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Insect pests cause roughly 20% of global annual crop losses, a figure projected to rise with warming, and crop protection still leans heavily on chemical insecticides. Learning how plants sense attack could point to crops that defend themselves better
Google is crawling us as hard as ever, so the demand hasnt changed from their point of view either. The reality is, the AI mode does not drive traffic, not for us and not to anybody, Huffman said
The Supreme Court has pointed to the SIRs flaws by design
T.N.s search for a new Secretariat has spanned successive governments; TVKs latest proposal to build one near coast has revived the debate
Congresss Jairam Ramesh questions delay in providing the complete CCTV footage and audio recordings, demands impartial investigation under the Supreme Courts supervision
Titled Project K-Monitor, the evaluation process will be taken up across all Assembly constituencies of the State
Young people across Europe take to the streets over inequality and rising living costsfrom Spain to France to Serbia and Albania. In this episode, we answer this question.
The draft Rules specify which animals can be used in research, what experiments are permitted and what safeguards are needed to minimise their suffering. The public can submit comments on the draft until November 5
The first big takeaway for the BJP is that the results of the MLC election demonstrate the 2024 Lok Sabha results may not be a fluke, when the SP, with 37 seats, brought down the BJPs handsome tallies of 71 seats in 2014 and 62 seats in 2019 to 33 seats in 2024
A lingering low-pressure system near Tamil Nadu may have supplied additional moisture to Arnab, potentially helping sustain its cloud bands and rainfall as it approached the Andhra coast.
An analysis of Israels election results as Benjamin Netanyahus coalition loses its parliamentary majority.
MLA Sanjay Gaikwad said that if nobody attended a farmers funeral and animals fed on the body, it might make others contemplating suicide realise the consequences and deter them from taking their own lives
Revenue rises 36% to 1,598 crore; US data-centre construction indirectly boosts export demand
Understanding the intellectual tissue that binds the existentialists of the Western canon, such as Kierkegaard and Sartre with the hoary dharmic philosophers of ancient India
The NCLT Bar Association has filed an application in a pending matter contending that at least 18 benches of NCLT are holding only half-day sittings because of shortage of members
Israel records its highest voter turnout since 1999, with nearly 80% of eligible Arab voters reportedly turning out. Could their votes strengthen Arab-led parties and influence who forms Israels next government?
During the investigation, an independent committee found that the Housing Bureau's independent checking unit failed in its duties supervising the maintenance work
JohnTernus took the stage at an Apple event in Los Angeles and showed a MacBook Pro model with an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display
Net profit slid 25 percent from a year earlier to $26.2 billion in the July-to-September period, or $2.12 per share
Aswathi Asokan, who has conceptualised this new game, talks about its genesis, how it is played and how gamification can help drive conservation
Going forward, its support will be limited strictly to select older, unmaintained games that rely on Intel-based frameworks
Finding ways to track Starlink users has become a cottage industry as governments around the world try to get a grip on the spread of satellite internet terminals
Mr. Trump is pushing ways of bringing down energy costs ahead of the midterms, amid voter anger over soaring oil costs caused by his war on Iran
Globally, total number of heatwave days decreased from 2024s historical high of 15.3 billion person-days for older adults and 2.3 billion person-days for infants
IMD experts said the landfall process may go on for a long time, and they can indicate the tentative landfall point only after the process is over
After joining SP, Dharmendra Kashyap alleged that the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh has collapsed and that members of backward communities were being denied justice
On October 15, Sudhakar Singh wrote to the Bihar CM about a defamation notice of 5 crore sent by Kundan Krishnan, asking whether the Bihar government endorse the notice
As per initial reports from the counting centre, Janata Dal (United) candidate Neeraj Kumar is trailing in Patna graduate constituency which remained the hot seat due to boycott of Mokama MLA Anant Singh
Polls closed at 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) in Israels pivotal general election, which saw high voter turnout and veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting for his political life
Its future emissions will depend on what it chooses to build now and the technologies and standards incorporated into those investments
While carriers of narcotics are caught in the net, big sharks operate freely
River pollution from industrial effluents indicates state failure
A dead voter left on the roll is a clerical error. A living voter who is struck off loses their constitutional right
Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide said developers and contractors were responsible for controlling dust generated at construction sites and on adjoining roads
There is a crucial distinction between stenting as a life-saving measure to medical treatment via stenting because a narrowing of blood vessels is seen on an angiogram
Officials disclosed that this year, only one retail vendor was functional and the number of functional bars attached to restaurants offering retail sale of liquor had increased by 17 newly issued licences, taking the total to 40
The maximum individual loan limit for UCCSs has been raised to 60 lakh for societies with deposits below 100 crore and 1 crore for those with deposits exceeding 100 crore
A sub-inspector and a school student was killed
Special teams analysed CCTV camera footage and nabbed Stephen Raj from his hideout in Vellore
Cyclone' Arnab' is forecast to intensify into a very severe cyclone and make landfall on the Andhra Pradesh coast on Wednesday (October 28, 2026), with wind speeds of 125135 km/h
J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha directed the security agencies that operations must continue to neutralise the remnants of the terrorist ecosystem
The police said that as the girls parents stayed in Kerala for work as wage labourers, they visited home occasionally

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