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For nearly a year, Delaram Pouyabahar planned her next academic step around a postdoctoral position…
People love celebrating the star player, the standout entrepreneur, the individual talent who seems to carry a whole team on their back. Travis Kelce, the NFL tight end, pushed back on that picture directly. “If you don’t care about the guy next to you, one, you’re a terrible teammate,” he said. “Two, you’re never gonna…
Being an Indian in the United States is no longer a point of diversity and celebration. Instead, openly revealing your Indian identity might get you attacked on the streets and targeted online. This isn’t just a hypothesis, but a proven statement. A 2026 survey by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace examined the attitudes of…
Most 11-year-olds spend their free time playing sports, video games or hanging out with friends. Nehemiah Turner chose something entirely different. The Florida boy has become the first child to complete more than 100 volunteer hours in the Jacksonville Humane Society’s Pawsitive Reading programme, where children read aloud to shelter dogs and cats waiting for…
Saudi Arabia has restored one million hectares of degraded land and planted more than 159 million trees, marking one of the biggest milestones under the Saudi Green Initiative since it began in 2021. The programme, which now aims to rehabilitate 40 million hectares and plant 10 billion trees across the kingdom, has grown restored land…
In 1964, American engineers at the Ralph M Parsons Corporation drew up one of the most ambitious infrastructure plans in history, a scheme called the North American Water and Power Alliance, or Nawapa. The idea was to capture excess river water from Alaska and northwestern Canada and send it south through the Rocky Mountain Trench,…
America’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, has become the unlikely centre of one of the most extraordinary discoveries in recent US history. As years of relentless drought caused water levels to plunge to record lows, the shrinking shoreline began revealing secrets that had remained hidden beneath the surface for decades. Human remains, abandoned boats, military relics…
A 29-foot-tall limestone statue of Jesus sits atop Mount Cristo Rey in Lourdes Castanon, Mexico. More than 40,000 pilgrims from around the world journey to the sacred site annually where Texas, New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua meet. The statue has crowned the summit of the peak since 1939, when it was carved…
Dave Bautista (Image: Wikipedia) Success stories tend to look simple from the outside. People see the awards, the fame, the money, but rarely the years of struggle and rejection that came first. Dave Bautista, the actor and former professional wrestler, is open about exactly that gap. “I’m a poor kid from the streets,” he said….
Millions of people across the world have spent years watching bald eagle pair Jackie and Shadow build their nest, lay eggs, raise chicks and endure harsh winters through a 24/7 livestream in California’s Big Bear Valley. What began as a simple wildlife camera has now become the driving force behind one of the biggest conservation…
Indian-origin US Congressmen Shri Thanedar. (AP Photo) Indian-origin US Congressmen Shri Thanedar and Raja Krishnamoorthi vowed to push back against anti-India and anti-immigrant hatred in the United States, urging Indian-Americans to play a bigger role in public life by contesting elections at all levels.The Democratic lawmakers made the remarks during an event in Washington marking…