IIT Kharagpur assessment flags weak, highly plastic soil and drainage issues as key causes of premature failures on the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway. NEW DELHI: Use of weak and highly plastic soil beneath the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway appears to be one of the main reasons for premature failures (slippage) on one of its stretches, an expert assessment has…
Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis pleads not guilty as Tupac Shakur murder trial opens in Las Vegas. The trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the former street gang leader accused of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, begins Monday in Las Vegas, nearly three decades after the hip-hop star was shot.Davis, 63, faces one…
New Delhi: There was a time when Ashmita Chaliha could only watch while fellow players were training, travelling and discussing their next tournaments.The Assam shuttler was confined to rehabilitation for a career-threatening medial meniscus tear in her right knee that she sustained during the 2024 Korea Open in Aug. She was repeating the same exercises…
Zahra Billoo, CAIR official, called the lawsuit misguided and said the participation of the students in that field trip was voluntary. Two Jewish parents, three former Jewish students, a Hindu parent and a Zoroastrian parent have sued Palo Alto Unified School District and Palo Alto High School principal Brent Kline after the students were encouraged…
In 2013, Chinese man Hu Songwen attracted international attention after reports revealed that he had been using a homemade haemodialysis machine for about 13 years after the cost of hospital treatment exhausted his family’s savings. Hu was diagnosed with uraemia in 1993 while studying at the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, after doctors found that both…
Team India (Pic credit: Hockey India) NEW DELHI: India head coach Craig Fulton has urged his side to show greater composure and sharpen their defensive discipline against Pakistan after England exposed their weaknesses in a 2-4 defeat in their second Pool D match of the Hockey World Cup on Monday.India produced a strong first half…
By 2022, researchers had documented only nine Poweshiek skipperlings in the entire United States On a summer day in Michigan, a tiny Poweshiek skipperling butterfly takes flight over a restored prairie. The butterfly is smaller than a quarter, but its return marks a major change for a species once feared to be close to extinction.Researchers…
David and Victoria Beckham’s £6.15 million Cotswolds home gets the green light for ‘Blackpool-style’ lake illuminations, a hot tub and firepit despite objections from a critic based in Australia. (Photo: Instagram/Alamy) David and Victoria Beckham have secured planning permission to install extensive lighting around a lake at their £6.15 million Cotswolds home, despite objections from…
Saiman Shetty, an ex-Tesla engineer, shared how he did not wait for H-1B and took the EB-1A path and now is a US citizen in 13 years. When Saiman Shetty announced on social media that he lost his Green Card, several commentators celebrated without understanding the clickbait. In a video, ahead of the Indian Independence…
India coach Sjoerd Marijne A day after the Indian women’s hockey team held China to a 2-2 draw in their World Cup opener at Wagener Stadium in Amstelveen, Netherlands, coach Sjoerd Marijne questioned the interpretation of the penalty-stroke rule by the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH) Rules Committee.Marijne took to social media to share footage of…