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Nineteen persons, including a doctor, two home guards, and a lawyer, have been arrested in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district for allegedly orchestrating a scam by forging post-mortem reports to claim snakebite compensation and siphoning off lakhs, police said on Tuesday (July 21, 2026). The syndicate fabricated medical and revenue documents, fraudulently securing ₹64 lakh in government…
A male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus is seen two months after self-treating a wound with a medicinal plant in the Suaq Balimbing research site, August 25, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters An interesting review by G. Allen et al. in Scientific Reports (16,18690: 2026)reports on how orangutans, which are still present in the Sebangu forest…
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A Federal Judge on Monday (July 20, 2026) ordered Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery to halt their $81 billion merger for at least two weeks, allowing States that are challenging the deal more time to see their case through in Court. Twelve States, led by California, sued to block Paramount’s pending buyout of Warner last…
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The sylvan MCC campus in Chennai The backyard of certain college campuses hardly resemble backyards as we usually understand them: a poky little space, lacklustre, hardly hoofed by human feet. In these colleges, the backyard is an expansive space, supporting an incredible population of furs and feathers; and they pull in human feet given to…
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Lupin, India’s No. 2 drugmaker, spins-out two oncology programmes to Kaveri | Photo Credit: Reuters Global pharma major Lupin has spun-out two oncology programmes to Kaveri Therapeutics Inc for $1..6 million, taking its stake in the U.S. clinical-stage oncology company to 82.2%. Its wholly-owned US subsidiary Lupin Inc (LI), which has entered into a licensing…
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After strike on the Ukrainian ship in the black sea, two Romanian rescue vessels evacuated the ship’s 17 crew members, including three who “required emergency medical care”. | Photo Credit: AP A strike on a ship in the Black Sea carrying propane to the Ukrainian port of Reni wounded three seafarers and forced the crew’s…
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Three people, including a woman and her two daughters, were killed after a fire broke out in a residential building in south Delhi’s Lodhi Road area on Tuesday (July 21, 2026), officials said. The Delhi Fire Services (DFS) said it received a call at 10.21 a.m. informing about fire at a house opposite Chawla Sweets…
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This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows the Beta Pictoris region on March 6, 2014. | Photo Credit: ESO/AP Astronomers have discovered a faint, elusive planet orbiting a young star after more than a decade of cosmic hide-and-seek. In an unusual twist, two groups working independently detected the cold gas giant a few…
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Verifying the age of a child social media user continues to be a thorny problem for lawmakers across Europe [File] | Photo Credit: Reuters France on Monday (July 20, 2026) approved a bill that can enforce a social media ban for children under 15. In addition to restricting children’s use of social media, the bill…
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Environmentalist Sonam Wangchuk during his indefinite hunger strike and CJP’s protest, demanding the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation over alleged examination irregularities and NEET paper leak, at Jantar Mantar, in New Delhi, on July 17, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (July 21, 2026) allowed activist Sonam Wangchuk, currently…
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