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Flowering plants – from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes to maple, oak, apple and cherry trees as well as roses, tulips, daisies and dandelions and even the corpse flower and voodoo lily – are cornerstones of Earth’s ecosystems and essential for humankind. | Photo Credit: Reuters Flowering plants – from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes…
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Venice is one of the world’s top tourist destinations Venice: The ticket office is in place and the inspectors are primed — Venice launches a new scheme Thursday to charge day-trippers looking to enter the historic Italian city, a world first intended to ease the pressure of mass tourism. Visitors entering the UNESCO World Heritage…
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India is the biggest market outside North America and Europe for Hyundai Bengaluru: South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group will launch its first India-manufactured electric vehicles by 2025 as the parent of the Hyundai and Kia brands looks to boost its presence in the nascent space dominated by Tata Motors. Production of Hyundai’s locally manufactured EVs…
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An artist’s impression of a type of neutron star called a magnetar. Magnetars are the cosmic objects with the strongest magnetic fields ever measured in the universe. | Photo Credit: Reuters Magnetars are among the universe’s most extreme objects – a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic…
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Shehbaz Sharif | Photo Credit: REUTERS Pakistan business leaders in an interactive session with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif urged him to initiate trade talks with India to promote business and commerce which would greatly benefit the economy of the cash-strapped country. Posing tough questions during an hour-long meeting at the Sindh CM House here in…
File picture of a mural in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants, Human Rights Watch said in a report | Photo Credit: AP Military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many…
File photo Raipur: A District Reserve Guard (DRG) constable was killed and another policeman injured due to an accidental discharge of a firearm in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, officials said on Thursday. The incident took place at around 11 pm on Wednesday when a joint team of the DRG and Bastar Fighter, both units of state…
PM Modi said Congress was working against the constitution by giving religion-based reservation. Sagar (Madhya Pradesh): Continuing his sharp attack on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday alleged that the party “hates the country’s constitution, hates identity of India” and is preparing to cut the quota of SCs, STs and OBCs and to…
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The Moulin Rouge cabaret is located in northern Paris Paris: The blades of the Moulin Rouge windmill, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, collapsed during the night, firefighters said on Thursday, just months before the French capital hosts the Olympics. There was no risk of further collapse, Paris firefighters said. The reason for…
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The problem of high food inflation will be “less severe” in India going ahead, as modern supply chains with diversified sources can help quickly address sudden spikes in prices of specific food items, RBI Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Ashima Goyal said on April 25. Stressing that the share of food in the household budget…