Month: June 2019

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India Planning to Launch Own Space Station by 2030, ISRO Chief Says

The Wire Staff 13/06/2019

The ambitious project will be an extension of the...

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Is the Solar System’s Largest Storm Dying?

Jatan Mehta 13/06/2019

The Great Red Spot is 1.3-times as wide as...

A living fossil that is important to the food chain, horseshoe crabs have been crawling on the planet a couple of hundred million years before dinosaurs.

Renewed Efforts to Save Horseshoe Crabs Give Imperilled Species Lease of Life

Sahana Ghosh 13/06/2019

All four extant species of horseshoe crabs are imperilled,...

A still from the film 'Ice on Fire'.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Ice on Fire’ Whitewashes Climate Justice, Prompts Backlash

Soumashree Sarkar 13/06/2019

The film ignores the contributions of non-white people to...

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Adani Wins Final Approval for Long Delayed Australian Coal Mine

Natasha Chaku 13/06/2019

The final approval came weeks after a surprise election...

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Gujarat Remains on High Alert Even After Vayu Changes Course

The cyclone was earlier moving straight towards the Gujarat...

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Three Lakh People Evacuated as Cyclone Vayu Advances Towards Gujarat Coast

The cyclone has intensified into a "very severe cyclonic...