Elizabeth Fry (Image: Wikipedia) A prison cell is a strange place to find a social reformer.Yet that is exactly where Elizabeth Fry spent much of her time during the early nineteenth century. While many of her contemporaries viewed prisons as places where offenders simply received the consequences of their actions, Fry saw something else. She…
Chinese proverb of the day (Image generated via Google Gemini) Some proverbs make perfect sense the moment they are heard. Others need a little unpacking.“A woman three years older is like holding a golden brick.”At first glance, it sounds unusual. Modern readers might wonder why a few years of age would be compared to something…
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he expects major artificial intelligence companies to agree to “giving back” to the public, suggesting a model that could involve a government stake or public benefit mechanism tied to AI industry gains, as per Reuters.Speaking at the White House Oval Office, Trump said he would soon meet top…
Sneako and Kai Trump (Image Via Getty) Streamer Sneako has found himself at the center of another online debate after a video showing his reaction to Kai Trump started making rounds on social media. The clip, shared by crypto news account Coinvo, shows Sneako watching videos of Kai Trump, the granddaughter of U.S. President Donald…
Sarthak Sidhant with his mother When 18-year-old Sarthak Sidhant started making national headlines, many people saw a fearless teenager challenging a powerful system. What many people did not see, however, was his mother’s reaction. While the country was applauding her son, she was worried.In a recent interview with mo.of.everything, Sarthak opened up about how the…
Oil prices have surged since Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the subsequent US naval blockade of Iranian ports, yet crude has stopped well short of the $200-a-barrel levels many analysts once feared. According to maritime intelligence firm TankerTrackers, one key reason is the emergence of alternative shipping networks that are allowing oil…
India’s equity market has been “over-punished” for lacking a direct artificial intelligence (AI) play and for its exposure to rising oil prices, according to BlackRock, which said record foreign outflows and a tougher macroeconomic environment have not undermined the country’s medium- to long-term investment prospects.Natasha Sarkaria, EMEA investment strategy lead of wealth at BlackRock, was…
An ex-Microsoft employee who once won the highly sought-after H-1B visa lottery has returned to India, saying the visa system limited his ability to become an entrepreneur and forced him to rethink the “American Dream.”Hemant Shetty spent around 11 years in US after moving there for higher studies in 2015. Talking to the American Bazaar,…
Photo credit: @OPPCommissioner/X An Indian-origin police officer, Tarun Bali, was killed in the line of duty during an investigation near Hearst in northern Ontario on Tuesday, authorities said. An 18-year-old has been taken into custody as investigators probe the circumstances surrounding his death.Constable Tarun Bali, a member of the Ontario Provincial Police’s (OPP) Dufferin Detachment…
In northwest China’s Shaanxi province, a 13-kilometre stretch of the Qin Straight Road is forcing archaeologists to redraw parts of one of antiquity’s most ambitious transport systems. The corridor, built more than 2,200 years ago under the Qin dynasty, is often described as a “four-lane highway,” a comparison that captures its width but not its…
