Around 100 volunteers collected 11 million seeds by hand across Scotland; nearly 8 million native trees are now being grown to rebuild its disappearing Atlantic rainforest |

Volunteers hand-collect native tree seeds from Scotland’s remote woodlands to help restore the country’s endangered Atlantic rainforest and native forests. In one of Scotland’s largest citizen-led woodland restoration efforts, around 100 volunteers have spent the past three years hand-collecting more than 11 million rare native tree seeds from remote forests, islands and rugged coastlines. The…

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India-UK FTA: What it means for India’s agriculture, farmers and MSMEs and other sectors

The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) came into force today, July 15, 2026, alongside its companion pact, the Double Contribution Convention (DCC), a social security agreement.Commerce secretary Rajesh Agrawal called it a “gold standard” agreement spanning 30 chapters, going well beyond tariff cuts. The deal was signed last year in London on July…

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Zero Temple: World’s oldest engraved number ‘0’ is hidden inside this ancient temple in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh; here’s how to reach this mathematical wonder

Ever heard of the Zero Temple? Hidden inside the grand Gwalior Fort in Madhya Pradesh is a shrine that changed the course of human civilisation. We are talking about the Chaturbhuj Temple, famous as the Zero Temple. It is home to one of the world’s oldest known stone inscriptions featuring the numeral “0” in the…

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‘Closer to ageing parents, growing kids’: Meta engineer’s post on moving back to Bengaluru after 18 years in US goes viral | Bengaluru News

Sharing a photograph of an airport trolley piled high with luggage, Gururajan wrote that he and his family had recently moved to Bengaluru after nearly two decades in the US. (Photo credit: Balaji Gururajan /LinkedIn) BENGALURU: A LinkedIn post by Meta engineering leader Balaji Gururajan about returning to India after spending 18 years in the…

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He lost both his arms at age two in a farm accident. Then he taught himself to eat, write, drive tractors, repair machinery and run a 1,300-acre farm using only his feet, building a YouTube following of more than 134,000 subscribers | World News

A devastating farm accident when he was just two and a half years old could have changed the course of Andy Detwiler’s life forever. Instead, it became the beginning of an extraordinary journey of resilience, determination and self-belief. After losing both his arms in a grain auger accident on his family’s Ohio farm in 1972,…

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