Laid off by Amazon, woman starts chicken farm: ‘I have my product, the eggs’ A job loss can leave people unsure about what comes next. But for Maria Harshitha, an unexpected career break eventually opened the door to a completely different kind of work.Her story, shared on LinkedIn, has drawn attention because of the unusual…
Can you guess India’s Milk Capital? Here’s why this Gujarat city earned the title Some Indian cities are famous for monuments, some for food, and others for industries that shaped the country. Then there is Anand, a city in Gujarat whose identity is closely linked to something found in almost every Indian kitchen: milk.Anand is…
There is something special about travelling through India by train. You watch busy cities give way to open fields, wake up to unfamiliar stations, and sometimes end up having conversations with people you may never meet again. But long-distance train travel also has its own little challenges. Some mistakes are easy to make when you…
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…
AI representation/ChatGPT Five friends from Chhattisgarh were travelling through Nepal when a tea break changed the course of their trip. The group from Raipur stopped at a hotel in Malekhu town in Nepal’s Dhading district around 9:30-10 am on August 26. A short while later, they learnt that a bridge ahead had been washed away…
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…
Heartbreaking visuals from Nepal prompted netizens to draw parallels with Grave of the Fireflies. There are some images that stay with you long after you have scrolled past them. A video emerging from flood-hit Nepal shows one such moment: a little boy, carrying his younger sister in his arms, walking through the devastation as he…
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…