No kidding, but Jabuticaba looks like some rare disease at first glance. Dark purple fruits look glued onto tree’s bark creating a strange sight. But the fruit tastes absolutely sweet, very close to grape and lychee. Travellers on Reddit often describe seeing the tree for the first time as “otherworldly.” Where to spot Travellers can…
Happy Birthday to You is almost certainly the most frequently sung piece of music on the planet, performed at gatherings in nearly every language and culture around the world. Yet for the better part of a century, the simple tune came with an unusual complication, a corporation actually owned the copyright to it and collected…
Nikola Tesla (Image: Wikipedia) Being copied usually provokes anger. A line widely credited to Nikola Tesla suggests a different reaction entirely. “I don’t care that they stole my idea,” it goes. “I care that they don’t have any of their own.” Rather than focusing on the theft itself, the line shifts attention toward something Tesla…
A toddler swipes across a screen before learning to hold a pencil properly. A teenager wakes up and reaches for Instagram before even getting out of bed. At dinner tables, family members sit together, but each is absorbed in a different digital world. Childhood, friendship, boredom, validation, many of life’s earliest experiences are now unfolding…
Dozens of families in Madhya Pradesh were defrauded in a marriage scam. (AI-generated image used for representational purpose) INDORE: 42 grooms from different parts of Madhya Pradesh arrived in Dewas on Sunday for a mass marriage, with their faces not exuding the brightness of their gleaming sherwanis but coloured in confusion. Some came in hired…
The mid-air collision of two US Navy E/A-18 Growlers of the Electronic Attack Squadron 129 present us with the dangers of low level display flying. One of the most important dictums of aviation is ‘fly high, fly safe’. A low level flying display such as the one in which the two Growlers collided, while performing…
A US boss sold his family company for $1.7 billion and gave 540 workers $240 million of it. (Disclaimer: AI generated image) The week America turns 250, a story from small-town Louisiana is worth pulling back up. A family sold their 43-year-old electrical-equipment company for $1.7 billion last year—but before signing, the chief executive wrote…
UNC urged the Centre to uphold the 2015 Framework Agreement on the Indo-Naga peace process (Representative image) NEW DELHI: The United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body representing 21 Naga tribes in Manipur, on Saturday appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in what it described as a worsening security situation in Naga-inhabited areas…
NEW DELHI: India and UAE are working on an agreement that will help in evacuation of lakhs of Indian workers through the port of Fujairah, and it is likely to be signed during the stopover added to PM Modi’s itinerary, signalling another crucial link to the already strong bilateral ties.The PM is due to leave…
NEW DELHI: Two cousins, aged 20 and 14, returning home on a bike from Monday night’s IPL match, became the city’s latest hit-and-run victims after being crushed to death by a truck in central Delhi’s Ashoka Road.The victims were identified as BSc student Yagya Bhatia and Abhav, residents of Ashok Nagar in west Delhi. Police…