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Back in the late 1800s, Hawaii’s booming sugarcane industry had a serious rat problem. Rats were tearing through the cane fields, cutting into profits, and plantation owners wanted a quick fix. Their answer was to bring in the small Indian mongoose, a fast, sharp-toothed little predator known for hunting rats and snakes back in its…
A modern state is judged not only by the scale of its infrastructure or the reach of its welfare schemes, but also by the clarity and confidence with which it governs its territory. Border management, therefore, is not merely a question of physical security. It is closely linked to administrative planning, public service delivery and…
Long before the Arctic looked the way it does now, a stretch of Norway’s northern coastline supported an unexpectedly rich mix of wildlife. That picture has emerged from a cave where thousands of years of natural deposits quietly protected the remains of animals that lived during a comparatively mild phase of the last Ice Age….
NEW DELHI: BJP on Monday stepped up its attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, demanding that he explain his recent foreign trip while also accusing him and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of neglecting the constituency after a landslide in Kerala’s Wayanad claimed eight lives.The landslide occurred on July 7 at the site of the Anakkampoyil-Meppadi twin-tube…
Iranian leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s first public address after his father’s funeral comes with a ‘revenge list,’ naming 13 world leaders after the death of the country’s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.The online “revenge list”, published late on Saturday by Hamshahri, names 13 foreign leaders whom it portrays as targets following Khamenei’s death. The publication…
‘Satluj’ actor Varun Badola revealed he hasn’t watched the Diljit Dosanjh starrer yet and refuses to watch a pirated version, calling the film’s ban “robbery under broad daylight.” He recalled being unaware of the film’s release initially. The Jaswant Singh Khalra biopic also stars Arjun Rampal, Suvinder Vicky and Geetika Vidya. Ever since its quiet…
The renewed interest from foreign investors could help extend the recovery in the benchmark NSE Nifty 50 index. (AI image) Foreign investors seem to be turning bullish on Indian equities again with more than $1 billion invested in the last week. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has projected that these overseas inflows could strengthen further as…
India vs England, Lord’s Test Day 3 Live Score: Yastika Bhatia marked one of the greatest moments of her career by becoming the first woman to score a Test century at Lord’s, before India’s fast bowlers dismantled England’s batting line-up to move within touching distance of a commanding victory in the historic one-off Test. The…
Gautam Gambhir and Shreyas Iyer (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has criticised India’s approach after the team suffered a 0-4 T20I series defeat against England, saying sacking head coach Gautam Gambhir, captain Shreyas Iyer or a few players would be the “easy thing to do” but would not solve the real…
Europe just unveiled a reusable rocket concept that could challenge SpaceX’s Starship As SpaceX pushes ahead with Starship, researchers in Europe have proposed a different approach to building heavy rockets. A new study by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) presents a concept called RLV C5, a partially reusable launch vehicle that could give Europe its…
