Category: Events

The Moon has been romanticised for centuries, but few people have ever tried to give someone a piece of it. In 2002, that idea became part of an extraordinary theft at Nasa’s Johnson Space Center, where an intern helped remove a safe containing Apollo lunar samples and other irreplaceable scientific material. The stolen collection included...

dormouseRepresentative image from Canva In 1902, a small population of edible dormice was released at Tring Park, a private estate in Hertfordshire, as part of a Victorian-era fascination with exotic wildlife. More than a century later, that single introduction has grown into a national problem: by 2018, the Mammal Society estimated around 23,000 edible dormice...

Zane Maloney joins Nissan Zane Maloney once watched Oliver Rowland from afar as the British driver built his career and won races. Now, the young Barbadian will line up alongside the Formula E World Champion as his teammate at Nissan, filling in Norman Nato’s seat, who left Formula E after a disappointing season. Maloney will...

The operation follows two other heroin seizures on Aug 12 and on Aug 13. JAMMU: Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) busted a major cross-border heroin trafficking cartel in Jammu, seizing 5.2 kg of heroin, and arresting the suspected mastermind and two of his accomplices.“On a tip-off on Aug 22, a vehicle was intercepted in Jammu‘s Panjtirthi...

A video shows Shahjahanpur Municipal Corporation councillors taking an oath to share civic funds. MEERUT: A purported video showing Shahjahanpur municipal corporation councillors swearing on Gangajal and Quran to divide illegally gotten revenue from the civic body “equally and fairly” among themselves has triggered both a political and social media storm.The video has several councillors...

Beauty therapist Chantelle Van Vliet wins £32,237 after tribunal finds discrimination over menopause symptoms. For Chantelle Van Vliet, asking for a little flexibility at work became the beginning of a painful legal battle. The 48-year-old beauty therapist had spent more than two decades building a career in the aesthetics industry, working at prestigious spas around...

A Hindu businessman and four members of his family have been missing from Bangladesh’s Chandpur district since August 20, with police investigating reports that he had received threats, according to local media reports.Pintu Das, who runs a shop and is also involved in lending money against gold jewellery, went missing along with his wife, two...

Mamdani says he opposes RSS event at Madison Square Garden but can’t cancel it, sparking backlash from BJP leaders and debate among NRIs WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI: New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has stirred up a row among sections of the diaspora – and between Indian political parties – by declaring that he does not support...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake was recorded in the region early Wednesday The deadly flash floods that tore through Nepal’s Himalayan border region on Wednesday may have been triggered by a massive chunk of glacier breaking away high in the mountains and crashing into a river valley below. An initial analysis by geologists and glaciologists cited...

Nepal’s geography makes the country particularly exposed to floods and landslides Nepal is once again confronting the destructive force of nature, with flash floods sweeping through communities along the Bhote Koshi and other rivers, killing dozens and leaving hundreds missing. The disaster has devastated settlements, roads, bridges and hydropower infrastructure in northern Nepal, while a...