Born in Pakistan, Haider Ali now represents UAE. (Image: Special Arrangement) Born in a small village in Pakistan where cricketing facilities were nonexistent and education was prioritised over sport, Haider Ali‘s path to the UAE national team was anything but conventional. He never played age-group cricket, worked as a night-time waiter, sold fruits during the…
MELBOURNE: The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh without being noticed. We have probably all consumed different body parts of fruit flies – without any known ill effects. But the…
KOTA: Rajasthan’s Kota, the coaching hub for medical and engineering aspirants that has been in headlines for student suicides in recent years, saw a 38% decline in such cases in 2024 compared to the previous year, with 16 cases documented this year as against 26 in 2023.The district administration attributed the dip in student suicides…