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A drone view of a chemical tank after its rupture at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging pulp and paper mill in Longview, Washington, U.S., May 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters The implosion of a chemical tank at a pulp and paper mill in Washington State on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) killed one person and nine…
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Rhabdoblatta subsparsa (Walker, 1868). | Photo Credit: Special arrangement India is home to 191 species of cockroaches and 119 of these species (more than 60% of the species) are endemic to India, a recent publication by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) highlighted. Endemism is the ecological state where a species or taxonomic group is native to…
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Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on May 26, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Gaza health officials said Israeli airstrikes killed at least seven people on Tuesday (May 26, 2026, including five in one attack, in the latest violence to hit the Palestinian territory despite a ceasefire between Israel and…
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Rhabdoblatta subsparsa (Walker, 1868). | Photo Credit: Special arrangement India is home to 191 species of cockroaches and 119 of these species (more than 60% of the species) are endemic to India, a recent publication by the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) highlighted. Endemism is the ecological state where a species or taxonomic group is native to…
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Lindsey Graham. File | Photo Credit: AP Republican Senator Lindsey Graham termed “problematic” the role of Pakistan as a mediator in the United States’ war with Iran. Mr. Graham’s remarks came as Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khwaja Asif said he is not in favour of Islamabad joining the Abraham Accords, which deal with establishing diplomatic, economic…
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Image for representational purposes only. Gurugram’s sex ratio at birth has fallen to 862 girls per 1,000 boys in the first four months of 2026. | Photo Credit: AFP Gurugram Deputy Commissioner Uttam Singh on Tuesday (May 26, 2026) ordered stricter monitoring under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC-PNDT) Act and directed officials to intensify…
For a 10-year-old girl and her seven-year-old brother from a busy commercial area of Coimbatore, the morning of October 29, 2010, a Friday, broke with all promises of a joyous weekend. As school time approached, the siblings were all set to board their regular school van. But things fell apart, in a matter of a…
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Red Cross workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) load on a pickup truck the coffin with the body of Dr. Tibenderana Katho Blaise who worked at the Centre Medical Evangelique (CME) in Hoho commune and died of Ebola virus, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus,…
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P. Iniyan. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Grandmaster P. Iniyan of India clinched the gold in both Open rapid and blitz sections of the Commonwealth chess championships in Kalutara, Sri Lanka, scoring 6.5 points from seven games in both formats. In the rapid section, GM Srihari secured the silver while GM Mitrabha Guha won…
Kerala’s Mohammed Basil clocked 10.63s to win the men’s 100m T47 event in the 8th Indian Open Para Athletics Championships in Bengaluru on Tuesday. Haney (Haryana) claimed the men’s discus throw F37 gold with a best effort of 54.03 m. Haryana’s Sharmila took home the women’s shot put F57 gold with a winning throw of…
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