Imagine standing on a road in Germany in 1886. There are no traffic lights, no petrol pumps, no number plates, no driving schools and certainly no cars. The roads belong to horses, carts and pedestrians. Then, one day, something strange appears.
The Madhya Pradesh School Education Department has launched a special campaign to complete the creation of APAAR (Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry) IDs for school students across the state. More than 1.45 crore students are expected to receive the digital ID.
At 16, a question about polluted air grew into an effort to show what students breathe every day. Kelly Liu from San Jose, California, began looking at what official monitoring systems missed around individual schools. Using AI mapping and low-cost sensors, she helped bring air-q...
Rescue operations are continuing at Nepal's Chilime hydropower project, where six workers are believed to be trapped inside a tunnel. Indian and Nepali teams are using heavy machinery to clear mud and debris as they move towards an underground powerhouse where the workers are tho...
India has sent the first consignment of components for a 70-metre Bailey bridge to Nepal to help restore connectivity in the flood-hit Betrawati area, the Indian envoy in Kathmandu said on Saturday. More consignments of the bridge components are expected to arrive in the coming d...
An Iranian commercial vessel was hit by a projectile early Sunday near Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one crew member and injuring four others, according to Iranian state media. The incident came a day before Tehran planned to brief regional countries on its disput...
It can happen on an overnight train. You fall asleep, wake up and suddenly realise that your destination has already passed. The first question is usually, can I use the same ticket to go back? The answer is generally no. If you have crossed your destination because you were asle...
The United States has deported 47-year-old Afghan national Nazira Haji Zada after she conceded that she was an “alien terrorist” for supporting an ISIS-inspired plot to carry out a mass shooting on Election Day in 2024, the US Department of Justice said.
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur wants her team to avoid overthinking when it takes on Sri Lanka in the Women's Asia Cup final, with the skipper stressing the need to trust their strengths and keep their approach simple.
A 70-year-old man in Maharashtra's Nagpur allegedly killed his 42-year-old widowed daughter-in-law by striking her with an axe over suspicion that she used to practice black magic, the police said. After the murder, the accused, Natthumal Bhagwan Pali, tried to end his life by ju...
The lane announced itself before I saw it: the smell of wet leather and wood shavings in the air, the particular smell of an instrument still becoming one. I have chased that smell before, in other workshops, in other cities, for the Science of Sound series. I know, by now, rough...
Indonesian rescuers said about 140 passengers and crew were missing after a ferry carrying more than 240 people overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sunday. At least 102 people were rescued and one passenger was found dead as the search widened around the vessel's last kn...
