There’s something almost instinctive about wanting to bottle a bit of that perfect white sand before leaving a stunning beach behind, a tiny, tangible souvenir of the holiday. What a lot of travellers don’t realise, though, is that this seemingly harmless habit is actually a punishable offence in several parts of the world, carrying fines…
What happened to the ‘Green House’ family (PC: Instagram) We all saw that one ‘Mint green house’ that stood like a rock and protected its people. The world saw with baited heart as the flood water swept everything other houses surrounding that one miracle home while residents stood on the balcony, helpless but praying for…
A fallen coconut leaf on a Bengaluru campus led professor Dr Saji Varghese to develop biodegradable drinking straws, turning farm waste into a practical alternative to single-use plastic. A walk across a university campus in Bengaluru gave English professor Dr Saji Varghese an unexpected idea in 2017. He noticed a dry coconut leaf that had…
Every home renovation seems to end the same way, a neatly stacked pile of extra tiles sitting in a storeroom or garage corner, too good to throw away, too small a quantity to use for anything “real.” What most people don’t realise is that this leftover pile is actually one of the most underrated resources…
A hungry pair of young black bears recently wandered into a home in Granby, Colorado, startling a resident who found them standing in his hallway. The animals eventually bolted through the front door, but the unusual intrusion is part of a much larger pattern unfolding across the American West. Reuters reported that bear sightings and…
Photo via Instagram/ X/ Pamela Anderson Pamela Anderson has spent the last few years trading the noise of Hollywood for a quieter life on Canada’s West Coast, and she recently posted a video of her beautiful garden sprawling with fresh vegetables, which is proof of what that transition in life has been like.The actress, who…
Eight-year-old Zoyal Ghale was at school in Nepal’s Rasuwa district when a devastating torrent of water, mud and debris tore through the area. With the flood sweeping through his surroundings, the young boy ran towards a forest with a friend and climbed trees to escape the rising waters. He survived. But for his mother, the…
Long before Sundar Pichai became the CEO of Google and Alphabet, he was a boy in Chennai waiting years for something as basic as a telephone. In a candid conversation on the Lex Fridman Podcast, Pichai looked back at his early life in India and how daily struggles, from water shortages to a single rotary…
AI-generated image for representation Once upon a time, in 17th-century Nepal, a powerful kingdom was shaken by a decision that would haunt its history for centuries.A trusted man at the royal court fell from favour. A death followed. And, as the legends say, a woman on a funeral pyre uttered words that would eventually give…
Bibek Kumal, a 24-year-old Nepali labourer, woke on the morning of August 26, 2026 for his regular and ordinary work. He worked in Bidur, Nuwakot. But he didn’t think that his ordinary day would turn out to be extraordinary. He was digging a toilet pit outside a newly built house, about five feet deep. He…
