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Tiger trapped in Kerala’s Pathanamthitta after repeated attacks on livestock
48+ min ago Published - December 22, 2025 09:33 am IST - Pathanamthitta An adult tiger that had frequently strayed into human settlements and attacked domestic animals was trapped by the Forest department in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala on Monday (December 22, 2025), officials said. According to forest officials, the…...
NASA loses contact with MAVEN, which reached Mars with Mangalyaan
1+ hour, 12+ min ago NASA has lost contact with its Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, the Mars orbiter that has worked for more than a decade to study how the planet's atmosphere is escaping into space. The spacecraft went silent in early…...
IAF MI-17 helicopter transports Pench tigress from MP's Sukatra airstrip to Rajasthan
1+ hour, 44+ min ago Published - December 22, 2025 08:38 am IST - SEONI, MADHYA PRADESH A tigress that had been eluding the authorities of Pench Reserve in Madhya Pradesh's Seoni for the last 24 days was captured and successfully airlifted to Rajasthan for relocation in an Indian Air Force…...
What’s the future of fintech and banking in an agentic AI era?
2+ hour, 12+ min ago India's banks, insurers, and fintech firms are prototyping, testing and deploying a set of AI-infused measures in their customer facing functions. Some of these firms are undergoing a new shift: from software buyers to software builders. From his vantage point,…...
Southern Ocean carbon ‘anomaly’ reveals what models can still miss
4+ hour, 22+ min ago Published - December 22, 2025 06:00 am IST - BENGALURU The chilly waters of the Southern Ocean that surround Antarctica like a moat are among the least explored and least understood of all the world's oceans. This is stark because we also know that this…...
Lessons from China on tackling pollution
9+ hour, 7+ min ago India need not emulate China's political system to achieve a turnaround, but it can draw on the principles that made China's progress possible China and India have long grappled with severe air pollution Yet their trajectories over the past decade…...
Why the world needs mathematics now more than ever
9+ hour, 44+ min ago As an educator who has taught mathematics for over two and a half decades across India and Bhutan, I have often faced a familiar " and frustrating " question: "Why should we study mathematics?" It is a query that echoes through classrooms,…...
Beta Vembanad Forum presents projects for the restoration of Vembanad Lake
14+ hour, 17+ min ago CSR funds to be mobilised for lake conservation The Beta Vembanad Forum has presented nine projects aimed at the ecological restoration of Vembanad Lake, the largest wetland in the State The projects were presented by experts at the Beta Vembanad…...
Human-wildlife conflict: Bhupender Yadav chairs meetings to review measures, discuss project updates
14+ hour, 44+ min ago Updated - December 21, 2025 07:41 pm IST The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) on Sunday (December 21, 2025) appraised the expansion of Project Cheetah and reviewed measures to address human-wildlife conflict at high-level meetings chaired by Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav at the Sundarbans Tiger…...
Soil tests in Kuttanad paddy fields show aluminium levels 39 to 165 times above safe limits
16+ hour ago Call for urgent government intervention. Analysis shows concentrations between 77.51 and 334.10 ppm, primarily linked to increasing soil acidity that threatens crop health and the livelihoods of local farmers. Soil tests in Kuttanad, the rice bowl of Kerala, have revealed dangerously high…...