Singapore rebuilt a vanished 1920s lake inside a new housing estate; engineers turned it into a flood-control system and wildlife habitat | World News

Singapore has brought the memory of a vanished 1920s landmark into one of its newest housing estates, but the new Alkaff Lake is doing much more than recreating a piece of the past. Built inside Bidadari Park, the 1.8-hectare lake was inspired by the former Alkaff Gardens, which opened to the public in 1929. Today,…

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‘Proportionate response’: MEA on bulldozer action outside Pakistan high commission | India News

Debris lies scattered after authorities removed structures and queue-management barriers erected outside of the Pakistan High Commission, in New Delhi. NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Friday said the removal of unauthorised structures outside the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi was a “proportionate action in response” to Pakistan’s removal of structures in front…

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Meet Vallabh Ramesh, the 18-year-old Kentucky student who created a 3D-printable smart gel that solidifies at body temperature and could one day deliver drugs inside the body

Vallabh Ramesh’s work looks at how next generation materials could be used in drug delivery, tissue engineering and other areas of biomedical technology in the future. Science and technology has never failed to surprise humans. Think, what if you could print a material into virtually any shape, respond to temperature, and one day help deliver…

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Congress’s renewed youth outreach: How CJP has forced political parties to course correct | India News

NEW DELHI: The success of the student-powered Jantar Mantar protests seems to have forced political parties, on both sides of the divide, to return to the drawing board and redraw their strategies to woo the youth. The fact that CJP-led protests mobilised youth in large numbers against the government and forced Dharmendra Pradhan to resign…

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Who is Nathan Cofnas, the self-styled ‘race realist’ at centre of Jason Arday plagiarism row

Nathan Cofnas (L), who exposed Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s plagiarism, suspended by Ghent University. Nathan Cofnas, the American academic who brought plagiarism allegations against Jason Arday into the spotlight, has himself been suspended by Ghent University in Belgium, days after the former Cambridge professor was found dead after intense scrutiny over his academic work.Arday, a…

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Man dressed as ‘Grim Reaper’ climbs onto hospital roof with long blade, apparently trying to scare patients | World News

A bizarre incident at a hospital in North Wales left staff and visitors stunned after a 26-year-old man climbed onto the roof dressed in a black costume resembling the Grim Reaper and carried a long blade-like object. Leon Gillespie climbed above the entrance of Ysbyty Glan Clwyd hospital in St Asaph on June 6, where…

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In 1908, a Boston woman donated 140 acres around Maine’s Beehive and Bowl to stop future development; six years later 5,000 acres had been protected for what became Acadia

Acadia National Park was the first national park created from private lands gifted to the public through the efforts of conservation-minded citizens. Many of the activities surrounding the civic groups that created the park excluded women and people of colour, as per the park’s website. However, there was one woman, a longtime resident Eliza Homans,…

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‘Attention-seeking’: Nadda says Rahul’s sit-in bid to divert attention from Vande Mataram row | India News

Nadda said that the Supreme Court has already constituted a 5-member panel to probe the alleged use of excessive force by police on students NEW DELHI: Union minister JP Nadda on Friday slammed leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi for staging a sit-in outside Sansad Marg police station, claiming that the protest was…

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‘What’s going on in the country?’ Kejriwal slams BJP over attack on CJP volunteers in Rajasthan | India News

NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Friday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party and accused its “goons” of attacking Cockroach Janata Party’s volunteers while they were inspecting a government school in Rajasthan.In a social media post on X, Kejriwal alleged that the attack was carried out to stop CJP from raising its voice…

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