The William Haskell House. Photo credit: instagram/@thewilliamhaskellhouse A rare piece of early American history has hit the real estate market. The William Haskell House, one of the oldest surviving homes in the United States, is up for sale in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with an asking price of $1.25 million, offering buyers the chance to own a…
Corals (Representative image) Human activity is changing coral reefs in ways that go far beyond what we can see on the surface. A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shows that the chemicals we release into the environment are actually becoming part of coral tissue itself, and weakening corals’…
File photo: A Chinese warship (Picture credit: AP) China conducted a rare live-fire naval exercise inside what Japan claims as its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) near the remote Pacific island of Okinotorishima, prompting Tokyo to lodge a diplomatic protest with Beijing.According to Japan’s defence ministry, it was the first time a foreign navy had carried…
AI generated image used for representational purpose NEW DELHI: The Madhya Pradesh high court has issued notice to the state government on a plea alleging that nearly 1,900 government schools in the state are running without a single teacher.A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Vivek Rusia and Justice Pradeep Mittal took up the case…
NEW DELHI: Congress leaders, including Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, party general secretary KC Venugopal and several other MPs, staged a protest at Lok Kalyan Marg in Delhi on Tuesday, demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation.The demonstration comes amid the ongoing political…
Russia on Tuesday said it is “in touch” with its partners in New Delhi after four Indians were killed on board a merchant vessel off the coast of Ukraine.This comes after Kyiv claimed that Russia hit the Golden Leo—a Guinea-Bissau-flagged ship manned by a crew from India and Syria—with three cruise missiles on Sunday, killing…
Narendra Modi; Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the prime minister “turned his car around and drove away” as a section of CJP protesters neared the Parliament complex during their march a day earlier.“You saw what happened in…
Woodhouse’s toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii) (Representational photo, Instagram/Tom Mathies) A rare Woodhouse’s toad has returned to the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas for the first time in nearly 65 years, giving conservationists fresh hope that wildlife is returning to a restored habitat where the species once lived naturally.The male toad was captured on a trail camera…
Leonardo DiCaprio’s reported real estate portfolio spans from the United States to Belize (Photo: AP). Oscar-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio has built more than an iconic Hollywood career. Alongside blockbuster films, the actor has quietly assembled an impressive real estate portfolio that stretches from the bustling streets of New York City to the hills of Los…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged opposition parties in West Bengal to bury their differences and unite against the Bharatiya Janata Party.Addressing the annual July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally organised near Birla Planetarium, Mamata also termed the leaders who defected from the TMC as “traitors”, saying they would never be allowed…
