Spread the love PC: Public Works Authority (‘Ashghal’) in Qatar Public Works Authority Ashghal has completed a pilot of cool pavement on roads in Qatar. The authority announced the work on 19 August 2019. An asphalt-cooling material was applied to up to 200 metres of vehicle lanes on Abdullah bin Jassim Street, beside Souq Waqif, and to 200 metres of...
Collector paid £25 for thrift-store jars; pair later sold for over £74,000
Spread the love A routine visit to a London charity shop turned into an extraordinary discovery when a ceramics collector spotted two small porcelain jars that would later sell for thousands of times their purchase price. According to auction house Roseberys London and reporting by CNN and Artnet News, the pair was identified as rare Chinese porcelain dating to the...
‘Ready for it’: Dipke claims police may detain him tonight or in morning
Spread the love Dipke questioned the decision to shut the park, saying the authorities could not close every location where the outfit might organise a demonstration NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke on Thursday claimed police personnel were keeping him under surveillance and said he could be detained overnight or on Friday morning, ahead of the outfit’s...
19 injured after bus collides with train in France’s Channel Tunnel
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Land shortage cripples Agriculture Ministry’s weather network rollout
Spread the love An ambitious public-private partnership project by an Agriculture Ministry body to install automatic rain gauges and automatic weather stations in States is proceeding at a crawl, with completion rates in the single digits and at least a year behind deadline. Over 96% of planned sensors are yet to be installed. The reason, companies tasked with the implementation...
John Lennon’s $725,000 Palm Beach home later sold for $36 million
Spread the love Yoko Ono and John Lennon (Image: Susan Wood) In January 1980, John Lennon and Yoko Ono purchased El Solano, a historic oceanfront mansion on Palm Beach’s South Ocean Boulevard, for $725,000. Lennon was killed in New York later that year, before the couple could complete the renovations they had planned for the Florida estate. Architectural Digest reports...
Hawaii shark tours make visitors 40% more likely to support conservation: Study
Spread the love Shark populations around the world are in rapid decline, facing mounting threats from human activities. With a third of shark species threatened with extinction, new research suggests that shark ecotourism could help turn the tide by encouraging people to take lasting action to protect them.New research from the University of Sydney found that people who participate in...
Yemen claims over 700 Houthis killed after 1,250 strikes rained within 24 hours
Spread the love The spokesperson claimed nearly 700 “militia elements” were neutralised in the attacks. Yemen armed forces on Thursday claimed they conducted 1,250 targeting operations against the Houthis within the past 24 Hours, as the Iran-backed group targeted Aden’s presidential palace and launched several strikes over Saudi regions.Armed forces spokesperson colonel Majed Al-Nuzaili said the strikes were carried out...
‘Collapse could be precipitous’: Super El Niño could push coral reefs to extinction
Spread the love File photo: A fish swims through a coral reef in the Dutch Cays of Guna Yala on Panama’s Caribbean coast (Picture credit: AP) A potentially record-breaking super El Niño could push the world’s fragile coral reefs closer to extinction as ocean temperatures soar to unprecedented levels, David Obura, chair of the UN’s expert scientific panel on biodiversity,...
From Ambani to Zelenskyy, Musk mixes business with politics
Spread the love Elon Musk is increasingly acting as an influential figure in global politics and domestic affairs. TOI Correspondent from Washington: The richest man in the world wants a promotion. Elon Musk has conquered electric cars, rockets and social media. He now appears to be auditioning for a job that does not exist on any company payroll: global power...
