India’s net direct tax collections jumped 23.09% to Rs 8.11 lakh crore by August 10, 2026, up from Rs 6.59 lakh crore in the same period last year, data released by the income tax department showed.The latest figures put the increase in net tax receipts at Rs 1.52 lakh crore over the comparable period of…
US cop hugs man battling mental health crisis. A Metro Nashville police lieutenant is being credited with saving a man’s life after talking him out of jumping from a bridge over the Cumberland River. The tense encounter on the Victory Memorial Bridge ended with the man stepping away from the ledge and embracing the officer…
Quote of the day by Agatha Christie (Image: Wikipedia) Life often involves genuine risk, but not every risk is actually worth taking. Some decisions place someone in a situation where the possible consequences were obvious from the very beginning. Agatha Christie captured that exact idea in one vivid image. “If you place your head in…
Chud The Builder, whose real name is Dalton Eatherly, has been released from a Tennessee jail after spending about two months behind bars. The streamer was released from Montgomery County Jail on Monday morning after posting a $1 million bond. According to a representative for the Montgomery County Circuit Criminal Court, 10 bail bond services…
Learning something from a finished textbook can give us a clear answer, but it does not always show us how that answer came to be. James Clerk Maxwell believed that students could gain something deeper by returning to the original work of the scientists who first developed an idea. In his words, “It is of…
Light pollution in Rio beach at night. Image Credit: P.bajelan/Wikipedia The artificial glow of the night sky is commonly known as skyglow, and it represents a growing form of light pollution that is changing the way humans view the natural world. Researchers have been tracking this phenomenon for a long time using satellite technology, but…
Representative Image of three ancient Assyrian kings emerging from obscurity amid cuneiform tablets (AI-generated image) For nearly a century, historians have relied on the Assyrian King List as the authoritative record of who ruled the ancient Assyrian Empire, especially during its later centuries. Now, new research suggests that record was never as complete or impartial…
Photo courtesy: The Better India A little girl was playing among women inmates inside Bilaspur Central Jail when a visiting district collector noticed her. For this child, the world had unusually high walls.The 6-year-old, identified as Khushi, had spent her young life inside the prison. Her father was serving a long sentence in jail, while…
Golden Emerald Cross From 16th‑Century Shipwreck, PC: Teddy Tucker In 1955, a Bermudian diver named Teddy Tucker pulled a gold cross studded with seven emeralds from the wreck of a sixteenth-century Spanish galleon resting in the reefs off Bermuda. It would go on to be called one of the most valuable single objects ever recovered…
Mexican national Erik Santana-Garcia. A Mexican national who had been deported from the US multiple times before illegally reentering the country has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting two minors, the US Department of Justice said.Erik Santana-Garcia, 34, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced on July 30 to 20…
