Emergency officials have urged residents living near rivers to move to higher ground. Texas is once again battling life-threatening flooding as relentless rainfall triggered flash flood emergencies across parts of the Hill Country and South Texas early Thursday, forcing evacuations, prompting dozens of water rescues, and reviving painful memories of last year’s catastrophic floods.Emergency officials…
PC: National History Museum For more than a century, amber has helped scientists reconstruct vanished worlds by preserving tiny fragments of life that would otherwise have disappeared. Insects trapped inside these golden fossilised resins have revealed details about ancient forests across several continents, but South America remained a missing piece in that record. That changed…
Actor Sohail Khan who is currently on the show ‘Alliance’ recently made an emotional and personal revelation about his childhood. Sohail said that he was sexually harassed as a child and has been quiet about it for years. He spoke about the incident while discussing his firm opposition to ragging and bullying, explaining that it…
Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘Sheesh Mahal’ NEW DELHI: The BJP-led Delhi government, which plans to convert former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal‘s “Sheesh Mahal” into a state guest house, may rope in a private hospitality firm to operate and maintain the bungalow, minister Parvesh Sahib Singh said on Thursday.Also Read | Ex-Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal’s ‘Sheesh Mahal’ may…
Reese Witherspoon opens up about reuniting with Alanna Ubach on ‘Lucky’, years after working together on ‘Legally Blonde’. Reese Witherspoon recently opened up about how she and her old-time co-star Alanna Ubach with whom she has shared the screen on multiple occasions. Witherspoon and Alanna previously worked together on the famed ‘Legally Blonde’ and ‘Freeway.’…
Arvind Kejriwal joins Sonam Wangchuk at Jantar Mantar protest (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Former Delhi chief minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday threw his weight behind educator and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk‘s indefinite hunger strike over the NEET fiasco, joining him at New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and sharing the stage with Wangchuk…
TMC MPs Sagarika Ghose, Derek O’Brien, and Saket Gokhale NEW DELHI: Derek O’Brien, Rajya Sabha MP of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) faction, on Thursday accused the Election Commission (ECI) of “working like a branch office” of the BJP.His remarks came over the extensions granted by the poll body to the rebel TMC faction…
Image Credit: Raphael Zufferey Nature has given us amphibians in various forms, from frogs to other multi-environment creatures, yet few things transcend the different domains of Earth as remarkably as the diving birds that inspired the MIT and EPFL researchers. For so long, scientists have long dreamt of a machine that can fly through the…
Every monsoon, the pattern repeats across cities.Roads disappear under water, traffic comes to a standstill, trains are delayed and water enters residential colonies, offices, parks, schools and hospitals. Potholes become difficult to spot, drains overflow and even a few hours of heavy rain can disrupt daily life.Extreme rainfall and inadequate drainage are often blamed. But…
Vaibhav Bhaskar scored so high that authrotities changed the grading system. An Indian-origin student has broken the record of high school grade in Florida with an 11.99 GPA, but this impossible achievement shifted the focus of the administrators to the unhealthy race that they created, bogging down students with pressure. 17-year-old Vaibhav Bhaskar graduated from…