World Once known as the ‘Sea of Death’, China’s Taklamakan Desert is turning greener with drone technology | World News July 29, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com For decades, the Taklamakan Desert has symbolised one of nature’s harshest environments, a vast expanse of shifting sand where strong winds, scarce rainfall and extreme temperatures make vegetation difficult to…
World Why do people claim they crossed over to Canada from the US border by mistake? July 29, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Many tourists make the mistake of crossing the border into Canada when visiting Niagara Falls. A recent Reddit post on a person claiming that a friend, a Palestinian refugee, went…
World Quote of the day by Kal Penn: “Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being…” – a reminder that you don’t have to fit into one identity | World News July 29, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Most people get pushed toward picking one lane early on, one career, one identity, one clear answer to give whenever someone asks what they do. Kal Penn, the actor and…
World In 2015, a British swimmer entered Antarctica’s freezing sea wearing only swimming trunks. His campaign helped protect 1.55 million square kilometres | World News July 29, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com In February 2015, British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh entered the freezing waters of Antarctica’s Ross Sea wearing nothing but a pair of swimming trunks, completing a series of five short…
World An American gambler spent $90 million buying 54,000 acres of logged Florida land. Eight million longleaf pines later, a lost forest is returning | World News July 28, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com M.C. Davis spent close to 90 million dollars buying up 54,000 acres of heavily logged land in the Florida Panhandle, turning what timber companies had stripped bare into one of…
World The US buried 85,000 cubic metres of nuclear waste beneath a Pacific island. Now the ocean is rising around it | World News July 28, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com On a remote island in the Marshall Islands, a concrete dome built more than four decades ago holds roughly 85,000 cubic metres of radioactive waste left over from the United…
World ‘Corruption on Earth’: Iran indicts Trump over Khamenei killing, faces death penalty July 28, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Iran hands down death penalty indictment against Trump over Khamenei death Iran has issued an indictment against US President Donald Trump over the killing of former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali…
World In 1998, an Arizona man secretly cut holes through Tucson’s street curbs to steal stormwater. The illegal experiment eventually changed city policy | World News July 28, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com In 1998, a Tucson resident named Brad Lancaster took a saw to the curb outside his home and cut six openings into it, creating small channels to divert rainwater off…
World ‘Don’t praise me’: Punjabi man stops van, rushes to save autistic boy from being hit at busy Surrey traffic July 28, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Punjabi man Moti Johal stopped his van and rushed to save an autistic toddler amid heavy traffic in Surrey. Moti Jahal is overwhelmed as his video of saving a child…
World Trump’s two-front challenge: Shades of 1914 as Zelenskyy and Netanyahu converge on Washington July 28, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Netanyahu, Trump, Zelenskyy TOI correspondent from Washington: For more than three years, the war in Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Iran have unfolded as separate geopolitical dramas. On…
