For more than 100 years, Uruguay’s grasslands and river forests were missing a native mammal that once moved through the country in social herds. That animal was the collared peccary, a compact, bristly species that disappeared locally in the late 1800s and is now being brought back through a long and carefully managed reintroduction effort.The…
In February 2015, British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh entered the freezing waters of Antarctica’s Ross Sea wearing nothing but a pair of swimming trunks, completing a series of five short but record breaking swims in temperatures as low as minus 1.7 degrees Celsius. The swims were not simply a personal endurance challenge. Pugh, who serves…
Dhanbad: To encourage quality nutrition services, early childhood education and innovative practices at anganwadi centres, the district social welfare and social security department, under the district administration, are jointly going to organise the “Outstanding Anganwadi Centre Award Ceremony-2026.” The awards will be presented during the Independence Day celebrations on Aug 15 at Golf Ground in…
Amazon has asked the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to approve launching up to 5,105 internet satellites for a new direct-to-device (D2D) satellite network. This will mark the tech giant’s latest step toward competing with SpaceX‘s Starlink Mobile. The proposed constellation would enable compatible smartphones and other devices to connect directly to satellites rather than…
Bhagalpur: CM Samrat Choudhary on Tuesday inaugurated 10 model schools for Tarapur assembly constituency through virtual mode during a programme organised at Kisan Vedic High School and Saraswati Vidya Niketan in Launa village of Munger district. He also inaugurated a modern library, a computer classroom and a science laboratory at the two schools.The CM later…
A US Army Patriot missile deployed for Operation Epic Fury. (Image credit: US Central Command) With the shortage of US missiles constantly making headlines since the beginning of the conflict in Iran, that has now spread to the entire West Asian theatre, the US Army has placed its first order in three decades for the…
Ghosting has seeped into almost every kind of relationship we have. Ghosting used to belong to dating apps. Two people would trade messages, maybe meet once or twice, and then one would vanish, no explanation, no goodbye. It was rude and unsettling, but it stayed contained to relationships that had barely started.That containment is gone….
MEA rejects Pak-organised polls in PoK NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Tuesday dismissed the legislative assembly elections being held in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoK), calling the exercise a “cosmetic” attempt by Islamabad to legitimise its “illegal occupation” of the region. Responding to reports on the polls, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal reiterated…
For centuries, people debated bird migration, lacking concrete evidence for their theories. A wounded stork found in Germany in 1822 accidentally settled this long-standing debate. This bird carried a spear from tropical wood, indicating its long journey from Africa. The “Pfeilstorch” became a key exhibit, proving seasonal bird movements across continents. Similar cases of birds…
Every Apple user eventually gets an offer they can’t refuse: buy another Apple product. An iPhone leads to AirPods, which leads to a Mac, then an Apple Watch, iCloud, Apple Music and AppleCare+. The ecosystem has always been designed to pull users deeper in. Now it’s asking them to pay more at every step. There…