This Georgian proverb of the day teaches us the real meaning of wealth. We often think wealth comes from accumulation. We earn money, buy things, acquire knowledge, gatekeep success secrets, build collections, save resources but there is a profound paradox. Things that we hold too tightly are often lost without being properly used. An old…
Coney Island’s APNA Adult Day Care A prominent Pakistani-American businessman and several associates have been accused of running a massive $38 million Medicaid fraud scheme through two Brooklyn adult day care centres, reports the New York Post.78-year-old Pervez Siddiqui is a well-known community leader. He is a pharmacy owner and member of Brooklyn Community Board…
New York mayor, other leaders push to ban horse-drawn carriage rides after Indian teen Romanch Mahajan’s death. The death of 18-year-old Romanch Mahajan, an Indian teen, falling from a Central Park horse carriage, strengthened calls to end the horse carriage industry as there have been eight horse-related incidents in Central Park over the past 13…
Abraham Alvarez is one of five co-conspirators in a drone attack plot targeting the UFC event at the White House A Mexican national who entered US as a child and later received protection under a programme introduced during Barack Obama’s presidency has been identified by authorities as the alleged ringleader of a foiled attack plot…
‘Crooked logs also make straight fires’ Crooked logs also make straight fires Not every piece of wood is perfectly straight. Yet when placed in a fire, even a twisted log burns just as well as a straight one. That simple observation lies behind one of Germany’s most enduring proverbs: “Krummes Holz gibt auch gerades Feuer.”…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 28 June 1712 “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.”Few opening lines in political philosophy are as famous as this one. Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1762 as the first sentence of…
Indian man narrates how he struggled with a job and an H-1B visa in the US and is now coming back to India ‘feeling completely defeated’. A 25-year-old man narrated his ordeal in the US as he said he is now returning to India after five years, feeling completely defeated. His US story involves a…
The Art of the Deal met the ghost of Versailles. U.S President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a controversial MoU committing, among other things, Washington to help finance Iran’s reconstruction to the tune of $300 billion. TOI correspondent from Washington: The Art of the Deal met the ghost of Versailles. US President Donald Trump on…
The man argued against a 1968 law barring guns from anyone who uses drugs illegally (AP Photo/File) The United States Supreme Court on Thursday issued a unanimous ruling siding with a Texas-based marijuana user who wants to legally own a gun.The justices ruled in favour of Ali Danial Hemani, who argued that a law barring…
A tourist who believed she had lost Dh3,000 forever during a shopping trip in Dubai received an unexpected surprise after Dubai Police tracked down the missing cash and transferred it to her bank account after she had already returned home. Tourist reports cash loss before departure The Arab tourist realised she had misplaced the money…
