Month: August 2024

Parents hoping to adopt orphans of Wayanad landslide may not have their wish granted

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Parents hoping to adopt orphans of Wayanad landslide may not have their wish granted

Toys procured for the children of Wayanad who were orphaned by the recent landslide. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Compassionate parents hoping to adopt orphans of Wayanad landslide may not have their wish granted. After registering themselves with the government agencies handling the adoption, they will have to wait in the queue. Even then, they…

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Nation

Will be injustice to SC communities if internal reservation is delayed by Karnataka government: Basavaraj Bommai

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Will be injustice to SC communities if internal reservation is delayed by Karnataka government: Basavaraj Bommai

 Basavaraj Bommai. Representational Image. File | Photo Credit: PTI Former Chief Minister and BJP MP Basavaraj Bommai has urged the Congress government in Karnataka to take immediate measures to provide internal reservation to Scheduled Caste communities in the wake of the Supreme Court upholding such internal quota for them.  Mr. Bommai, whose government had recommended…

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When Jamsetji did not shy away from shutting the first business of Tata Group that bore the Tata name

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When Jamsetji did not shy away from shutting the first business of Tata Group that bore the Tata name

Known for the successful ventures he established, Jamsetji Tata, founder of the Tata Group, did not shy away from taking tough calls and making strategic choices to exit from unviable business as shown by the shutting of Tata Shipping Line in the 1890s, according to a new book. He had started the ‘Tata Line’, the…

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Business

As in Kerala, local climate processes can worsen climate extremes | Analysis

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As in Kerala, local climate processes can worsen climate extremes | Analysis

Tragedies like the Wayanad landslides repeat themselves partly because their lessons are not brought to bear on our understanding of the local amplifiers of extreme events. A view of a mountain of the Western Ghats in Wayanad, Kerala, November 15, 2022. | Photo Credit: Nakkeeran Raveendran/Unsplash At no place on the earth is the climate…

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Science

How do high-altitude birds take to the air when thin air offers little lift?

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How do high-altitude birds take to the air when thin air offers little lift?

In high altitudes, despite the air being of low density, which makes the bird wings produce less lift and more difficult to remain aloft, high-altitude birds such as bar-headed geese, cranes, and bar-tailed godwits have been seen at high altitudes of over 6,000 metres. One possibility of how birds at high altitudes take to the air…

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Underwater mapping reveals insights into melting of Antarctica’s ice shelves

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Underwater mapping reveals insights into melting of Antarctica’s ice shelves

New research documents never-seen-before shapes formed at the base of a West Antarctic ice shelf. An autonomous underwater vehicle found these features — including tear-shaped indents — exclusively in areas with higher melting rates by underlying warm ocean water. An ice shelf is a mass of glacial ice, fed from land by tributary glaciers, that floats in the sea…

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IND in SL, Second ODI: Teams seek perfect formula to crack the finishing code

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IND in SL, Second ODI: Teams seek perfect formula to crack the finishing code

It is often said, ‘lightning never strikes twice’. India and Sri Lanka, though, seem to be on a mission to prove the saying wrong after playing their second tied encounter in as many games, albeit in different formats. In the third and final T20I in Pallekele, the Lankans made a mess of a small chase,…

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Sports