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With the coming of the Industrial Revolution, coal mines became deeper and deeper to meet the growing demand of fuel for industrial machinery. However, deeper mines also brought with them innumerous dangers for the miners themselves. We explain how canaries became indispensable lifelines in the risky profession, eventually lending their name to a popular English idiom.

The exodus of prominent party members has only added to the troubles of Imran as several other PTI leaders, who have firmly stood next to him, are languishing in jail.

Full details will be known only after an inquiry. Prima facie, a signalling error, which led the Coromandel Express to go off its designated track and ram a stationary goods train from behind, seems to be the culprit.

US debt ceiling: The deal lifts the government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, the limit to which it could borrow money for its functioning. Here are the key points of the deal.

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith lost a high-profile defamation case, with the judge finding that the former SAS soldier committed war crimes.

The weight of an aircraft is a crucial component that governs the choices a pilot has to make while operating the flight.

What is today Telangana was earlier a part of the erstwhile Hyderabad State, then merged with Andhra to form Andhra Pradesh before finally getting statehood in 2014.

As tensions rise again between Serbia and Kosovo, the Serbian tennis great has drawn criticism for his comments — but has insisted that 'it is what it is' and 'it's something that I stand for'.

Sukhvilas has been under the scanner from the Aam Admi Party government for violating environment and land acquisition laws.

The pencil was gifted to Adolf Hitler by his long-term partner Eva Braun, who met him for the first time in Munich in 1929. According to reports, both of them married each other just days before they died by suicide in April 1945.