Assam government deployed 1,600 personnel from Assam Forest Protection Force (AFPF) for the April 9 assembly elections. Now, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has stayed the order of the Assam government. The issue garnered attention when a group of retired bureaucrats and conservationists across the country wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI)…
On March 24, the Gujarat Legislative Assembly passed its Uniform Civil Code (UCC). The stated purpose was the same as in Uttarakhand, which passed its own code in February 2024: to give women equal inheritance rights regardless of religion. It is a specific, measurable claim. There is now enough data to test it. Start with…
Gray whales undertake long spring time migrations north up the Pacific Coast to feed in the Arctic using up their nutritional reserves along the way, John Calambokidis, a research biologist with the Cascadia Research Collective, told the Associated Press. “When that happens, you often see gray whales in a more desperate search for new areas…
Artemis II mission specialist Jeremy Hansen, left, of the Canadian Space Agency, pilot Victor Glover, second from left, commander Reid Wiseman and mission specialist Christina Koch, right. (Image credits: AP) The four astronauts aboard Nasa’s Artemis II mission entered the moon’s gravitational sphere of influence early Monday morning, moving toward a key milestone in the…
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In a series of interviews, the Artemis II astronauts discussed their life in space. Source link
Quote of the day by Max Planck (Image source: Wikipedia) Science has helped people understand the world in ways once impossible. Scientific discoveries have changed our lives in many ways, from understanding how planets move to discovering what atoms are made of. But even with all of these improvements, there are still a lot of…
In recent years, sweet potato cultivation in the region has received institutional support through a pilot initiative titled “Revival and Sustainable Intensification of Forgotten Food and Neglected Crops in Odisha.” The programme was launched in 2024 and implemented by Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (WASSAN) with the support of the Department of Agriculture and…
For much of their time in space, astronauts are connected to the Earth via an invisible network of communications: voices, information, and continuous assurances from Mission Control. However, for NASA’s Artemis II mission, there is a defining point at which all such connections disappear. The astronauts inside the Orion capsule were silent for approximately 40…
After unconfirmed reports of tiger presence, there is now photographic evidence of the Bengal tiger in Dibru Saikhowa National Park and Biosphere Reserve in Assam. The photographs, obtained through a camera trapping exercise using 60 cameras, are the first documented evidence of the big cat’s presence in this region. Conservationists say this should prompt…