T’puram: Students of M G College, Thiruvananthapuram were upset after finding several trees cut down on the campus, including along the stretch between the chemistry department and the canteen, when they returned after a three-day holiday. Students said the trees provided shade and had become a popular spot for them to relax, study and spend…
Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan (ANI) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan‘s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has said that India’s Supreme Court verdict upholding the abrogation of Article 370 would “further complicate” the Kashmir issue. The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously upheld the Centre government’s decision of August 2019 to abrogate Article 370, which bestowed a special…
Rallies by UML and Royalists are expected to gather on Republic Day (Image credit: ANI) Kathmandu is bracing for two opposition rallies on Thursday, one led by the ruling CPN-UML and the other by the royalists as the nation marks Republic Day.The Communist Party of Nepal- Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) have called for a cultural…
A couple rescued two cat paintings from a skip; years later, the Louis Wain works sold for £16,000 (Image Credit: Rogers Jones Auctioneers) What looked like two unwanted paintings in a skip turned out to be worth thousands of pounds. A couple came across the two cat paintings while walking their dog and decided to…
PC: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL) Archaeologists have uncovered a rare Roman-era workshop area in western Dortmund, Germany, during an excavation of a settlement dating from the 1st to 5th centuries AD. The site contains several areas with pits, furnaces, and hearths. It also has the first pottery kiln found at the site and exceptionally well-preserved workshops…
Image: South China Morning Post Sometimes the most dangerous discoveries hide in plain sight. In central China, a 90-year-old woman spent nearly two decades using what she believed was an ordinary piece of scrap metal as a household hammer. The heavy object cracked walnuts, crushed red peppers and drove nails into wood without ever causing…
At 10, Saiyette Aima could not understand the medical language around breast cancer. But its consequences were clear to her from the get-go. Her grandmother was diagnosed with Stage 3 disease after noticing a small, pimple-like mark on her neck, she began chemotherapy and radiation and the family quickly entered a period of treatment and…
Shane and Emma Rozeveld/Image: Aslan Organics Shane and Emma Rozeveld, a Canadian couple who started growing food on two 8-by-12-foot plots, now own a 50-acre farm in Ontario.The couple started Aslan Organics in 2017 at the Yarrow Ecovillage in Chilliwack, British Columbia. They started growing for fun, but as yields grew, so did the business…
A view of the 57th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council Meeting, chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in New Delhi on Thursday NEW DELHI: Nine years after the biggest indirect reform in the country, GST Council on Friday decided on a massive procedural overhaul that will rework the way businesses operate, enable them…
Matt King trained for five and a half months before attempting the nearly 2,000-mile ride from Mexico to Canada. (Photo: Gobundance Foundation) Matt King, CEO of Gobundance, had never considered himself a cyclist. But after being inspired by a friend who participated in a charity run across Texas, King decided to take on an ambitious…
