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Indian conservationists Parveen Shaikh and Barkha Subba have won the prestigious Whitley Awards 2026, widely known as the ‘Green Oscars’, for their efforts to protect endangered species and fragile ecosystems in India. The award, presented by the UK-based Whitley Fund for Nature, honours grassroots conservation leaders from the Global South. Shaikh was recognised for saving…

Indian-origin tech leader in Canada says that before blaming H-1Bs, Americans should ask the corporations why they hire H-1Bs. An Indian-origin founder in Canada commented on the rampant targeting of H-1B visa holders in the US and explained that the situation is more complex than how MAGA portrays it. Vijayan Swaminathan, an Indian-origin tech leader…

A Google software engineer has been arrested in US after allegedly using confidential company data to place prediction bets that earned him more than $1 million.Michele Spagnuolo, an Italian citizen who worked at Google, used internal search trend information from the company to place bets on the prediction platform Polymarket involving singer D4vd, who is…

A shocking new case involving streamer and singer D4vd has caught attention online after a Google employee was arrested for allegedly using secret company data to make money from online bets. Federal prosecutors say the employee used private Google search information to place bets on prediction website Polymarket. The bets were connected to D4vd becoming…

Every drop of blood in your body is doing something ancient. It is carrying oxygen, fighting infections, clotting wounds, and patrolling for threats, a set of tasks so fundamental to animal life that nearly every creature with a backbone does some version of the same thing. But where did blood cells come from in the…

In a remote stretch of Ethiopia’s Afar Rift, something quietly unsettling has begun to emerge from the ground. Fragments of bone, scattered within ancient sediments, are being studied for what they might represent rather than what they obviously are. Among them are remains attributed to early Homo sapiens, dated to around 100,000 years ago, and…

US CEO says Indians are good at unnecessary paperwork which Americans hate. Former US Merchant Marine captain John Konrad, the CEO of gCaptain, shared his experience of working in India and with Indians and said hardworking Indians or visa holders are not the problem. He said there is no doubt that Indians are hardworking but…

Albert Bandura (Image: Wikipedia) Some quotes remain relevant because human nature rarely changes as much as people think it does. Societies evolve. Technology changes rapidly. Entire industries disappear and new ones emerge. Yet human behaviour often repeats the same patterns generation after generation, especially when responsibility becomes shared among large groups of people. That is…

A Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer has stirred a row after the party’s official X account insulted White House adviser Stephen Miller.The controversy began when the Democrats’ official account replied to one of Miller’s posts with the words: “shut up you ugly f***.” Because the message came from the national party’s verified account, rather than…

New forensic evidence found in the case of Mamta Kafle Bhatt, who disappeared in 2024 in Virginia. A nurse and a mother, Mamta Kafle Bhatt of Virginia, disappeared into thin air in 2024 and while her husband Naresh Bhatt was accused of killing her and then concealing her body, the body was never found. Two…