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A brown anole. | Photo Credit: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA) Picture a lizard the length of your finger clinging to a tree branch. The cause of its desperation is a 265 km/hr wind tearing through the air, threatening to peel it off like a loose sticker.Just this happened twice in two weeks to a population of small brown anoles in the Turks and Caicos Islands in September 2017. So since then, these lizards have evolved to cling harder.Two visitorsFour days before Hurricane Irma made landfall, a team of scientists from Princeton and Harvard Universities had wrapped up a routine…

Piyush Goyal pitches India as trusted, tariff-friendly base for Japanese firms TOKYO: It isn’t just high growth and an expanding market that make India an attractive destination for investors. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal on Monday added India’s long list of FTAs and the possibility of Japanese companies using the preferential tariffs to set up a base to it and looking at it as a gateway to the world.And, he topped it up by positioning India as a safe base for Japanese companies as data is protected, intellectual property is secure and where an entrepreneur does not “go missing…

In the 1950s, councils were building almost 200,000 new council homes a year, but half of councils do not currently own or build their own homes.In 2024-25, there were just over 12,000 homes built for social rent – the highest since 2013 -14, but organisations like the National Housing Federation and homeless charities have previously agreed that at least 90,000 social homes would need to be built each year to meet demand.Social housing provides affordable homes at a low cost, managed by social landlords. It includes affordable rented properties as well as low-cost home ownership, such as shared ownership, and…

The chief economist at Russia’s state development corporation VEB.RF has been fired after presenting a report earlier this year warning that Russia cannot win a prolonged war of attrition against Ukraine and is falling behind economically and technologically, The Bell reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Andrei Klepach, who served as VEB.RF’s chief economist for 12 years, delivered the stark assessment during a May meeting at the Moscow Exchange’s Nikitsky Club. However, Klepach’s remarks only attracted widespread attention this weekend after the Russian service of The Moscow Times published excerpts from his report. In it, Klepach offered…

Vasai: A 22-year-old labourer died after falling from the 15th floor of an under-construction 22-storey building while carrying out painting work in the Babola area of Vasai West on Sunday afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Mursalim Momin.The incident took place at the ‘Aryana’ building located behind Western Hotel in Babola. According to the police, Momin was working on the 15th floor at around noon. He reportedly fell from the building while getting down to relieve himself.He sustained severe injuries to his head, face, chin and legs and was rendered unconscious at the spot. He was immediately rushed to…

New Delhi: Aiming to ensure the city presents a clean, green and safe face to international delegates and visitors, New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has stepped up preparations for the upcoming Brics Summit, scheduled to be held Sept 12-13.“The council has put in place coordinated arrangements covering sanitation, beautification, horticulture, infrastructure, electricity, public health, enforcement, parking and round-the-clock monitoring as per international standards,” said NDMC chairperson Manoj Kumar Dwivedi after reviewing the preparations Monday.Dedicated arrangements have been planned for major events associated with the summit, including Brics Bazaar, Brics Run & Ride, Brics Murals and Painting, and Brics Food Festival.…

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Bakan Jagdish Sudhakar, CEO, TN Green Climate Company Chennai: Tamil Nadu was working on decarbonisation plans for four districts and had initiated a Rs 1,000-crore Green Climate Fund, with an initial Rs 100-crore commitment from the State government and the remaining corpus proposed to be raised from the market to support businesses in areas including energy transition, the circular economy and recycling, said Bakan Jagdish Sudhakar, CEO, Tamil Nadu Green Climate Company.Highlighting concrete decarbonisation measures at the CII Tamil Nadu Sustainable Manufacturing Summit 2026, he said the State’s recently launched passive-cooling guidelines for buildings could reduce energy demand by around…

Road-patching work in Ahmedabad Road patching work by AMC at Vyas vadi road in ahmedabad on Thursday,05,september,2024 PHoto Yogesh Chawda Blurb: AMC has stipulated that stone signboards be set up at both ends of a road-resurfacing worksite. The boards are to carry details such as a contractor’s name and phone number, project deadline, and defect liability periodAhmedabad: Essential details of road-resurfacing works, from the contractor’s name to the deadline, shall now be set in stone signboards, ensuring transparency. AMC’s roads and buildings committee met on Monday and made it mandatory to install such signboards.The signboards are to be set up…

Prayagraj: Indian Institute of Information and Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A) has scaled a new peak in campus placements, with a BTech student securing the institute’s highest package in five years at Rs 1.58 crore annually and more than 96% of registered undergraduate students being placed during the 2025-26 placement season.A total of 480 undergraduate and 145 postgraduate students registered for placements, with all of them participating in the recruitment process. Of these, 462 UG and 102 PG students were selected. The UG placement rate stood at 96.25%, while around 70% of PG students secured placements.According to sources, the recruitment drive saw 117…