Guwahati: Assam’s Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary has recorded its first-ever sighting of the rare migratory Smew (Mergellus albellus), marking a conservation milestone for the protected area, Forest and Climate Change Minister Jayanta Malla Baruah said on Sunday. Alongside the Smew, teams also recorded the endangered Bengal Florican, highlighting the sanctuary’s growing importance as a safe habitat…
New Delhi: From Vedic hymns and epic tales to Mughal courts, colonial encounters and modern tiger reserves, a new book traces the tiger’s place in India’s civilisation over more than 5,000 years, bringing together 82 stories, historical accounts and wildlife photographs in an attempt to capture the enduring cultural and conservation significance of the country’s…
Perhaps Abhijit Dipke might have thought twice before christening his so-called Gen Z movement against the Modi Government’s education policies as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)—if only he had remembered Amitabh Bachchan’s unforgettable cockroach lesson from Hum. Released in the early 1990s, the film had a famously irreverent dialogue about two varieties of cockroaches: those…
Houston (US): Texas AI Learning Centre, set up in collaboration with the IIT Kharagpur Outreach Network, was inaugurated at the Tagore Centre here to advance artificial intelligence education, skill development, and industry solutions. Coinciding with India’s 80th Independence Day and IIT Kharagpur’s 75th anniversary, the facility was jointly launched by India’s Consul General in Houston,…
Paradip: A Panama-flagged cargo ship with 24 crew members, mostly Chinese, on board sank in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday, about 240 nautical miles off the Odisha coast, officials said. Twenty of the crew members on the ship, MV Ocean Winner, were Chinese, three Myanmarese and one Bangladeshi, they said. The ship was heading…
Bhubaneshwar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced that the fourth Saturday of August will be observed as ‘Garima Diwas’ in order to create awareness of the safety and security of sanitation workers and strengthen their social security. Majhi said this while addressing a national workshop on “Mission Zero – Ending Fatality in Sanitation Work”…
Pune: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said he has faced abuse for years for questioning the government on issues it dislikes, but asserted that he would not be “straightened up”. Gandhi made the remarks while interacting with Bhojpuri singer Neha Rathore, known for her satirical songs criticising the government, during his party’s youth outreach…
For decades, Bharatiyas have been fed a remarkably convenient version of the freedom struggle: the Congress fought the British, Mahatma Gandhi led the nation, Jawaharlal Nehru became the first Prime Minister and, almost as a natural consequence, the British packed their bags and left. Now, the time has come to call that bluff—particularly in the…
Has India become the next big test of the German tunneling giant? Shrikant Rao The most revealing development around Herrenknecht today may not be happening beneath a mountain or beneath one of Europe’s great cities, but in the industrial belt north of Chennai. Herrenknecht has been in India since 2007 and its established Indian operation…
The first flight of the indigenously developed Divyastra Mk3 is a positive step, as the Indian Army increasingly relies on UAS technology in warfare. Today’s warfare is undergoing a fundamental shift: battles are no longer measured solely by the number of tanks, fighter jets, missiles, and troops. UAS are increasingly becoming the preferred tool for…
