Akshaye Khanna set to return in ‘Mahakali’; ‘Dhurandhar’ star to appear as Shukracharya; first glimpse arrives on August 24 |

Akshaye Khanna set to return in ‘Mahakali’; ‘Dhurandhar’ star to appear as Shukracharya. Akshaye Khanna is gearing up for a striking new role in ‘Mahakali’. The actor will reportedly portray Shukracharya in the upcoming movie from the Prasanth Varma Cinematic Universe.The character is considered a prominent figure in Indian mythology. Shukracharya is traditionally described as…

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A British duke sent six Himalayan tahr to New Zealand in 1904; five survived the voyage, and their descendants later grew into tens of thousands that now damage fragile alpine ecosystems

The Himalayan tahr is a large, shaggy mountain ungulate native to the Himalayas that has become an invasive species in New Zealand. In 1904, a gift from a British aristocrat brought a handful of shaggy mountain goats to the remote peaks of New Zealand’s South Island. The aim was to build up big game stocks…

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‘We are Gen-Z, won’t tolerate this nonsense’: Tourist’s rant at Kargil checkpoint goes viral | Srinagar News

A viral video shows a tourist arguing with security personnel at a Kargil checkpoint SRINAGAR: A viral video shows a female tourist shouting, “We are Gen-Z and we won’t tolerate this nonsense” from Minimarg checkpoint in Kargil, Ladakh.According to police sources, the incident took place July 25, when the movement of the defense minister and…

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As US farmers reject multimillion-dollar AI data-centre offers, a Missouri farmer is doing the opposite and inviting developers to buy his land

Across the US there are two voices rising out of the ordinary, one propagating the AI boom as the natural future of the world, and the other resisting it, calling it the doom that humans are bringing upon themselves. In numerous states, people have carried out rallies and protests, even formulating laws that prohibit the…

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Homeless but not broken: Displaced by war, Yevheniia Kantemyr and Polina Buhrova keep Ukraine’s flag flying high | Badminton News

Ukraine’s Yevheniia Kantemyr and Polina Buhrova (Instagram | Polina Buhrova) NEW DELHI: Yevheniia Kantemyr was 16 and nursing a knee injury when Russian bombs rained down on her native city of Kharkiv in Ukraine. As the situation went from bad to worse, many in this city of 1.42 million inhabitants were forced to flee, including…

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‘Reels govt has no real concern for Tamil people’: AIADMK protests TN govt’s inaction on Tamil fisherman killed in Saudi pirate attack, walks out of assembly | Coimbatore News

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami speaks to reporters outside Tamil Nadu assembly on Wednesday. Photo by B A Raju CHENNAI: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Wednesday slammed treasury bench legislators for thumping their desks and laughing while his party walked out of the assembly to protest what he said the House’s failure…

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In 1992, Congress backed a plan to restore Florida’s Kissimmee River after decades of flood control. 28 years later, wetlands and wildlife were returning | World News

For much of its history, Florida’s Kissimmee River did not run in a straight line. It wandered through central Florida, spreading across a broad floodplain that filled with water during the rainy season. That slow, shifting landscape supported fish, wetland plants and large numbers of birds. Then, in the 1960s, the river was reshaped into…

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