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The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here’s how I came to love it : NPR
The World Factbook’s website drew millions of views each year, according to the CIA. It’s seen here in an archived version from last month. CIA World Factbook via Internet Archive/ Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption CIA World Factbook via Internet Archive/ Screenshot by NPR When one of the world’s most secretive and far-reaching organizations offers to share how…
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Assam cabinet decides to refer case of Gaurav Gogoi’s ‘Pakistan links’ to MHA
Guwahati: The Assam cabinet on Saturday, February 7, decided to refer the case of Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi’s alleged Pakistan links to the Ministry of Home Affairs, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. He maintained that there are “three key players” in the case – an MP, his British wife and Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh. Addressing a press conference…
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9 Movies That Tried To Be The Next Iron Man (2008)
Hollywood spent the 2010s chasing the lightning that the MCU’s Iron Man captured in 2008. Audiences loved a swaggering hero, glossy tech, and a promise that one movie was only the beginning of something massive. Studios responded by reshaping existing properties and inventing new ones that leaned hard into charm, quips, and expandable universes. Some movies borrowed the MCU timeline’s…
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Health Department food inspections for week of Jan. 25 | Health
During the week of Jan. 25, the Jefferson County Health Department inspected 37 food establishments. Scores ranged from 71 to 100. Some were routine inspections while others were reinspections where scores are not assigned. All inspections are unannounced visits. Facilities considered low priority are not assigned a score. A low priority facility does not prepare food. According to the Jefferson…
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India tracks exits, not returns amid brain drain: Sanjaya Baru at History Lit Fest
Hyderabad: India has no credible data on how many of its nationals are actually returning to the country to serve it, even as there is data on how many have left, former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s media advisor and author of the “Accidental Prime Minister” Sanjaya Baru said on Saturday, February 7, highlighting what he called the mass “brain drain”…
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These 773,000-year-old fossils may reveal our shared human ancestor
Perfectly timed fossils from Morocco reveal a forgotten African population living near the very root of the human family tree. Fossils dated with exceptional precision Sediments at Thomas Quarry I preserve a clear record of a major flip in Earth’s magnetic field that occurred about 773,000 years ago. This natural timestamp allows scientists to pin down the age of these…
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Iranian beautician films violent crackdown on protests
BEIRUT (AP) — As tear gas canisters landed among protesters filling the wide boulevard, the 37-year-old beautician and her friends ran for cover. They sheltered among trees, concealed in darkness pierced only by the glow of streetlights and small fires behind them in the western Iranian city of Karaj. Then gunfire rang out, audible in the video she was taking…
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Meet Dr Sohail Anjum, who enters Indian Book of World Records for unique surgery
Hyderabad: Dr Sohail Anjum, a Hyderabad-based surgeon associated with Glenfield Malla Reddy Brain and Heart Hospital on Chapel Road, has entered the Indian Book of World Records for performing what has been described as a first-of-its-kind cervical spine tumor surgery using a new anesthetic approach. He received a special award on February 6 at a felicitation ceremony held at the…
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7 Best Sci-Fi Movies About Astronauts, Ranked
Humanity’s fascination with the cosmos is as old as our ability to write and leave records of our thoughts behind for newer generations. Long before the invention of the telescope, ancient civilizations gazed at the night sky, interpreting the movement of celestial bodies through the lens of myth, religion, and prophecy. Over the centuries, our understanding of space has changed…
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Latest alleged Iranian regime official found in Canada wants his identity hidden
A suspected high-ranking Iranian official caught living in Canada appeared at his deportation hearing on Thursday as the regime he is accused of serving faced growing condemnation for killing protesters. Before arriving in Canada, the Iranian citizen was a senior member of his government, according to the Canada Border Services Agency, which has asked the Immigration and Refugee Board to…
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