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China unveils 350-kmph Xi'an-Shiyan bullet train, cuts travel time from over six hours to oneChina has launched the Xi'an-Shiyan high-speed railway, a crucial link connecting central and western regions. This 257-km line, designed f...
This $1.16 billion hole in the ground is humanity's best plan for nuclear waste, and it's opening in the world's happiest country - here's what you need to knowFinland nuclear waste repository: Finland is poised to open Onkalo, the world's first permanent underground repository for nuclear waste. T...
The green strategic partnership: India and Norway chart a sustainable futurePrime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 2026 visit to Norway — the first by an Indian Prime Minister in over 40 years — upgraded bilateral ties ...
Chinese proverb of the day: “An embankment a thousand miles long can be destroyed by...” Learn a timeless life lesson from ancient Chinese wisdom on how tiny unnoticed mistakes quietly destroy strong foundations, success, leadership, and even powerful empires over timeChinese proverb of the day reveals a powerful life lesson modern leaders, businesses, and successful people still ignore today. “An embankm...
In 2003, archaeologists investigating storm damage near a Mexican pyramid found a hidden tunnel that reframed Teotihuacan’s sacred worldHeavy rains in 2003 unexpectedly revealed a hidden tunnel at Teotihuacan. This ancient site near Mexico City yielded thousands of ritual ar...
Tales of tunnels underneath village prove to be true, a Group of Researchers Found a Tunnel System Beneath a Village, But No One Knows Who Built ThemMysterious tunnels in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, once dismissed as legend, are now being investigated. A local society formed in 2024 found evid...
Scientists Just Used Space Particles to See Beneath Ancient Jerusalem, and What They Found Is Raising QuestionsArchaeologists are now using cosmic ray muon imaging to see underground without digging. This new technique has successfully identified hid...
The Underground City That Could Hide Thousands… Why Was It Built?Beneath central Turkey lies Derinkuyu, a remarkable underground city carved into volcanic rock, capable of sheltering thousands. This ancie...
Word of the Day: LabyrinthineLabyrinthine is reemerging as a standout Word of the Day as newsrooms and educators lean into richer vocabulary. Used to describe complex c...
What lies between the stars? Astronomers map a mysterious ‘interstellar tunnel’ of plasma stretching from our solar system to distant starsAstronomers have found an interstellar tunnel using the eRosita X-ray telescope. This tunnel is a channel of hot, low-density plasma. It st...
No Mughal Dynasty in Class 7 NCERT textbook, fresh chapters on Indian rulers introducedClass VII NCERT social science textbooks have removed chapters on the Mughals and the Delhi Sultanate, replaced by content on ancient India...
New NCERT textbooks: Mughals, Delhi Sultanate dropped; 'sacred geography', Maha Kumbh addedClass 7 NCERT textbooks have undergone significant revisions, omitting references to the Mughals and Delhi Sultanate while introducing chap...
Deadly flooding in China worsens as rescues continue and areas downriver brace for high waterHeavy rain and high water levels in northeastern China are threatening cities downstream, prompting evacuations of thousands. Hebei provinc...
As China boomed, it didn’t take climate change into account. Now it must.China has always had floods, but as Kong Feng, then a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, wrote in 2019, the floodin...
Narendra Modi’s task: To make India less effluent, more affluentMunde was a bad loss because Modi is fishing in a shallow pool of talent. 100-day agendas sound good, but 10 days have whipped past without...
Smart city: Jaipur blending modernity with heritageChief minister Vasundhara Raje announced the construction of underpass between Ramniwas garden (opposite Sanganeri gate) and Delhi road in ...
Bidar's drought-proof action: a model for others to followFaced with worst ever drought, the district in Karnataka has desilted historical wells and tanks for the first time in last five decades wi...
FDI in retail: To empower dalits, do away with India’s antiquated retail trading systemFDI in retail will further boost India's industrialisation and give modernity a thumbs up. FDI lao, Manu bhagao.
- Great Wall, Taj lead in new 7 wonders list
The Great Wall, the Colosseum and Machu Picchu are among the leading contenders to be the new seven wonders of the world as a massive poll ...
- A moving heritage
Take the narrow guage train from Kalka to Shimla to experience a living legend and admire an engineering marvel.