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Chandrapur: The Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR) near here is set to reopen for the tourists from tomorrow following the Supreme Court's recent directive permitting resumption of tourism activities in the Tiger Reserve areas in the country, a forest official here said. The Tiger Reserve had been closed after the Supreme Court's ruling in July […]

Hyderabad: The next generation of bio- diversity models across the world could emerge from the knowledge of existing approaches in India, a new United Nations Development Programme report said on Thursday. The UNDP report calls for adopting a "landscape approach" to bio-diversity governance which will allow a range of ecosystems and not just the smaller […]

Mumbai: Work by a team of Indian researchers, who have developed a novel multi-component magnetic nanosystem that could image and kill cancer cells, has been highlighted in the latest issue of internationally acclaimed 'Nature India' magazine. The magazine is an international journal, with original, groundbreaking research spanning all scientific disciplines. The design of nanosystem is […]

New Delhi: Centre on Monday notified fresh guidelines on tiger conservation allowing "regulated low impact tourism" in the core and critical tiger habitat. "Since, tourism has been happening in areas of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries which are now designated as core and critical tiger habitat, regulated low impact tourism (visitation) would be allowed in […]

Hyderabad: Mankind's closest living relatives – the apes, monkeys, lemurs and other primates – are on the brink of extinction and in need of urgent conservation measures, according to a report. These species are in danger of becoming extinct because of destruction of tropical forests, illegal wildlife trade and commercial bush meat hunting, said a […]

Hyderabad: Observing that the flooding in the famous Kaziranga National Park of Assam actually helps in maintaining its ecosystem, an expert in wildlife on Friday said precautionary measures should be taken to see that animals remain safe during rainy season. "Kaziranga National Park and Manas National Park (both in Assam) cannot be world heritage sites […]

Seoul: South Korean giant Samsung might launch with the upcoming Galaxy Note 8 device a pair of wireless earplugs — similar to Apple’s wireless AirPods — that will be powered by its artificial intelligence assistant ‘Bixby’. According to a report in Korean outlet ETNews, the earphones will feature noise cancelling technology and it’s expected that […]

New York: Clothes that double up as cell-phone charger could be a reality soon as researchers have found a way to generate electricity from human motion. Researchers from Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory of US-based Vanderbilt University have developed an ultra-thin energy harvesting system that can generate small amounts of electricity when the system is […]

San Francisco: If you are an Apple device user and want to dodge a potential hacking, you must download the new software update for iOS and MacOS that the Cupertino-based giant has released. According to a report in Fortune, for users of iPhones, iPads and Mac computers, downloading the patch is critical to secure the […]

New York: People who plan to view the solar eclipse should check the safety authenticity of viewing glasses to ensure they meet basic safety standards, NASA has recommended. A total solar eclipse, which is when the Moon completely covers the Sun, will occur across 14 states in the continental US on August 21, along a 112 […]

Hyderabad: India would aim to share with other developing countries its knowledge on biodiversity conservation to alleviate poverty during its presidency of Conference of Parties (COP), a government official said on Thursday. "We have more than 8.5 per cent of the biodiversity in the world and about 18 per cent of the global population. We […]

Washington: In a rare encounter, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured Phobos – one of the moons of Mars – which is a football-shaped object so tiny that it would fit comfortably inside the Washington D.C. Beltway. Over the course of 22 minutes, Hubble took 13 separate exposures, allowing astronomers to create a time-lapse video […]

San Francisco: A week after nearly 2,000 publishers in the US formed the News Media Alliance to get an anti-trust exemption from the Congress to negotiate over advertising revenue with digital platforms, a top Facebook executive has confirmed the company would soon launch a news subscription product. Campbell Brown, the head of the company’s news […]

New Delhi: A whopping 96 per cent of Indians put personal information at risk while using public Wi-Fi for checking bank accounts, sharing personal photos and videos, a report by Norton by Symantec said on Tuesday. According to the ‘Norton Wi-Fi Risk Report 2017’ by Symantec, consumers are unable to resist a strong, free Wi-Fi […]