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Belem (Brazil): Officials from countries most vulnerable to global warming offered searing dispatches of life on the front line of a warming planet Friday, as world leaders gathered on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for the annual United Nations climate talks. Ahead of Monday's...

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Saturday announced that it has received advanced data products from the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, including new parameters on the physical and dielectric properties of the Moon’s polar regions. The agency described this development as a significant enhancement for...

RESHMI YADAV, OP Bhubaneswar: Generation Z — often represented and referred to those born between the mid-1990s and 2012 — are the ones to grow up surrounded by technology. However, this constant digital stimulation has come with a cost — a disrupted sleep cycle, deteriorating...

Copenhagen(Denmark): Denmark's government Friday announced a political agreement to ban access to social media for anyone aged under 15. The move, led by the Ministry of Digitalisation, would set the age limit for access to social media but give some parents — after a specific...

Helsinki: India and Finland agreed to strengthen bilateral ties across multiple sectors, including trade, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and clean technologies, during their 13th Foreign Office Consultations in Helsinki Thursday. Sharing details regarding the meeting, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal in a post on...

Mumbai: The domestic equity indices closed lower Thursday amid selling in broader markets and continued FII outflows. Selling pressure in banking, Financial Services, and FMCG heavyweights dragged the market sentiment as well. Sensex ended the session at 83,311.01, down 148.14 points or 0.18 per cent....

Chennai: In a major infrastructure upgrade aimed at eliminating traffic snarls at toll plazas, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is set to introduce a camera-based automatic toll collection system on key stretches of the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway and GST Road. The initiative will...

Bhubaneswar: Medical scientists from various institutes have identified BMAA, a potential neurotoxin, in several species of the Cycad plant found in the forests of Odisha, according to a statement issued by AIIMS Bhubaneswar. The finding has raised alarms as a section of local people follow...

The November night sky is set to deliver one of its most stunning sights as the Beaver Moon — 2025’s biggest and brightest Supermoon — rises Wednesday evening. It marks the second in a rare series of three consecutive Supermoons appearing this year, following October’s...

New Delhi: NASA and ISRO are all set to declare their first-ever jointly developed NISAR satellite operational on Friday, ISRO chairman V Narayanan said there Wednesday. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), said to be the most expensive Earth observation satellite ever built, has the...