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Chantal Doecke at Onkaparinga River in Adelaide A commercial DNA test has helped an Australian woman discover that she has a twin brother living only a short flight away. Chantal Doecke was evacuated from Saigon as a newborn in 1975 and brought to Australia during Operation Babylift, an international effort to move children out of Vietnam as the war came to an end. Doecke was taken to Adelaide in April 1975. She was carried onto the evacuation flight in a shoebox, with her umbilical cord still attached. For most of her life, she knew very little about her biological family…

Ram Gopal Varma shares his unfiltered opinion on the downfall of Telugu cinema(Image Credit: Facebook) Director Ram Gopal Varma has blamed the lack of accountability among directors as the reason Telugu cinema is struggling. He blames the Telugu film industry’s recurring financial crises on a severe lack of directorial accountability and poor cost control by producers.Ram Gopal Varma says the industry runs on unsuccessful filmsWhile speaking to us, RGV explained that the core issue plaguing Tollywood is not underperforming films, but structural mismanagement during production. The ‘Satya’ filmmaker stated that many Telugu cinema financiers are merely “investors” and not actual…

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israel’s Defence Minister called on Friday (August 14, 2026) for the police to take over law enforcement in the occupied West Bank from the military, which has come under fire from the right-wing for trying to remove settlers harassing Palestinians.The measure, if implemented, would be a step towards Israeli annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory — something several Ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government openly call for.The announcement comes almost a week into a siege by Israeli settlers who have blockaded Palestinians inside their homes in the northern…

‘What do you do?’Sounds like a simple question. But in India, the answer to this question determines your social status.Is there any scope?How much will you earn?What will people say?Some careers in India instantly earn respect. Others invite questions.So when a young person chooses a career, are they really choosing what they want or are they going for what society considers worth choosing?What are the top careers in India?A 2018 Global Education Census by Cambridge International, based on responses from nearly 20,000 teachers and students across the world, including 4,400 teachers and 3,800 students in India, found that medicine and…

Russia has asked Washington and Ankara to explain reports of possible plans to transfer to Kyiv a “substantial arsenal” of U.S. weapons and ammunition held by Turkey, the spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. Such a transfer would cause “serious harm … to our bilateral relations with Washington and Ankara,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement. Turkey requested permission from Washington last week to send Ukraine tens of thousands of artillery projectiles and cluster munitions rockets that had sat in Ankara’s stockpiles for decades. They were produced under a 1987 license from the United States. Neither the U.S.…

Mumbai: Four candidates from Haryana were arrested along with seven modified mobile devices during the non-teaching written examinations held by Central Sanskrit University for the Multi-Tasking Staff (Group D) guard or peon post at Kendriya Vidyalaya in IIT-Powai on Aug 9, and were sent to jail on Friday after completion of five days of police custody, police said.The devices seized by the Powai police were not typical smartphones and consisted of bare circuit boards without external casings, screens or keyboards. The screens and speakers were removed to create a more compact form. Doctors had to intervene to extract one micro…

CHENNAI: Within three days of prohibiting the sale of 11 Indian-made foreign liquor varieties of Chennai-based manufacturer Enrica Enterprises Pvt Ltd, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Friday made a U-turn revoking its earlier order, as distiller reportedly promised compliance within 30 days.Through its Aug 11 order, FSSAI southern regional office had issued prohibitory orders against 11 liquor varieties supplied by Enrica Enterprises following inspection at its manufacturing unit. The order said that the distiller used nature-identical and artificial flavouring substances. Based on the communication, the state and prohibition and excise commissionerate wrote to the Tamil…

Bahraich/Lucknow: Panic gripped villages on the fringes of the Katarniaghat Wildlife Division in Bahraich after a 75-year-old woman and a seven-year-old boy were killed in two separate suspected wildlife attacks within hours of each other on Friday evening.The first incident was reported from the Dharmapur range, where Jamia (75) of Gujarhana village went out to graze her goats around 2 pm. When she did not return home by evening, family members and villagers launched a search. The goats returned on their own around 7 pm, but the woman remained missing.During the search, villagers found a portion of her leg in…

T’puram: Visitors to Thiruvananthapuram Zoo are set for a special attraction with a pair of zebras being brought to the zoo from Gujarat’s Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre, popularly known as Vantara.The museum and zoo department minister O J Janeesh said arrangements to bring the pair of zebras from Vantara have been completed. The arrival will mark the return of zebras to the city zoo after a gap of nine years.The zoo lost its last zebra, Sitha, in 2017 due to old age. Sitha had been brought to Thiruvananthapuram from the Arignar Anna Zoological Park in Vandalur, Chennai, in…

Pain is one of the few experiences that can change the way people see themselves and the world around them. For Lebanese-American poet and writer Khalil Gibran, suffering was not simply something to endure or escape. He saw it as a difficult force that could open the mind to deeper understanding. In his celebrated 1923 book The Prophet, Gibran wrote, “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” The line appears in the chapter “On Pain”, where he presents suffering as part of the process through which people grow and discover aspects of themselves that may…