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Nepal’s tourism industry is facing one of its most serious controversies in years after police uncovered a $20 million insurance fraud scheme linked to Mount Everest trekking routes. Authorities say a network of guides, trekking agencies, helicopter operators and medical personnel worked together to exploit international travellers by deliberately inducing illness and orchestrating unnecessary emergency…

Joshua Spriestersbach, 54, was awarded a $975,000 payout after he was wrongfully arrested and thrown in a Hawaii psychiatric hospital for years/ AP A man who spent years detained in a psychiatric hospital after being repeatedly mistaken for someone else has been awarded a $975,000 payout, bringing partial closure to a case that unfolded across…

A senior librarian in the US state of Tennessee has been fired after refusing to relocate more than 100 books from children’s sections, sparking a debate over censorship, free speech, and LGBTQ content in public libraries.The Rutherford County Library Board voted 8–3 to remove James after she refused to implement its directive to move around…

Kristi Noem’s husband breaks silence on the ‘secret life’ row. Bryon Noem, Kristi Noem’s husband, has reacted to the major expose by the Daily Mail on his ‘secret life’ where he crossdresses and pays online fetish models for chatting, and said he would share his side of the story some day. “I will at some…

Space missions depend on power systems that can function far away from sunlight and without maintenance. Solar panels struggle in deep space, where light weakens with distance. That limitation has pushed agencies to rely on nuclear-based energy sources for decades. These systems, known as radioisotope power systems, have quietly supported missions operating across the Solar…

Archaeologists have uncovered a huge mud-brick building, 2,500 years old, that has been buried underneath the silty deposits and waterlogged sediments of the Nile Delta, Egypt, for thousands of years, using non-invasive geophysical methods such as magnetometry and electrical resistivity tomographic techniques. The structure was located as part of a recent archaeological project within Tell…

A seemingly awkward moment involving Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has gone viral after he was seen struggling to open a water bottle during a public event in the UK. The incident occurred during an on-stage conversation at Chatham House on Tuesday, where al-Sharaa was speaking with Director and CEO Bronwen Maddox.In the video, the Syrian…

Aravind Srinivas, CEO of AI startup Perplexity, says job losses because of AI are fine as people hate their jobs anyway. Aravind Srinivas, the Indian-origin CEO of Perplexity AI, was caught in a major controversy after he defended AI-triggered layoffs and said people do not love their jobs anyway. In a podcast, Srinivas who studied…

MrBeast (Image Via Getty) A fresh discussion around MrBeast has taken over the internet after a bold claim about his earnings went viral. Popular Twitch streamer Din Muktar, also known as Agent00, said during a livestream that MrBeast could be making close to $2 billion every year. He even estimated that around $103 million comes…

Donald Trump niece says her grandfather (Donald Trump’s father) was an ‘anchor baby’. Mary Trump, the niece of President Donald Trump, who is also a staunch critic of the president, said her grandfather was an anchor baby and the best case against birthright citizenship has been the president himself. Mary referred to Donald Trump’s father…

Redditor shares frustration after losing last chance at H-1B lottery, gets trolled. A Redditor shared the feelings of losing the last chance at the H-1B lottery but got picked on by US-based commentators who made fun of the ‘entitlement’ of foreigners who think they have a right to stay in the US. The results of…

China’s incredible ‘Heavenly Pits’ (also called Tiankeng) are the result of carbonate bedrock dissolved over time by underground water. As these underground rivers carved large caves, they finally collapsed, creating vertical chasms, or giant dolines, 500 to 600 meters deep. These areas are like giant greenhouses – they trap heat and moisture so that the…

The “No Kings” protests swept across the United States and parts of Western Europe on March 29, 2026, drawing thousands opposed to President Trump’s foreign policy, particularly the escalating tensions with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Organisers framed it as a movement for democracy, peace, and civil rights. It was all of those things,…

The four astronauts selected for the Artemis II mission are set to become the first humans to travel to the Moon’s vicinity in more than five decades, marking a defining moment in modern space exploration. The crew Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen will embark on a 10-day journey that will take…

According to science, this is what a human would have to look like to survive a car crash/ TAC For all the ways modern life has accelerated, the human body has not kept pace. Cars now routinely travel at speeds our physiology was never built to endure, and when something goes wrong, as it often…

​​Internet personality Mike Cernovich questions how many H-1Bs Oracle has after the IT company announced a layoff of 30,000 employees across the world.​ IT firm Oracle announced a brutal layoff impacting 30,000 employees across the world in a 6am email on March 31. Informing the employees that March 31 was their last working day, the…

Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar on Wednesday indicated that ongoing and future conflicts remain a possibility, saying that the country cannot guarantee the current war will be its last.Speaking amid continued regional tensions, Saar said Israel’s adversaries still retain the capability to launch attacks, though they do not currently pose a fundamental threat to the…

Megyn Kelly says Kristi Noem’s affair almost seems noble after the revelation of her husband’s secret life. Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly weighed in on the viral photos of Kristi Noem’s husband Bryon Noem — the latest scandal to hit the former DHS secretary — and said now Kristi Noem’s affair with Corey Lewandowski seems justified…

A 36-year-old Indian national, Sandhu Ponnachan, has been charged with multiple serious offences after a car rammed into pedestrians in Derby city centre, leaving seven people injured.Ponnachan faces charges including six counts of grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, one count of attempted GBH with intent, dangerous driving, and possession of a bladed article, the…

UAE Eases Healthcare Licensing, Allows Academic Doctors to Treat Patients / Image : file The United Arab Emirates has introduced sweeping new rules aimed at strengthening its healthcare workforce, allowing university medical faculty to practise in hospitals while easing licensing procedures for fresh graduates. Federal and emirate-level health authorities led the decision, which is expected…