Meet Johan Eliasch: Swedish billionaire who bought 400,000 acres of the Amazon forest to save it from deforestation and commercial destruction |

Johan Eliasch, a Swedish-British billionaire better known for building a global sportswear empire, made an unexpected move in 2005. He bought around 400,000 acres of Amazon rainforest in Brazil, not to exploit it but to protect it. By acquiring a logging company that held rights to the land, Eliasch shut down commercial operations and halted…

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‘Never added fuel to fire’: China rejects claims of military support to Iran during US-Israeli conflict

Chinese defence ministry spokesperson Zhang Xiaogang China on Thursday denied reports that its companies had provided satellite imagery and semiconductor chip manufacturing equipment to the Iranian military during the US-Israeli war against Iran, as Beijing also said it had made its “own efforts” to push for a ceasefire.The denial came a day after China said…

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The False Prophet: How Paul Ehrlich predicted India’s death in a racist ‘Population Bomb’ and got it disastrously wrong |

“This universe is finite, its resources, finite…if life is left unchecked, life will cease to exist. It needs correcting,” said Thanos, the Mad Titan before he snapped his fingers and killed half of all life on Earth.While movie fanatics and conspiracy theorists may have thought Marvel was hinting at something in the future, the cinematic…

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Delhi government invites scholarship applications for SC, ST, OBC students for 2025-26, apply by April 30

The Government of Delhi has invited applications for scholarship schemes for students belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC) categories for the academic year 2025-26.According to the official notice, five state-funded schemes and several centrally sponsored schemes are available for eligible students studying in schools, colleges, and universities in…

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Magicbricks, NAREDCO team up for research and broadcast

NEW DELHI: Magicbricks has partnered with National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) to institutionalise research-led conversations, structured policy dialogue, and large-scale knowledge dissemination across India’s real estate ecosystem. This collaboration is set to strengthen data-driven engagement in the system. Poll Is a formalized and regulated growth phase beneficial for the real estate sector? Coming at…

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