Malaki Conteh. Image Credit: Tony Kershaw A 13-year-old boy living in Surrey, England began selling plants outside his father’s office at the age of 6, and has now turned that early venture into a business that helps pay his £4,000-a-term school fees. ‘Malaki Conteh’ first started selling to raise money for singing lessons because he…
ABVP urged DU to construct new hostels and expand existing capacity NEW DELHI: Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) on Tuesday demanded safety audits of all paying guest accommodations in student-dominated areas and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) commissioner’s resignation, linking the Satya Niketan tragedy to alleged administrative lapses and Delhi University’s shortage of hostels.The…
A panel of the mosaic depicts a dog named Ocean. Around 1,800 years ago, a Roman household in what is now Turkey decorated the floor of its home with a detailed mosaic showing animals and mythological figures. Among them were a cat and a dog whose names were written beside their images. Archaeologists have now…
This behaviour has often been described as elephants visiting a “grave” or mourning their dead. But scientists say the reality is more complicated. An elephant herd comes across the remains of another elephant. Instead of simply walking past, some animals slow down, approach the bones, touch them with their trunks and sniff them. In some…
Child rights body had sought Meta’s explanation after taking suo motu cognisance of a BBC Eye report. NEW DELHI: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has summoned Meta India’s managing director and head of public policy for a hearing on Wednesday, September 9, over allegations concerning advertisements linked to Child Sexual Exploitative…
Pakistan captain Babar Azam and PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi (Agency Image) Pakistan captain Babar Azam has broken his silence on the Pakistan Cricket Board’s sweeping mid-series shake-up, revealing that he was not consulted before seven players were dropped and changes were made to the coaching setup.The PCB made the drastic changes after Pakistan suffered back-to-back…
Delhi hotels run out of rooms NEW DELHI: As India prepares to host the 18th BRICS Leaders’ Summit, luxury hotels in the national capital are facing a sharp squeeze in room availability, with tariffs at some marquee properties climbing beyond Rs 2 lakh a night ahead of the September 12-13 gathering.The summit, which brings leaders…
Becoming a father has changed the way Pete Davidson looks at the loss of his own dad. Pete’s dad Scott Matthew Davidson, was a New York City firefighter with Ladder Company 118 in Brooklyn Heights. On September 11, 2001, he was at the World Trade Center after the attacks and was killed while helping evacuate…
Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay NEW DELHI: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief and Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Tuesday clarified that a gesture he made during his Assembly speech was inadvertent and “not in any way intentional” . This comes as DMK accused him of attempting to body-shame former chief…
Max Planck, the German physicist whose work helped lay the foundation for quantum theory, believed that science was ultimately a search for deeper and more fundamental truths. His reflections on scientific discovery reveal how strongly he valued the pursuit of universal principles rather than simply solving individual problems. In his Scientific Autobiography, Planck wrote about…