Accused Shiv Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre NEW DELHI: The Bombay high court on Monday remarked that the local police had shown “favourable treatment” to Shiv Sena corporator Ramesh Mhatre, who is accused of assaulting doctors at a hospital, and directed the deputy commissioner of police (DCP) of the concerned zone to investigate the alleged assault…
Rescued rhinos defy the odds, give birth after returning to the wild Six rhinos left for dead by poachers in South Africa when they were just young calves have all given birth naturally in the wild, marking a big win for wildlife recovery efforts in KwaZulu-Natal.Poachers killed their mothers around 2017, leaving the young rhinos…
Parents of Vaibhav Duggal, the Indian student who committed suicide in Texas, seek $30 million from the university. Vaibhav Duggal, a s 24-year-old medical student of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center took his life in July 2025 while he was still wearing his doctor’s white coat. A year has passed and the parents now…
Representative Image (AI-generated) Around 1200 BCE, several of the eastern Mediterranean’s most powerful civilisations, including the Mycenaean kingdoms, the Hittite Empire, Canaanite city-states and parts of New Kingdom Egypt, began experiencing a period of dramatic decline. Historians have long debated whether warfare, invasions, earthquakes, internal unrest or climate change played the biggest role in this…
Girlguiding unveils first uniform redesign since 1990. The UK’s largest youth organisation for girls, Girlguiding, has introduced its first complete uniform redesign in more than three decades, giving members greater flexibility over what they wear while keeping a shared identity across the organisation.The updated range means members only need to wear one top from the…
CJP warns of another protest; SC slams police action against students during NEET protest SC on protest rights: The Supreme Court said peaceful protest is a constitutional right and that the existence of an agitation alone cannot justify alleged police excesses against demonstrators. CJP warns of fresh protest: The Cockroach Janta Party threatened to resume…
For decades, Florida’s Everglades have faced a silent invasion unfolding beneath the dense vegetation and winding waterways. What began with the arrival of Burmese pythons through the exotic pet trade has become one of the most significant wildlife challenges in the United States. The turning point came around 1992, when Hurricane Andrew damaged facilities in…
Scientists studying ants have found that the brain circuits that caregiving behaviour may have evolved from far older circuits that originally controlled hunger. The research, carried out on clonal raider ants at Rockefeller University and published in the journal Nature, shows that two chemical signals in the ant brain, known as neuropeptide F and allatostatin…
E20 fuel (AI-generated image) NEW DELHI: Delhi-based transport bodies are likely to hold a protest march to Parliament, demanding the withdrawal of ethanol-blended petrol.The planned protest would be led by the Delhi Taxi and Tourist Transporters and Tour Operators Association along with other groups.“We are planning to hold a protest march to Parliament on August…
A nearly 190-year-old pangolin specimen sitting on a museum shelf in London has helped scientists confirm the existence of a distinct pangolin species living in Nepal and northern India. Researchers used DNA extracted from the historic specimen, originally collected in 1836, to settle a long-standing taxonomic debate over whether the Himalayan pangolin was simply a…