An enormous iceberg, over 2,000 square miles in area – or nearly the size of Delaware – is poised to detach from one of the largest floating ice shelves in Antarctica and float off in the Weddell Sea, south of the tip of South America. Scientists have been expecting the break from the Larsen C ice shelf, monitoring the progress of a crack which extended to over 100 miles long […]
Are our children equipped with life skills when they leave school to face the world outside? Recent industry surveys are increasingly suggesting that there is a worrying life skills shortage in the workforce. “…graduates are leaving education with inspiring theoretical knowledge, but lack of practical job-related skills. There is a huge soft skills gap developing,” as explained by Ian Gomes, Chairman, KPMG, New and Emerging Markets. Are we educators working […]
The cantilevered glass skywalk at the Ordovician park in Wansheng, China, stretches almost 70m from a sheer cliff face in southwest Chongqing, offering visitors a vertigo-inducing view of the ground some 123 metres below. Suspended more than 120 metres (400 feet) above a gaping chasm, the world’s longest cantilevered glass skywalk is delighting and terrifying visitors in China. The v-shaped walkway stretches almost 70 metres from a sheer cliff face […]
An indefinite strike has paralysed life in India’s tea-producing region of Darjeeling. A local party is demanding a separate state for the area’s majority Nepali-speaking Gorkha community. The protests have followed a recent decision by the West Bengal government to introduce Bengali as a compulsory subject in schools across the state, including in Darjeeling. The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha or GJM (Gorkha People’s Liberation Front), which is spearheading the protest, has […]
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a call to the well-heeled LPG consumers to give up their cooking gas subsidies, the Railways department seems to be mooting a similar idea for its passengers too. As per a report in the Times of India, the government wants to give rail passengers a similar option to “voluntarily forego the subsidy on tickets.” The plan will be rolled out next month, TOI said. […]
China’s official media has said Beijing should reconsider its stance and support Sikkim’s “independence”, ratcheting up its rhetoric amid a row with India over a road being built by the Chinese army in the Sikkim sector. “Beijing should reconsider its stance over the Sikkim Issue. Although China recognized India’s annexation of Sikkim in 2003, it can readjust its stance on the matter,” says an editorial in the hardline Global Times, run […]
Scientists from Taipei Medical University may have finally found the superfood or superfruit rather that could be the secret to good night’s sleep. Although people are aware of the vitamin C content in Kiwi’s and it’s antioxidant properties, this new finding shows Kiwis in a new light The study states that the high-level of serotonin and antioxidants in Kiwis make it a natural and potent sleep agent. The month-long study […]
Devastating flooding in parts of Bangladesh has affected some 900,000 people and displaced thousands of families, officials said on Wednesday. According to Disaster Management and Relief Ministry Secretary Shah Kamal, authorities had already rushed disaster response teams to carry out rescue work, distribute relief materials and supervise centres where nearly 2,000 families took shelter. “Some 900,000 people were affected due to floods in three districts,” Kamal told Xinhua news agency. […]
True to his image, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un today used foul language to taunt the US and said that his country’s intercontinental ballistic missile test was a “gift” to “American bastards” on their independence day. According to The Independent, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted Kim Jong-Un, who personally oversaw the test, as saying that “American bastards would be not very happy with this gift sent on the […]
Each of us thrives on being successful and in doing so we often forget the difficulties lying in the path to success. We set targets and want to achieve them right away, but we are humans and may fall short on those goals. Failure at the start can lead to frustration, and it shatters the self-confidence you had at the beginning. You might consider giving up on your dreams because […]
