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TopicSambhar Salt Lake

Topic: Sambhar Salt Lake

What a mess! Cops detain organiser of Messi tour, Mamata apologises for chaos at Kolkata stadium

Lionel Messi was invited to Kolkata as part of his multicity GOAT India Tour 2025. As fans went on rampage at Salt Lake Stadium, police resorted to a lathi-charge to restore order.

How excess rainfall & not illegal salt mining caused the mass bird deaths at Sambhar Lake in 2019

In 2019, people in Rajasthan witnessed a strange phenomenon — birds dying by thousands around Sambhar Salt Lake. New research now shows how rainfall helped toxic bacteria thrive there.

Illegal salt mining under scanner for mass death of birds at Rajasthan’s Sambhar Lake

Vets’ preliminary reports suggest cause of death as avian botulism, but could extraction of water & high sodium content in the lake have led to the mass deaths?

Rajasthan’s Sambhar Salt Lake becomes graveyard for birds, hundreds die in 10 days

Cause of death of the birds is yet to be ascertained. Chief wildlife warden of Jaipur says carcass samples have been sent for testing.

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Top 10 picks of Serendipity Art Festival 2025 by Rohit Chawla

Through film, textile, scent, sound, and gesture, spectators are invited to descend into an immersive environment where inherited knowledge seeps through material and form.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.