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Sizing up one of the world’s most ambitious eco-projects : NPR
Women install barricades to halt the shifting dunes that threaten to swamp the oasis outside their village of Kaou, Chad. The oasis feeds their only source of farmland, but oases in the region have been shrinking steadily, elders say, in the face of hotter temperatures and stronger winds. The dune fixing is part of a broader intervention to support farming…
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A key criminal case could soon get tossed because of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s comments
As Todd Blanche takes the reins at the Justice Department, a federal judge is set to decide whether controversial remarks made last year by the now-acting attorney general should lead to the unravelling of one of the Trump administration’s marquee criminal cases. Blanche’s public statements about human smuggling charges brought against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the US wrongly deported to…
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The Future of Emergency and Critical Care in India
Hyderabad: A massive gap in handling medical emergencies in the private and public hospitals has been noted in the Indian healthcare system. Telangana head of the department of Critical Care at Gandhi Medical College and National Coordinator medical teacher’s under AIFGDA(All India Federation of Government Doctors Association) Dr Kiran Madhala discussed this gap in detail with the National Medical Commission…
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10 Sci-Fi Movies That Make Absolutely No Sense
Paul Maud’Dib standing with glowing blue eyes in Dune (1984) – Universal Pictures Science fiction fans are experts at suspending their disbelief. The genre asks them to be open to impossible technologies, bizarre alien creatures, and worlds unlike anything that exists in reality. Sci-fi lets viewers live the thrill of alien invasions or mentally prepare themselves for an apocalyptic scenario.…
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ANI’s Smita Prakash ‘honoured’ with no-show at Delhi University event
New Delhi: Indian journalist and Editor-in-Chief at ANI news agency, Smita Prakash, was invited as the Chief Guest at Miranda College of Delhi University on April 11. However, she not only received a no-show from students but also from professors and organisers who claimed to have gotten stuck in traffic. Indian journalist and Asian News International (ANI) Editor-in-Chief, Smita Prakash,…
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Kissa Cough syrup ka: When medicine is cast as contraband
AI Image Used For Representational Purpose Only At a time when the State proclaims its intent to decriminalise minor business lapses through the Jan Vishwas Bill, 2026 signalling a shift from punishment to trust, the ground reality appears to be telling a rather different story. While one arm of governance speaks the language of ease of doing business and regulatory…
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Hezbollah fires missile at southern port of Ashdod as IDF strikes launchers in Lebanon
Israel and Hezbollah continued to exchange fire into Friday, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of peace talks with Lebanon, which had continued to reel from major Israeli strikes two days earlier. There was no immediate response to the Israeli announcement from Lebanon, which had repeatedly proposed talks to end the war, or from Hezbollah. Netanyahu said that talks would…
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BJP govt to end Trinamool’s syndicate raj in Bengal: Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses a public meeting Onda: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday, April 11, asserted that if the Bharatiya Janata Party is voted to power in West Bengal, it will end TMC’s ‘syndicate raj’, and said those involved in atrocities on women of the state would be brought to justice. Addressing a BJP rally at…
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These women had their breasts removed to thwart cancer. Then came the pain.
Three weeks after Sophia Bassan’s mastectomy, she felt a stabbing pain beneath her right armpit. In the following months, painful shocks radiated through her chest and back. Her body became so sensitive that at times she couldn’t wear a shirt or lift a fork to her mouth. Bassan slept sitting up because it hurt to lie down, and she would…
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Ridley Scott’s Best Sci-Fi Movie Is Officially Taking Over the World
Ridley Scott is in line for a big year in 2026 when he returns to the world of sci-fi with the release of The Dog Stars. The post-apocalyptic thriller stars Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin opposite Margaret Qualley, and after being delayed out of its previously March release spot, it’s now set to be one of the biggest blockbusters of…
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