Mahatma Gandhi (Image: Wikipedia) A lot of famous quotes survive because they sound clever. This one by Mahatma Gandhi survives for a different reason. It feels personal almost immediately.The line is short. Simple too. No dramatic language. No complicated philosophy. Still, people continue sharing it decades later because it quietly points toward something many individuals…
Walter Benjamin (Image: Wikipedia) Some quotes comfort people instantly. Others leave readers unsettled for a while because they touch emotions most people usually avoid discussing openly. This quote by Walter Benjamin belongs firmly in the second category.It is not a light quote. It does not try to sound motivational or reassuring. In fact, the line…
Iran lashed out at the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, accusing Abu Dhabi of direct involvement in military operations against Tehran during a tense exchange at the Brics foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi.The sharp escalation came a day after the UAE denied a claim by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he had visited…
Latvian PM resigns due to split in alliance over Russian drones The Latvian prime minister, Evika Silina, tendered her resignation on Thursday after disagreements over incidents involving drones from Ukraine led to the fall of her coalition government only months before the country holds an election in October. The political situation became more complicated when…
Erik Erikson (Image: Wikipedia) Hope is one of those things people rarely notice when life feels stable. It quietly sits in the background while plans move normally, relationships feel secure, and the future appears manageable. Most people do not wake up every morning consciously thinking about hope. They simply assume tomorrow will arrive and life…
Super-rich NRI Paul Parmar sentenced to five years in prison over fraud in New Jersey. Parmjit Parmar, a 55-year-old Indian-origin man from New Jersey, has been sentenced to five years in jail, followed by three years’ supervised release and a payment of $125 million over his involvement in a large-scale conspiracy to defraud investors, in…
A judge ordered the US to bring back a Colombian woman who was deported to the DRC despite Congo’s refusal to accept the 55-year-old woman. The Donald Trump administration’s third-country deportation, a new policy that they have come up with where a migrant is sent to a third country where they have no connection, received…
A satellite survey in Sudan’s Atbai Desert has uncovered 280 large stone burial monuments. These findings unveil the social complexity of a long-lost society of cattle herders. The study, published in the African Archaeological Review, explores these structures known as ‘Atbai Enclosure Burials’ (AEBs). Dating back to the Middle and Late Holocene, with diameters reaching…
High in the Spanish Pyrenees at 2,235 meters, archaeologists made a paradigm-shifting discovery that challenges our view of prehistoric life in the mountains. In the remote Cova 338 cave, experts from the Autonomous University of Barcelona found the remains of an 11-year-old child with primitive metallurgical tools. This site dates back over five millennia and…
Taiwan emerged as a major flashpoint between China and the United States, with Beijing warning of possible “clashes and even conflicts” if the issue is not handled properly during talks between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.While Trump stayed quiet on question about Taiwan after his meeting with Xi, Beijing later confirmed the…