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Only a few US states have built systems to collect and recycle mattresses. (Representational photo- Getty images) A mattress recycling programme in United States has recovered about 650 million pounds of materials from more than 17 million discarded mattresses, according to Product Stewardship Institute (PSI).Around 50,000 mattresses are discarded every day in the US, adding...

How LeBron James turned childhood pain into a $41 million opportunity for young students with big dreams Image via: Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/ AP LeBron James has won four NBA titles and built one of the greatest careers in basketball history. But this story has little to do with trophies. It begins with a boy in...

Quote of the Day by Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was one of the few writers who could so powerfully capture the joys, struggles and contradictions of human life. Many have ranked Dickens as one of the greatest novelists in the English language . He revolutionised literature by putting ordinary people in the spotlight . Nearly...

Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School ran inside Forest City, a $100 billion Chinese-built ghost development in Malaysia’s Johor, until authorities ordered it shut. Balaji Srinivasan spent two years trying to prove that a country could be launched the way a startup is—community first, territory later. Last week, a local council in southern Malaysia ended the experiment...

Dozens killed in PoK as protesters treating gunshot wounds in makeshift clinics avoid hospitals for fear of arrest A protest movement in PoK has escalated into deadly clashes between security forces and demonstrators, with dozens of people reportedly killed across the region in recent weeks, the BBC reported.The protests have been led by the Joint...

Prashant Kishor celebrates after winning the Bankipur Assembly bypoll (Image credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor has finally found a seat for his “school bag” in Bihar. The election strategist-turned-politician has flipped the Bankipur assembly seat, an unassailable bastion of the BJP for the last 30 years. Before today’s shock...

Jan Suraj party workers celebrated the victory of Prashant Kishor in Bankipur assembly byelection results (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: Nearly nine months after Jan Suraaj failed to open its account in the 2025 Bihar assembly elections, party founder Prashant Kishor on Monday secured his first electoral victory. He won the high-profile Bankipur bypoll, giving the fledgling...

Michael Phelps net worth in 2026: Inside the Olympic legend’s multi-million-dollar fortune, endorsements and more (via Getty Images) Michael Phelps has already achieved everything a swimmer could dream of. He is the most decorated Olympian in history, with a record 28 Olympic medals, including 23 golds. But life after retirement has been just as successful....

The Silicon Valley is seeing a ‘talent’ war for artificial intelligence (AI) talent with companies reportedly offering up to eight-figure compensation packages. But if a new report is to be believed, the high salary is no longer enough to keep elite engineers from walking out the door. Recently, multiple top researchers moved between major labs...