PUNE, India — Anyone who has visited India or seen movies on India like “Lion” or “Slumdog Millionaire”, would have a fair idea of how the railway stations in the country are — crowded, chaotic, and unbearably hot during the summers. But Bengaluru in the southern state of Karnataka — known as the tech capital of India — wanted to change this. And space was cleared to make way for the country’s first centralized air-conditioned railway terminal. Those traveling through the station will be welcomed by a grand canopy over the building concourse — much on the lines of international airports. A…
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KAMPALA, Uganda — Rapidly disappearing wetlands are at the center of a controversial plan in Uganda to expand job opportunities — especially for young workers — by building a series of industrial parks. Though the country has a National Environment Act, implemented in 1995 to manage and restrict use of wetlands, a new venture seeks to acquire hundreds of acres of wetlands to use as sites for industrial and business parks. The Uganda Investment Authority is in the process of acquiring an additional 400 hectares (988 acres) of land to expand the Kampala Industrial and Business Park, popularly known as Namanve, is the country’s flagship business park.…
LONDON — Twelve months after the first Covid-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom, residents across the country held a minute of silence in memory of those who fell victims to the global pandemic. The medical staff of the Bradford Teaching Hospitals was part of the event. They gathered to remember the saddening number of patients they lost to Covid-19, among whom two of their colleagues, with a one-minute silent standing ovation in Bradford, West Yorkshire, on March 23. “The past year has truly been a year like no other,” said Professor Mel Pickup, Chief Executive of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. “We have…
RASTATT, Germany — German officials have announced their hope to extract $7.6 million from a compost company, allegedly contaminating groundwater and 2,500 acres of land, using toxic waste paper as fertilizer. The announcement came from officials in Rastatt (southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany), who claims a compost company with headquarters in Baden-Baden (yet to be named) has committed Germany’s worst environmental scandals in terms of volume of land contamination. “The company is spreading compost mixed with paper sludge on agricultural fields as fertilizers. The sludge contains perfluorochemicals (PFCs), which are not degradable, that made their way into the groundwater and forced a water…
DIKSON, Russia — A polar bear‘s walk next to a playground soon forced a cop to fire his rifle into the air to scare it away and keep it from going deeper into the village. The footage was taken in the Arctic village of Dickson, which is one of Russia’s northernmost settlements in the federal subject of Krasnoyarsk Krai. The video shows the large polar bear (Ursus maritimus) walking next to a children’s playground. The bear calmly continues to make its way around a building as some locals watch on, and two dogs bark at it shortly before the video ends. “A…
CAIRO, Egypt — This video captured the glorious moment when an Egyptian swimmer set a new Guinness world record for the highest jump out of the water with a monofin. Omar Sayed Shaaban, 21, who trains at Cairo Stadium Swimming Pool in the Egyptian capital, set the Guinness World Record for the highest jump out of the water while wearing a monofin with 2.3 meters (7.54 feet). Shaaban, who is considered one of the world’s fastest underwater sprinters, broke the world record after nine years. The Guinness World Record shared Shaaban’s achievement on their Facebook page, writing, “An amazing monofin leap from Egypt’s…
SOCHI, Russia — A female snowboarder was terrified when she sank 2.5 meters down a hole into the snow after accidentally deviating off-piste and realizing nobody could hear her screaming for help. The incident took place at the Rosa Khutor ski resort in the Russian city of Sochi on March 19. Olga Krylova, 32, said she is a design engineer with a great passion for mountain sports. She could not contain her relief when her friends found her after the accident during an adrenaline-filled snowboarding trip. She was snowboarding down the marked route when she deviated from the piste and was…
SORRENTO, Italy — Cops in Italy — Guardia di Finanza — have arrested 12 arrests over illegal date mussel poaching in the Gulf of Naples. The recent arrests were carried out three years after the launch of an investigation by the Naples Public Prosecutor’s Office into organized illegal date mussel poaching in the Gulf of Naples. “The marine species are protected by various international conventions and community directives, and also at the national level the ban on capture, possession, and marketing,” said Guardia di Finanza in a press release. The capture, possession, and sale of lithophaga, or ‘date mussels,’ from Italian waters has…
SALZGITTER, Germany — A puzzle enthusiast in a Guinness World Record bid to complete the world’s most enormous jigsaw with 54,000 pieces was left shocked after realizing the final piece was missing. Peter Schubert, 52, from Hallerndorf, a municipality in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim in the southern German state of Bavaria, said that he is a true puzzle devotee and a very patient man, something that according to him is essential when solving puzzles with thousands of pieces. He explained how his fascination with puzzles began 17 years ago when he came across a puzzle in a bookstore that had thousands…
BRISTOL, England — A video has surfaced about the violent scenes during the March 21 night’s riot in Bristol in opposition to the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill. The ‘Kill The Bill’ protests turned violent as a patrol car was burned down and two other police officers were hospitalized, one with broken ribs and another with a fractured arm. Bridewell Police station in Bristol’s city Centre remained under siege for several hours, with police vehicles burned or scrawled in graffiti. “Unacceptable scenes in Bristol tonight,” said Priti Patel, Home Secretary, the United Kingdom, on Twitter. “Thuggery and disorder by a minority will…