World In 2014, Virginia removed a dam that had blocked migrating fish for over 70 years; nearly 130 miles of upstream spawning and nursery habitat reopened September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com For decades, a concrete barrier on Virginia’s Appomattox River stood between migratory fish and more than 120 miles of upstream habitat. In 2014, its removal changed that. The Harvell Dam…
World Scientists sent a robot two miles below California and found a bigfin squid; it was the first live Northeast Pacific sighting September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Photo credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Two miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California, in a world of near total darkness and crushing…
World ‘Russia ready to negotiate’: Zelenskyy after meeting US envoys Witkoff and Kushner September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday (local time) said US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff told him that Russia is “ready to negotiate” when they…
World Meet Suborno Isaac Bari: The maths prodigy who caught Barack Obama’s attention, skipped five grades and graduated high school at 12 | World News September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com At 2 years old, Suborno Isaac Bari was already doing something that would later become a defining detail of his childhood: reciting the periodic table. Mathematics was developing alongside that…
World In 1895, lightning ignited a massive West Virginia gas well, sending flames 200 feet into the sky as crowds gathered to witness one of America’s most extraordinary fires September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Lightning ignited a massive West Virginia gas well, sending flames 200 feet into the sky (Image Credit: West Virginia Explorer) In 1895, a lightning strike turned an already uncontrollable natural…
World Yemen conflict widens: Houthis claim strikes on Saudi airport, air base and Aramco sites September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Drones and ballistic missiles at King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait and Abha International Airport in southern Saudi Arabia. (GIF: @theinformant_x) Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said on September 8 that…
World All known life uses 4 DNA letters; UC San Diego showed an existing bacterial enzyme can accurately read and transcribe 8, doubling the genetic alphabet with synthetic letters September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Representative image of DNA All life on Earth, from bacteria to blue whales, writes its genetic instructions using the same four-letter alphabet. These four DNA bases, usually referred to as…
World ‘Strike our assets & you get struck’: Iran threatens US energy assets in Gulf after latest clashes September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Iran threatens US oil, gas assets. Iran has threatened to retaliate against any new US attacks on its assets, warning that American oil and gas interests and energy infrastructure across…
World Iran doubles petrol price for heavy users as currency touches record low September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Iran doubles petrol prices Iran has doubled the price of petrol for consumers who exceed their monthly quota, putting a higher cost on heavy fuel use as households already grapple…
World PLA report warns Chinese cities of potential nuclear attacks, flags Japan as ‘threat’ September 8, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com A new study by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force has warned Chinese cities to prepare for potential nuclear attacks, singling out Japan as a “major danger signal” to…
