‘Saw several bodies, animals in river’: Nepal flood survivors narrate ‘earthquake-like’ experience

Several survivors have come forward and shared their first-hand accounts of the situation with the media (Photo: AP). The Nepal flood disaster has claimed at least 270 lives, while more than 800 people have been reported missing. Several survivors have come forward and shared their first-hand accounts of the situation with the media.“We saw several…

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‘Issue of enormous significance’: Kharge writes to PM Modi, demands 25-year delimitation freeze | India News

NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reiterating the Congress’ demand to maintain the existing strength of the Lok Sabha at 543 for another 25 years.Kharge’s letter came after Union parliamentary affairs minister hinted at a possible special session of Parliament for the passage…

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Meet Lennox French, the North Carolina student who designed a virtual-reality classroom idea; the state approved it and he will now become the first student to build a unit for SparkNC’s statewide platform

French’s journey started in the Spark Lab at Lexington Senior High School, where students are encouraged to explore emerging technologies and to build ideas that have real-world applications. A high school student’s vision of a virtual classroom is about to go far beyond the walls where it started. Lennox French, a student at Lexington Senior…

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Massachusetts police officer resigns hours before termination hearing after allegedly using Flock and police databases to track former partner; town removed its last Flock camera

A police officer in the small Massachusetts town of Stow has resigned just hours before a scheduled termination hearing, after an internal investigation found he repeatedly misused surveillance tools to track a former partner. Officer Jason Rogers allegedly used Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader system and state police databases to obtain information about the…

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Blackbeard hypersonic missile: When speed meets cheap & scalable

Development trial of the DRDO-developed hypersonic Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRAShM). (image credit: DRDO) Operation Sindoor offered a masterclass in why high-speed weapons can help win conflicts. BrahMos missiles, travelling at nearly three times the speed of sound, sliced through Pakistan’s Chinese-origin air defences, dismantling command infrastructure and rendering key runways unusable in the process….

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