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In northwest China’s Shaanxi province, a 13-kilometre stretch of the Qin Straight Road is forcing archaeologists to redraw parts of one of antiquity’s most ambitious transport systems. The corridor, built more than 2,200 years ago under the Qin dynasty, is often described as a “four-lane highway,” a comparison that captures its width but not its…

The UK Gurdwara Alliance has issued a public clarification stating that social media commentators Harman Kapoor and Bobby Singh do not represent the Sikh community, Sikh institutions or any recognised Sikh representative body.In a statement, the organisations said neither individual had been authorised, appointed or mandated to speak on behalf of Sikhs. They stressed that…

The Akrotiri evacuation remains one of archaeology’s most uncomfortable puzzles because it does not behave like a disaster site. On Santorini, where a massive volcanic eruption buried entire settlements in ash around 1600 BCE, researchers expected a Bronze Age version of Pompeii, chaos frozen mid-moment, bodies left where they fell, daily life interrupted violently. Instead,…

Every year, the world generates hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic waste, and the vast majority of it ends up in places where it is not useful. A landmark 2025 study published in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, which conducted a global trade-linked material flow analysis of plastics for 2022, found that the global…

Every summer, millions of people head towards America’s beaches expecting sunshine, surf, and warm coastal waters. Yet beneath those same waves lives one of the ocean’s most misunderstood predators. Shark attacks remain exceptionally rare, but they are not evenly distributed. Some areas of coastlines in the United States have more incidents of shark attacks than…

MacKenzie Scott has spent the past several years doing something few billionaires have attempted at such scale: giving away vast amounts of wealth as quickly as possible. That approach has now earned the Amazon co-founder and former wife of Jeff Bezos a place on Forbes’ Iconoclast 50 list, which recognises people reshaping industries and challenging…

At least 12 people were killed and nine others injured after gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement in Cleveland, east of Johannesburg, South Africa.The South African Police Service said officers responded to reports of a shooting in progress late on Tuesday evening at around 11.10 pm at the Jumpers informal settlement, where they found…

Donald Trump on Wednesday launched retaliatory strikes against Iran after Tehran shot down a US Apache helicopter near the troubled Strait of Hormuz. The escalation came amid months of tensions in the Middle East following the launch of the US mega military campaign against Iran – Operation Epic Fury.The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) said…

Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) administration launched a search operation for four protesters and announced a bounty of Rs 1 crore for information leading to the arrest of leaders linked to the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) after massive protests in region, according to a report by Dawn.PoK authorities have also ordered sedition proceedings against two JAAC…

When Jayshree Ullal joined networking startup Arista Networks in 2008, the company had no revenue and fewer than 50 employees. Nearly two decades later, she has helped transform it into one of Silicon Valley’s most successful networking companies and become one of the wealthiest self-made women in the United States. Forbes ranks Ullal No. 7…