What if the secret to earning more from farmland was not buying more land, but making every available patch work harder? For Manpreet Singh, a 34-year-old farmer from Rahim Ke Uttar village in Punjab’s Ferozepur district, this question has shaped an increasingly diversified agricultural business.In 2020, Singh began raising onion seedlings on just 10 marlas…

Chana married his first wife, Zathiangi, when he was 17 years old. In a village in Mizoram, one man became known around the world for the size of his family. Ziona Chana, who died in June 2021 at the age of 75, was widely described as the head of the world’s largest family. At one…

Glimpses from Asian Games 2026 opening ceremony. (Reuters Photos) The Asian Games are officially underway in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on Saturday and the numbers alone tell part of the story: this is a sporting event that is bigger than the Paris Olympics in athlete participation, while also offering a programme that looks markedly different from the…

Hurricane Andrew helped unleash Burmese pythons into Florida’s wild, here’s how Hurricane Andrew in 1992 devastated South Florida, causing extensive damage not just to property but also creating an environmental crisis, which would prove to be a problem for decades to come. After the hurricane, many Burmese pythons, a species of large snakes, found themselves…