The quote encourages us to look beyond labels and see the humanity in others. It suggests that acknowledging both our strengths and weaknesses can reduce hatred and create space for empathy, forgiveness and reconciliation. People are rarely entirely good or entirely bad. Even those we disagree with may possess qualities worth recognising, while people we…
Ten residents in Lowell, Massachusetts, are suing the state’s environmental regulator and the company behind a large data centre over an expansion that would bring the facility’s total to 27 industrial-scale diesel backup generators and 16 cooling towers. The lawsuit challenges the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s approval of the expansion and alleges that residents…
Shackled skeletons, PC: Athens Journal of History, 2021 In 2016, archaeologists digging at the Phaleron cemetery on the coast near Athens uncovered one of the most unsettling finds in Greek archaeology, a mass grave holding nearly 80 adult men, many still shackled at the wrists with iron restraints. The men, known as the Esplanada group,…
Baby holding mother’s hand (Representative Image, Canva) A complex surrogacy dispute involving California, Alaska and Texas intensified after surrogate McKenna West gave birth in Texas to a baby with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a severe and life-threatening congenital heart condition. The baby was born on August 12 and is receiving specialised medical care. According to…
Census 2027: Centre notifies 40 questions; caste enumeration to take place 1st time since Independence NEW DELHI: The Congress on Friday questioned the Centre’s approach to caste enumeration in the upcoming Census, saying the decision not to provide a pre-prepared list of castes for respondents to choose from raised “serious doubts on intent”. The party…
18-year-old Bianca Adler turns back 400m from Everest summit, returns a year later to make historyPhoto: Bianca Adler/ Instagram In the pre-dawn darkness of the world’s highest mountain, an 18-year-old from Melbourne stood on top of the world. Bianca Adler had just become the youngest Australian to summit Mount Everest, completing a feat that had…
CM Yogi Adityanath said the Congress had failed the country by prioritising political power. NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has accused the Congress of being responsible for India’s Partition and the violence that followed, arguing that the country’s history could have been different under leaders such as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel or Prime…
Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh was attacked outside a West Bengal police station. He was arrested in RG Kar victim’s ‘hurried’ cremation case. NEW DELHI: Former TMC MLA Nirmal Ghosh, arrested in connection with the alleged “hurried cremation” of the RG Kar rape-murder victim, was attacked by a mob outside Khardah Police Station in West…
Australia’s camel population is difficult to count, partly because the animals are scattered across an immense stretch of desert and semi-desert country. Estimates have placed the feral herd anywhere from about 300,000 to one million, depending on the year and the method used to survey it. Their presence is a legacy of a very different…
Surrendered women naxals walk on the ramp during a participation in a Tribal fashion show programme. NEW DELHI: For nine women from Chhattisgarh’s Naxal-affected Bastar region, the stage in Raipur offered a strikingly different kind of experience. Once part of an armed insurgency, they recently walked the ramp in handloom outfits at a National Handloom…