Day: August 7, 2019

Hordes of Earth’s toughest creatures may now be living on Moon

11:03 pm August 7, 2019

Washington: There might be life on the Moon after all: thousands of virtually indestructible creatures that can withstand extreme radiation, sizzling heat, the coldest temperatures of the universe, and decades without food. These terrifying-sounding beings aren’t aliens but instead microscopic Earthlings known as tardigrades, who likely made it out alive following a crash landing on […]

Evidence of ‘Herculean’ parrot found in New Zealand

10:56 pm August 7, 2019

Wellington: The remains of a super-sized parrot that stood more than half the height of an average human and roamed the earth 19 million years ago have been discovered in New Zealand. Judging by the size of the leg bones, the bird would have stood about one metre (39 inches) tall and weighed up to […]

Television actor’s wife “commits suicide”

10:47 pm August 7, 2019

Hyderabad: The wife of a Telugu television actor “committed suicide” over alleged dowry harassment at their house here, police said on Wednesday. A case was booked and the TV artiste Madhu Prakash was taken into custody and is being questioned, Raidurgam police inspector S Ravinder said. The actor’s wife, aged 34, hanged herself from the […]

Trump denies stoking extremism on visit to massacre sites

10:41 pm August 7, 2019

Washington: President Donald Trump flew Wednesday to the sites of mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, dismissing critics who say his rhetoric on race and immigration has stoked violent extremism. Leaving the White House for a first stop in Dayton, Ohio, where nine people were gunned down over the weekend, Trump said he’d meet “with […]

100 booked for violating Covid guidelines in J-K's Samba

Pakistan downgrades ties with India as Kashmir row deepens

10:37 pm August 7, 2019

Islamabad: Pakistan downgraded its diplomatic ties with nuclear-armed rival India Wednesday, announcing that it will expel the Indian envoy and suspend trade in a deepening row over New Delhi’s move to tighten its grip on disputed Kashmir. New Delhi stripped the Himalayan region of its seven-decade-long semi-autonomous status Monday through a contentious presidential decree, just […]

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