti” (superpower), emphasising that the country’s civilisational DNA is rooted in universal friendship, refuge, and respect for diversity.Addressing the “Hindu Vishwa Bandhu – Embrace the World in…
Children and teens in Ladera Ranch, California, are getting a rare bone cancer at a higher rate than the national average. (Photo: LA Times) Ladera Ranch is a 4,000-acre planned community in southern Orange County, California. As per the 2020 census, this ranch had a population of 26,170. The residents of the ranch have now…
He started dry farming in California but moved to a 9.6-acre site near Veneta, Oregon, in 2007 Someone has rightly said that ‘Necessity is the mother of invention’. Over decades, weather patterns became less predictable across the Pacific Northwest, and farmers contended with hotter temperatures, drought and shrinking snowmelt that strained water supplies. It was…
Her mother died when she was 11, which changed her childhood significantly. She grew up helping her father with jobs around the family farm, before finding work mucking out horse stables at an equestrian facility at Drouin West when she was about 14 or 15. 19-year-old Olivia Shone has achieved what many Australians spend decades…
YouTuber Brawadis, whose real name is Brandon Awadis, has confirmed that he is back together with his ex-girlfriend Jasmine. The couple shared the news in a new YouTube video after months of being apart. Their relationship had faced a major problem in the past when Jasmine admitted that she had cheated on Brawadis. The two…
File photo: Tourists pose in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy (Picture credit: AP) Italy’s population is projected to shrink by almost 4 million people by 2050, with a rapidly ageing population posing fresh challenges for the country’s economy and welfare system, according to new projections released by the national statistics bureau ISTAT…
PM Modi during his visit to meet naval personnel aboard INS Vikrant (left); Rahul Gandhi during ‘Chhattron ki Goonj’ programme (right) From Indira Gandhi’s sarees to Narendra Modi’s carefully curated bandhgalas, from Rajiv Gandhi’s sneakers and sunglasses to the Thackerays’ colour-coded political imagery, what Indian politicians wear has often been more than a question of…
MEA said that the Indus Water Treaty will remain in abeyance NEW DELHI: Ministry of external affairs on Monday categorically rejected a ruling by World Bank-constituted Court of Arbitration on Indus Water Treaty, terming it an “illegally constituted” organisation.In a statement, MEA said that New Delhi’s decision to put the water treaty with Pakistan in…
Laurance Rockefeller on St. John at Caneel Bay (Image Credit: National Park Service) What if one of America’s most beautiful national parks began with a wealthy conservationist simply looking at an undeveloped island from a boat? In 1952, Laurance Rockefeller sailed past St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands and was struck by its untouched…