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‘Placed under house arrest’ — Ladakh-based innovator Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike enters day-4

Wangchuk claims was asked to sign bond under section 107 of CrPC. He is demanding 6th Schedule for Ladakh, and govt’s intervention against mining & unplanned development in region.

‘All is not well in Ladakh’, Sonam Wangchuk urges PM Modi for climate mitigation

Innovator Wangchuk stressed that if the 'carelessness' continued and Ladakh isn't provided protection from the industries, 2/3rd of glaciers in the UT will be extinct.

Covid-19 vaccine alters menstrual cycle, finds study & a Cretaceous era turtle the size of a car

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Melting glaciers, water scarcity, exodus: How climate change reality is biting Ladakh villages

Global warming has been leading to melting glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Range, where Ladakh’s located. This has caused a water crisis in the region.

West Antarctica glacier disintegrating faster than thought

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Sample from speeding asteroid shows its made of stuff similar to that which formed the Sun

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Earth’s shrinking glaciers contain less ice than scientists thought, study shows

Scientists for first time measured the thickness & movement of over 250,000 glaciers. It found wide variations in ice volume and freshwater reservoirs that millions of people depend on.

Scientists find world’s oldest flower bud fossil, and China makes ‘artificial moon’ on Earth

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

If this ‘doomsday’ glacier melts, there will be global floods and vanishing of islands

A sea level rise of several metres would inundate many of the world’s major cities – including Shanghai, New York, Miami, Tokyo and Mumbai.

Found in Australia — a ‘true’ millipede with more than 1,000 legs

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

On Camera

Europe’s sanctions are not the moral compass it paints to be. Look at the EU’s own data

Three years into the war, Europe’s sanctions regime now resembles a policy of managed hypocrisy: Moral rhetoric for public consumption, exemptions for industrial preservation.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

IAF’s leased KC-135 lands in Agra, American firm’s pilots to man mid-air refueller

India’s refueller fleet comprises six Russian Ilushin-78 tankers, first inducted in 2003, which are facing huge maintenance and serviceability issues.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.