TCS techie Navdeep Sharma filed a lawsuit over delay in H-1B visa approval. An Indian techie, separated from his wife and children for over 18 months because of the visa refusals he’s facing in India, has sued several US officials but a district court dismissed his lawsuit and said the court understood the situation with…
For years, a quiet burial ground in northern Poland has been offering an unusual glimpse into the anxieties of people who lived centuries ago. The cemetery, near the village of Pień, is not remarkable because of its size alone, although archaeologists have now documented more than 100 burials there. What has drawn wider attention is…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope images of the Crab Nebula Nearly 1,000 years after people first saw a bright new star appear in the sky, scientists have measured how the remains of that explosion are still expanding today.In July 1054, court astronomers in China recorded a bright “guest star” near Tianguan, now known as Zeta Tauri….
Beavers are finally released at Boothby Wildland. Photograph: Jonathan Perugia/Gaia Visual for Nattergal A bold experiment in Lincolnshire (County in England) is showing that restoring British nature can become a highly profitable business, with a planned beaver colony at the centre of a multimillion-pound land transformation, reports the Guardian.Four years after conservation company Nattergal bought…
UK bans IRGC and proxy Iranian organisation ove attacks on Jewish community The UK has listed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, in a major escalation of diplomatic tensions with Tehran, as it also outlawed a proxy group behind a series of arson attacks on Jewish sites in Britain.The Home Office announced…
A strange theory has reopened one of anthropology’s most fascinating questions: could a tiny, human-like species still be hiding in the caves of Indonesia’s Flores Island? Anthropologist Gregory Forth believes that a creature described as half human and half ape may still exist somewhere in the mountain caves there, according to Popular Mechanics. The idea…
Image Credit: Facebook/ @Egypt’s State Information Service Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000-year-old tomb near Luxor, Egypt revealing fresh insights into the country’s ancient past. The tomb, discovered in the Sheikh Abd el-Qurna necropolis on Luxor’s West Bank is believed to have belonged to a senior official named Paser, who lived during the Ramesside period. The…
In the Indian state of Rajasthan, authorities have excavated a 28km artificial lake to line it with plastic and separate it from sand. Behind this lies the mission to supply water to 5 million people living in the cities of Jaisalmer and Barmer in the state. A reservoir in the Thar Desert The Thar Desert…
Erika Lee left LA for an AI startup in San Francisco (Picture source: LinkedIn/Erika Lee) A journalist who left Los Angeles to join an AI startup in San Francisco says the move completely changed the way she looks at work and technology. Erika Lee said moving to the Bay Area gave her a close view…
Pic courtesy: Daily Record Brian Hurton, a 55-year-old man from East Kilbride, Scotland, died alone after calling 999 twice, only to be told to wait for a call back. Despite informing them that he was struggling to breathe and feared he would collapse, no ambulance was sent. By the time medical help was finally dispatched,…