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Delhi BJP leaders meet L-G, seek probe into ‘graft’ by discoms




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Delhi HC asks ED to respond to Kejriwal’s plea challenging summons

AAP leader has challenged a trial court’s September 17 order rejecting his plea challenging the summons issued to him on ED’s complaint in a money laundering case related to the alleged Delhi excise scam




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Elephant, calf found dead at Thenkara




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Delhi HC pulls up govt. for not complying with its order on shifting Asha Kiran shelter home inmates




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Trump picks former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be Ambassador to Israel

President-elect Donald Trump will nominate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel




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MP byelections: Last-minute tensions ahead of voting after firing in Vijaypur

The byelections, first since the Lok Sabha elections, have somethings at stake for both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress




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Booker Prize 2024: British writer Samantha Harvey wins for space-station novel 'Orbital'

She called the book a “space pastoral” about six astronauts circling the Earth, which she began writing during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns




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Yemen’s Houthi rebels launch drones and missiles at U.S. warships near the Red Sea but do no damage

Pentagon press secretary said the Iranian-backed Houthis launched at least eight drones, five anti-ship ballistic missiles and three anti-ship cruise missiles at the USS Stockdale and the USS Spruance




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Morning Digest: British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins Booker Prize for fiction; Big names face test as Jharkhand votes in Phase I, and more

Here is a select list of stories to start the day




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Assistant Commissioner is empowered to seek bank guarantee for release of vehicles seized in cow slaughter Act case, says court




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It will be yakshagana all over the coastal belt for the next six months




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Donald Trump names Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to lead newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

The U.S. President elect said their work would conclude by July 4, 2026, adding that a smaller and more efficient government would be a "gift" to the country on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.




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Goods train derails in Telangana's Peddapalli; 20 trains cancelled, 10 diverted

Eleven wagons of the goods train carrying iron ore derailed between Raghavapuram and Ramagundam





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Only if Sushant had believed his lines from Chhichhore

'Isn't 11.3 million Instagram followers and 1.9 million Twitter followers enough to make you feel wanted and loved as a successful star?' 'Can a huge bank balance, a fleet of fancy cars, and a big house assure you happiness and contentment in life?' 'For Sushant, it did not.'




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Bengalis feel we have lost a family member

'He always seemed one of us, part of the great aspiring middle class -- his values, his simplicity, even the intellectual snobbery which he could barely hide,' observes Mousumi Sengupta.




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Oscar nod or not, Jallikattu's selection is a win-win

The Oscars is prestigious and all artists covet it but ultimately, the business of winning is ruthless and political. And India has seldom risen to the challenge, argues Sukanya Verma.




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A REBEL Called Preity Zinta

'I am not the kind of person who will stand up and complain. I have no complaints against anyone. If I've been away from the entertainment industry, it's because I am not into selling myself.'





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Is Ms Marvel Really EPIC?

<em>Ms Marvel</em>'s first episode did not bore me, but it made me question the very existence of the first Muslim superhero, observes Subhash K Jha.




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Lijo Jose Pellissery's Women And Mine

Pellissery's women continue to express the beauty in our common humanity. And often, these women go so far into expressing our hopes, desires, absurdities and follies that they end up acting at variance with the ethical prescriptions of our age. And this, I believe, is precisely why they remain "invisible" to a whole bunch of viewers, says Sreehari Nair.




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The Plight Of Food Delivery Boys

<em>Zwigato</em> urges viewers to think critically about the kind of unethical behaviour that food delivery workers have to put up with on a daily basis because of insensitive customers, observes Chintan Girish Modi.




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Shah Rukh Khan Is A Lifelong Learner

From the pinnacle of <em>Veer Zara</em>'s teary romance, the transition to <em>Pathaan</em> and <em>Jawan</em> must have entailed a lot of resetting, rewiring, and recalibration in the mind.But SRK has done it. And done it well, notes Sandeep Goyal.




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Why Sahir Ludhianvi Is Relevant Today

While the country is gripped by Ram Mandir frenzy, Danish Husain -- without shouting from the rooftops -- silently staged his opinion with this play on one of India's best-known poets, observes Neeta Kolhatkar.




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Merry Christmas: I Felt Shortchanged

If you have never seen Sriram Raghavan fly, you would hardly realise that this time, he is happy in his cage, this time he isn't reaching for the skies, notes Sreehari Nair.




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A Delightful Recreation

Collection of some of Thomas Jefferson's favorite musical pieces recorded on period musical instruments in the Governor's Palace in Colonial Williamsburg.




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Digital ethology [electronic resource] : human behavior in geospatial context / edited by Tomáš Paus and Hye-Chung Kum.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]




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Disability, the environment, and colonialism [electronic resource] / edited by Tatiana Konrad.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2024.




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World review [electronic resource] : environmental and sustainability education in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals / editors, Marco Rieckmann, Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, Department of Education, University of Vechta, German

Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press , 2024.




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Environmental and Natural Resources Economics [electronic resource] / by Xiangzheng Deng, Malin Song, Zhihui Li, Fan Zhang, Yuexian Liu.

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.




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Environmental innovation [electronic resource] : an action plan for saving the economy and the planet by 2050 / Jack Buffington.

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2024]




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Foundations of social ecological economics [electronic resource] : the fight for revolutionary change in economic thought / Clive L. Spash.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.




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Leading Indian woman scientist is International Brain Research Organisation’s president-elect

The first scientist from a developing country to be appointed to the top position of IBRO, Shubha Tole is currently the dean of graduate studies at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai




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Rain may have helped form the first cells, kick-starting life as we know it

How did the earliest, simplest cells hold it all together before elaborate membrane structures evolved?




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Nobel Prize for microRNA find underscores RNA’s primacy in biology

When Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the Nobel Prize last week, 581 clinical trials involving miRNA had been registered in the U.S. alone




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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Ada Lovelace

This week’s Sci-five quiz is on Ada Lovelace.




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What do the Atlantic Ocean hurricane forecasts foretell for India?

Climate models forecast cyclones indirectly, based on metrics that indicate cyclonic activity and its potential intensity




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Watch: Nobel prize science winners 2024 | All you need to know




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Black holes in Webb data allay threat to cosmology’s standard model

A new study challenges the findings of older ones that had concluded the universe had spiral galaxies sooner than expected




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Major Boeing-made communications satellite disintegrates in orbit

While Intelsat 33e had a history of issues while in orbit, its unexpected disintegration has heightened concerns about space junk




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Scientists develop supplement to protect bees from pesticides

The supplement is created with flavonoids, plant-derived secondary metabolites known for their health benefits.




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Researchers meld AI and genomics to find thousands of new viruses

It’s important to anticipate RNA viruses and how they could evolve because they mutate rapidly and adapt quickly to new conditions




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Chinese startup to sell tickets for 2027 space tourism flights

Deep Blue Aerospace will put the tickets up for sale on October 24 for a suborbital flight




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ISRO satellites tracking cyclone Dana since October 20

ISRO says satellite inputs help in better monitoring and mitigation of cyclone threat




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Four astronauts return to Earth after being delayed by Boeing’s capsule trouble and Hurricane Milton

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a space station mission that lasted almost eight months




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Stem cell transplant recipients demystify the fate of donated stem cells




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What are melanistic tigers? | Explained

Odisha has moved a tigress from Maharashtra to its Similipal to address the increasing number of pseudo-melanistic tigers




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Study finds long-term dynamics of transplanted stem cells




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Why can’t light microscopes see inside cells?




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Model by Chennai, Pune team predicts birth weight from routine scans

Scientists say the model could reduce the need for multiple ultrasounds scans once it is validated at greater scale