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May 6, 2024 3:03 PM

Voting dilemma: Caught between Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, Kotia set to vote on May 13

On May 13, 2024, both Odisha and Andhra Pradesh are scheduled to hold Lok Sabha elections. However, in the Kotia disputed border areas, residents face a dilemma regarding which state to vote in. The Kotia cluster comprises 21 disputed villages nestl...

May 3, 2024 5:04 PM

Hollywood icon Meryl Streep to receive Cannes honorary Palme D’Or

Hollywood actress Meryl Streep is set to be honored with a special Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival's opening ceremony on May 14, the organizers announced on Thursday. Streep, who won the best actress prize at Cannes in 1989, will join the kic...

May 2, 2024 1:02 PM

Greek summer wildfire threat nears, outpacing plans to contain it

When firefighters arrived at a blaze in a pine forest on the Greek island of Rhodes last July, flames were already leaping above the trees into the night sky. The volunteers needed to act fast, but dense vegetation on the forest floor blocked access....

April 30, 2024 3:44 PM

What did people eat before agriculture? New study offers insight

The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way hunter-gatherers had existed since Homo sapiens arose more than 300,000 years ago in Af...

April 30, 2024 12:03 PM

Plastic talks gather steam amid impasse over production limits

With the world still divided over how ambitious its first plastics treaty should be, countries are considering launching a series of smaller meetings before a hoped-for agreement in December. Countries still need to decide on whether the treaty shou...

April 11, 2024 10:04 AM

JNU emerges as highest-ranked Indian university in World

India's Jawaharlal Nehru University has emerged as the highest-ranked Indian university in the World University Rankings list. The ranking was released by London-based higher education analytics firm, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). JNU has been ran...

April 4, 2024 3:42 PM

Strategic Forces Command, DRDO conducts successful flight test of Agni-Prime

The Strategic Forces Command (SFC), along with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), conducted a successful test flight of the next-generation ballistic missile, Agni-Prime from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha around...

March 21, 2024 12:12 PM

Fossil of 16-million-year-old river dolphin found in Peru

Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a 16 million-year-old fossil skull unearthed in Peru of a river dolphin that once swam in waters that are now the Amazon, and whose closest living relative is the South Asian river dolphin in India's Ganges River. ht...

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