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NDTV reports that decades after Partition divided Punjab along the Radcliffe Line, the quest to preserve 'Punjabiyat', the shared Punjabi identity, continues on both sides of the border. The report examines how…
Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi did not visit the Yasukuni Shrine on the anniversary of World War II's end, avoiding a site that has long inflamed tensions with China and South Korea. The…
Greater Kashmir reports that PM Narendra Modi thanked leaders from Bhutan, Slovakia, Maldives, France, and Nepal for their Independence Day greetings. He said India cherishes its partnership with Bhutan, looks forward to…
Iran has accused Qatar of holding three of its pilots missing since March, a claim Doha denies. Iran's Armed Forces General Staff said Qatari forces captured the pilots after their jets were…
पाकिस्तान के राष्ट्रपति आसिफ अली जरदारी ने 14 अगस्त को इस्लामाबाद में स्वतंत्रता दिवस समारोह में हिंदू अल्पसंख्यकों के लिए 'बर्दाश्त' शब्द का इस्तेमाल किया। आजतक की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, उन्होंने कहा…
A two-year study at 12 commercial solar farms in the US Midwest, published in Global Ecology and Conservation, found bat activity was about 50% higher over solar facilities than over neighbouring crop…
Point Nemo in the South Pacific is the most remote spot on Earth, 2,688 km from the nearest land in any direction. Since 1971, over 263 retired spacecraft have been deliberately guided…
A vessel has sailed through the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm, 18 km off the Dutch coast, to collect the world's first seaweed harvest grown between operating turbines. The farm, called North…
In September 1968, three months before Apollo 8, two Central Asian steppe tortoises launched aboard the Soviet Zond 5 spacecraft became the first living organisms to circle the Moon and return alive.…
A century after its publication, a quote from Khalil Gibran's The Prophet on pain continues to resonate. Gibran wrote: 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.' He…
