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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Topic: Kodaikanal

200 solar physicists gather in Bengaluru for KSO’s 125th anniversary

The Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO), established in 1899, has made significant contributions to understanding solar phenomena like sunspots, flares, and coronal mass ejections.

Kodaikanal is now a giant traffic jam. A new Western Ghats magazine will flag problems

A Chennai event – featuring politicians, ecologists and Kodaikanal residents – detailed the rampant landscape changes that have damaged the Western Ghats’ delicate ecology.

India’s Oldest Solar Observatory celebrates 125 years

The Observatory has a continuous daily record of the Sun, with more than 1.2 lakh digitised solar images and thousands of other images of the Sun recorded every day since the start of the 20th century.

‘Now people know what a production designer does’—The real star of Manjummel Boys is the crew

The incident at Guna caves is a good story, but the real challenge for Chidambaram was finding the perfect team of technical wizards. 'We spent 70% of the budget on the crew,' he says.

Kodaikanal’s radioactive seafood diet, how mercury was added to the menu

In 'Heavy Metal: How a Global Corporation Poisoned Kodaikanal', author Ameer Shahul explores the mercury poisoning that rocked the hill station.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.