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​On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Dr Martin Cooper made what is widely recognised as the first mobile phone call. Standing on a New York City street, Cooper called Joel Engel, an engineer at Bell Laboratories and his rival in the race to develop mobile communications. Cooper told Engel he was calling from a “personal,...

An elevated, high-definition view of the newly protected landscape surrounding the Mimbres River in southwestern New Mexico. Conservationists and state officials in New Mexico have completed a deal to buy nearly 11,000 acres of ecologically rich land along the Mimbres River, permanently protecting an important desert watershed and creating the state’s newest public conservation preserve....

Dolly Parton began writing songs when she was about six years old. Dolly Parton, the legendary American country singer, songwriter and actress, died on Tuesday aged 80, her family said.Parton was one of the most successful figures in country music, selling more than 100 million records worldwide and winning 11 Grammy Awards, including a Lifetime...

NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the Narendra Modi govt has set a goal to make the country illegal immigration-free in a “very short period of time” and, for this purpose, reached out to the border states over the past eight months, sharing with them its document on a quadrangular approach to...

A combination of file photo shows Bihar CM Samrat Choudhary (left), Bankipur MLA Prashan Kishor and leader of opposition Tejashwi Yadav. PATNA: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Tuesday challenged Bihar chief minister Samrat Choudhary and leader of the opposition Tejashwi Yadav to “sit for their matriculation exams together” and clear the test, news...

PC: Intentional incisions on Neolithic Obsidian arrowheads from Central Anatolia: A techno-functional and iconographic approach For nearly nine thousand years, a set of Anatolian arrowheads has been quietly guarding a secret. Archaeologists working at Tepecik-Ciftlik, a Neolithic settlement in Cappadocia, central Turkey, have identified eleven newly recognised obsidian points bearing deliberate, hand-cut incisions, bringing the...

Cole Tucker and wife Vanessa Hudgens combined net worth in 2026: Inside MLB earnings, endorsements, investments, family life and luxury lifestyle (Image via Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty) The pair, Cole Tucker and Vanessa Hudgens, are a high-profile marriage between sports and entertainment. The two come from very different professional backgrounds. Tucker played in Major League Baseball for...

Narasamamba with her two daughters — onea doctor and the other an immigration lawyer. RAJAHMUNDRY: For nearly three decades, Venkata Narasamamba Vasamsetty built a life in the United States as a teacher, mother, and grandmother.Her immigration case was terminated by a judge in May, leaving her a lawful permanent resident. Yet on Aug 11, she...

Audit records identified more than $15 million in funding linked to the Israeli Ministry of Defense The Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli defence companies have channelled millions of dollars into weapons-related research at US universities, much of it through funding arrangements that were not consistently disclosed in federal databases, according to an investigation by...

Prarthana Thombare and Vaishnavi Adkar NEW DELHI: The row over India’s tennis squad for the 2026 Asian Games intensified on Tuesday after the All India Tennis Association (AITA) categorically rejected claims that it failed to submit the names of excluded players to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA).The national federation denied a claim made by Sports...