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Forests are home to 80% of the world’s terrestrial plant and animal species and crucial for sequestering. | Photo Credit: AFP Deforestation continued last year at a rate far beyond pledges to end the practice by 2030, according to a major study published on Tuesday. Forests nearly the size of Ireland were lost in 2023,…
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Bhavish Aggarwal and Kunal Kamra were engaged in a heated spat last week New Delhi: RPG Group Chairman Harsh Goenka on Tuesday took a dig at Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal over his recent spat with comedian Kunal Kamra. Taking to his official X account, Mr Goenka said he uses his Ola if he has to…
Yuvraj Singh wasn’t happy with Abhishek Sharma’s performance in 1st T20I against Bangladesh© X (Twitter) Chasing a mediocre target of 128 runs against Bangladesh in the first T20I on Sunday, India openers Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson looked to give the team a fine start. Just as the duo looked to have settled…
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New Delhi: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday issued a stark warning to Lebanon, claiming the country could face a similar fate to Gaza if it continues to allow Hezbollah to operate within its borders. His statement came as the Israeli military intensified its offensive against Hezbollah along Lebanon’s southern coastline, deploying additional troops…
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More than a dozen States and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday (October 8, 2024), saying that the popular short-form video app is designed to be addictive to kids and harms their mental health. The lawsuits stem from a national investigation into TikTok, which was launched in March 2022 by a…
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New York: A New York man who posted a sex video of a 16-year-old girl on the adults-only website OnlyFans pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of distributing child pornography. Matthew Richardson, 36, faces five to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he’s sentenced on Dec. 19. The plea agreement…
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In his quest to understand how each cell of an organism interprets the same genome in a different way, researcher Sascha Duttke wondered whether there might be any undiscovered rules of biology. The human genome contains information about our development, functioning, growth, and reproduction, and all of it takes up only about 2 MB of…
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Smoke billows over Beirut southern suburbs after a strike, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon October 8, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli forces have killed the would-be successors of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, without…
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United Nations: Lebanon is “on the verge of an all-out war”, but there is still time to stop, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. Speaking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Guterres said on Tuesday that the Middle East “is a powder keg with many parties holding the match”. “I have warned…
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Washington: An Afghan man was arrested in Oklahoma for allegedly plotting an election day “terrorist attack,” the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday. The man, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, living in Oklahoma City after entering the U.S. in 2021 on a special immigrant visa, was plotting the attack in the name of Islamic State,…
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