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Quote of the day by Florence Nightingale: 'Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift—there is nothing small about it,' a lesson on gratitude from the British nurse and social reformer- A museum drawer hid this dinosaur secret for 40 years, until now when everything changed
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- India needs 2,000 GW new power capacity in 20 years, says Adani Green's Sagar AdaniIndia needs to add nearly 2,000 gigawatts of new power generation capacity over the next two decades to meet rising demand and reduce relia...27 Jun, 2026, 04.41 PM IST
- Greece's iconic Parthenon is back: One of the world’s most famous temples just reclaimed a lost piece of historyGreece Parthenon restoration: Athens' iconic Parthenon has regained a significant piece of its history with the completion of its western p...26 Jun, 2026, 09.54 PM IST
- UK hottest June day record broken for third day in a row: Met OfficeThe 36. 9C record temperature was chalked in Wattisham, Suffolk, in southeast England, the meteorologists said, breaking the previous high ...26 Jun, 2026, 08.44 PM IST
- In 1950, Australia used a virus as a biological weapon against millions of rabbits; scientists just decoded how they fought back, using DNA from a rabbit that once belonged to Charles DarwinAustralia's 1950 introduction of the myxoma virus to control rabbits backfired as evolution intervened. Scientists, analyzing rabbit DNA ac...25 Jun, 2026, 04.54 PM IST
- Quote of the day by Charles Darwin: 'It is intolerable to think of spending one’s whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working and nothing after all' ; life lesson on marriage life vs single lifeCharles Darwin, at 29, grappled with balancing work and personal life, fearing a solitary existence. His journal revealed a 'neuter bee' an...09 Jun, 2026, 07.59 PM IST
- This UK couple grows chairs in their garden and sells them for $90000Alice and Gavin Munro have spent two decades cultivating trees to grow into ready-made chairs, a process taking 6 to 12 years per piece. Th...09 Jun, 2026, 03.32 PM IST
- In 1748, workers digging near Naples hit painted walls, and Pompeii began returning from ashIn a serendipitous turn of events in 1748, excavations near Naples revealed the buried city of Pompeii, a Roman gem preserved by the volcan...05 Jun, 2026, 05.25 PM IST
- In 1942, a plowman struck something unexpected beneath a wartime field and discovered a hoard of Roman silver hidden for over 1,600 yearsA farmer's plow unearthed a remarkable Roman silver hoard in England. This discovery challenged previous beliefs about Roman Britain's weal...05 Jun, 2026, 04.41 PM IST
- The Scorpion King was real: Venomous creature as long as a full-grown German Shepherd once ruled the Earth before DinosaursAncient fossils reveal giant scorpions, Praearcturus gigas, exceeding a meter in length, dominated Britain over 400 million years ago. Thes...05 Jun, 2026, 03.01 PM IST
- Musket balls and a burnt hull: First shipwrecks linked to Pirates of the Caribbean discovered in Nassau Harbor, The BahamasNassau, Bahamas, once a pirate haven, has yielded six shipwrecks. Three wrecks are linked to the Golden Age of Piracy. These discoveries ar...05 Jun, 2026, 02.25 PM IST
- This 415-million-year-old monster scorpion existed before trees, and it's the biggest everScientists have identified Praearcturus gigas, a one-meter-long scorpion from the Early Devonian period, as the largest scorpion ever disco...05 Jun, 2026, 12.27 AM IST
- Inside Lalit Modi’s lavish London house: A look at the IPL founder’s 5-storey mansionLalit Modi, the architect of the Indian Premier League, has transformed cricket's economics and entertainment value. He resides in a lavish...04 Jun, 2026, 06.56 PM IST
- This day in history, May 30: From Joan of Arc's execution to the first Indy 500, women's pro baseball league debut and Mariner 9's launch to MarsThis day in history, May 30, has witnessed some of the world's most significant political, military, scientific and cultural developments. ...30 May, 2026, 05.19 PM IST
- In the 1940s, Harold Ridley noticed plastic splinters sitting quietly in pilots’ eyes, and it wasn’t just wartime debris: It changed cataract surgeryDuring the tumultuous period of World War II, a serendipitous observation emerged within the field of ophthalmology. British pilots, expose...30 May, 2026, 03.01 PM IST
- Goodbye to the myth that Tanystropheus hunted on land: CT scans suggest a stranger life in the seaPaleontologists have long debated the Tanystropheus, a prehistoric creature with an unusually long neck. Recent CT scans of its skull revea...25 May, 2026, 03.26 PM IST
- In 2018, workers building a major English highway uncovered giant Ice Age bones that revealed Britain sits on an ancient mammoth territoryA Cambridgeshire highway project crew unearthed massive Ice Age mammoth bones, revealing a prehistoric landscape. This significant find, un...22 May, 2026, 05.19 PM IST
- Goddess Vagdevi idol more important than Kohinoor, say petitioners; seek its return from LondonFollowing a High Court ruling declaring Bhojshala a Saraswati temple, Hindu petitioners are demanding the return of the Goddess Vagdevi ido...19 May, 2026, 04.33 PM IST
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