Before Shasta Lake covered the landscape of northern California, the Sacramento River valley was home to a mining town shaped by copper, railroads and the industries that followed them.Its name was Kennett; the town grew from a railroad construction camp into an important mining community in Shasta County. Copper mines helped drive its economy, while…
When scientists have a will, there is always a way. In a shocking yet successful project, leftover hair from haircuts that is not suitable for wigs and would have gone to waste is now being used to prevent oil and other pollutants from getting into the water and the trees.In Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay,…
Ram Gopal Varma announces Police Company with Harshvardhan Rane as Daya Nayak inspired by Mumbai’s encounter squad (Image Credits Twitter and Instagram) Veteran filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is all set to turn his gaze back to the dark alleys of the Mumbai underworld to make a film about an establishment that’s “more dangerous” than his…
Tamil Nadu assembly Vijay government moves resolution to abolish NEET The Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution urging the Union government to scrap the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), with the DMK, AIADMK, Left parties and PMK supporting the move. The lone BJP MLA staged a walkout during the proceedings.Moving the…
Irfan Pathan and Kumar Sangakkara NEW DELHI: Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan has revisited a little-known heated exchange with Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara during the 2005 Test in Delhi, revealing how an argument over a changed ball escalated into personal sledging before the two eventually put the incident behind them and became friends.Pathan was…
In August 1868, the Sun briefly became a laboratory for astronomers gathered in India to watch a total solar eclipse. Among them was the French astronomer Pierre Jules Janssen, who turned a spectroscope towards the bright prominences rising around the eclipsed solar disc. Their light contained a yellow spectral line that seemed to sit close…
A critically endangered female red handfish, Thymichthys politus. (Photo: Joel Sartore) For 20 years, photographer Joel Sartore has been building a huge visual record of the world’s animals. His project, called the Photo Ark, has now reached another major milestone with its 18,000th species- the critically endangered red handfish. The milestone photo was announced by…
As ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’ completes 20 years, Karan Johar has revisited the intense reactions to the Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji-starrer. The filmmaker recalled being confronted by an angry woman after a preview screening and acknowledged the film’s flaws, including its excessive scale and some unnecessary songs, while maintaining that its emotional core…
SC seeks status of appeals against voter deletions before tribunals NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission to furnish details of appeals decided and pending before appellate tribunals set up to hear pleas against voter deletions during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal.A bench comprising Chief Justice…
Celeste Rivas Hernandez Murder Case A teenage girl who says she had an online friendship with D4vd is revisiting one conversation she once considered harmless. The alleged joke involved the singer and his fictional alter-ego cutting off her arms. Years later, as D4vd faces trial over the death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, that memory has…