Top 5 firms lose Rs 1 lakh crore in market value; TCS, Reliance suffer biggest hit
Dalal Street ended last week in the red, with five of India’s 10 most valued firms losing nearly Rs 1…
Bangladesh PM’s proposed India visit conditional on Hasina extradition, officials say
Bangladesh has said PM’s proposed visit to India will depend on the extradition of Sheikh Hasina, urging New Delhi to…
Virginia installed 46 water-control structures across 150 miles of old drainage ditches to re-wet a swamp; restored peat now traps 200,000 metric tons of carbon a year
The Fish and Wildlife Service restored peat wetlands at Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge North Carolina’s coastal peatlands are…
How 3 members of England’s 1939 Chess Olympiad team became wartime codebreakers during WWII
The Grandmaster View by India’s 93rd GM Aarav Dengla On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. On the other side…
Over 100 arrested in Morocco over fresh Ceuta migrant crossing attempt
Around 111 people arrested in Morocco for attempting another border crossing into Ceuta Moroccan authorities arrested at least 111 people…
At 20, Finnish immigrant Maggie Walz arrived in Michigan with just $7; in 1903 she claimed 160 acres on a Lake Huron island and the colony she founded grew to five settlements with around 1,000 people
Maggie Walz Photo credit: National Park Service Born Margareeta Johanna Konttra Niiranen in Tornio, Finland, in 1861, Maggie Walz came…
CM Suvendu Adhikari vows probe into possible ‘threat’ angle
“Will probe if anyone threatened him”, CM Suvendu said. NEW DELHI: West Begal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari said he would…
In 1958, Mahala Ashley Dickerson visited Alaska on vacation and decided to move there; after claiming 160 acres, she became the territory’s first Black homesteader and months later its first Black lawyer
Dickerson had built a career that included several notable firsts. (Anchorage museum photo) American lawyer and civil rights advocate Mahala…
These forms will be rejected starting September 15
USCIS says no grace period will be available for Form I-539 and Form I-765 change The US Citizenship and Immigration…
In 1948, scientists left a giant fossil on an Arctic island because they could not carry it; 78 years later it became a record-size new predator
The fossil of Arctobatrachus urdensis as documented in 1948 (A–C), its skull as it appears today (D), and a reconstructed…