Indian family meets tragic accident in New Mexico, US. Murali Avala, an Indian man, reached out to the community in the US from his hospital bed after his family met a tragedy while they were traveling to White Sands National Park, New Mexico. A pickup truck ran over her brother, Purna Gopi Avala, an NRI…
Indian student Komalpreet Kaur dies in Perth, Australia, in a road accident. A 19-year-old Indian student, Komalpreet Kaur, died in Perth, Australia, after she was struck by a car and got trapped under the car. The accident took place last Saturday at about 11.30 pm at the Bentley Plaza car park on Albany Highway, near…
British-Iranian journalist Pouria Zeraati A British court on Monday heard explosive allegations that the Iranian state used Romanian nationals as “proxies” to carry out a knife attack on a London-based Iranian journalist linked to opposition broadcaster Iran International.According to news agency Reuters, Pouria Zeraati, a British-Iranian journalist working for the Persian-language channel critical of Tehran,…
Cain Clark and Caleb Velasquez, teen shooters of San Diego mosque, died from self-inflicted wounds. 17-year-old Cain Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Velasquez have been identified as the shooters who went on a rampage outside a San Diego mosque Monday. Both of them died from self-inflicted wounds. According to reports, Clark was a standout wrestler and…
A woman who lived around 3,500 years ago in Bronze Age Greece has come back into public view in a very unusual way. Not through writing or statues, but through a digital facial reconstruction created by artist Juanjo Ortega G. The image is based on earlier archaeological reconstructions and gives a surprisingly human look at…
For a brief moment in medieval England, a poor boy stood at the centre of a royal rebellion and wore a crown meant for kings. Lambert Simnel was only around 10 years old when Yorkist supporters presented him as a claimant to the English throne during the turbulent years after the Wars of the Roses….
When Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado returned to his family land in Brazil during the 1990s, he reportedly found a devastated landscape instead of the lush forest he remembered from childhood. Years of deforestation, cattle grazing and soil degradation had stripped the land of wildlife, water and greenery. Rivers had dried up and much of the…
What Steve Jobs understood about messy careers that most people miss? Image credit – Wikimedia Almost twenty years since Steve Jobs’ famous speech at Stanford University’s graduation ceremony, one section of that speech has remained memorable for people across the globe who are students, professionals, or entrepreneurs. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you…
In the mid-sixth century, a devastating disease swept across the Byzantine world and changed the course of entire cities. The outbreak, now known as the Plague of Justinian, is often described in historical records, but new archaeological findings from Jerash are making the story feel far more real and human. Researchers studying a mass grave…
Earthquake-resistant technology may soon become simpler, cheaper and far more reliable thanks to a newly patented steel sphere cylinder developed by researchers at the University of Sharjah. The passive seismic damping device, created by civil engineering professor Moussa Leblouba, uses friction generated by steel balls inside a hollow cylinder to absorb earthquake vibrations in buildings,…