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Photo credit: Jstage.jst.go.jp A small dinosaur bone discovered in Fukushima, Japan, more than two decades ago has given scientists a new glimpse into the diversity of ancient life along East Asia’s coast.The fossil, found in 1999 and left largely unexamined for years, has now been identified as part of the breastbone of a plant-eating dinosaur known as an iguanodontian. Based on comparisons with related animals, researchers estimate that the dinosaur was approximately 3 metres long; much smaller than other iguanodontian fossils previously found in the same geological formation.The finding suggests that dinosaurs of different sizes lived in the coastal environments…
Mumbai: Kherwadi police have registered a case of abetment of suicide against two women after a 24-year-old law graduate jumped to his death from his 13th-floor apartment in Bandra East recently. Police said the two women were threatening to frame him in a police case which had resulted in the man getting severely stressed out.According to the police, the deceased youth lived with his parents and younger brother at Bandra East. He used to work as a law clerk with a judge earlier but was currently working from home. His mother noticed that he was looking stressed for the past…
The clean-up operations involved pourakarmikas, hired labour and earth-moving equipment depending on the size of the site Bengaluru: Even as the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) plans to hold private landowners accountable for maintaining vacant sites and recover cleanup costs from defaulters, Bengaluru North City Corporation’s experience suggests the biggest challenge may not be clearing garbage and overgrowth, but identifying the owners themselves.Over the past year, the corporation identified 267 vacant plots after receiving repeated complaints through the commissioner’s phone-in programme and representations from resident welfare associations. Of these, 92 sites have been cleared, including several large and long-neglected properties that…
Hyderabad: Nearly a dozen people were rescued after a fire broke out in the cellar of a G+6 building on Road No. 11 in Banjara Hills, opposite CARE Hospital, in the early hours of Saturday. Officials said there were no injuries or casualties.The fire department received the alert at around 6.30 am, following which fire personnel and HYDRAA teams rushed to the spot. The cellar housed a liquor shop godown and a parking area. Most of those rescued were residents of the building, which also houses a media channel office and a restaurant.“Prima facie, the fire appears to have been…
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu govt has reconstituted the law commission for a three-year term, entrusting it with the tasks of suggesting measures to plug loopholes in existing laws and making recommendations on interstate and Centre-State relations.The reconstituted commission will be headed by former Manipur high court chief justice D Krishnakumar as chairman. Former Madras high court judge RMT Teekaa Raman, former additional chief secretary TK Ramachandran and former law department secretary A Arunagiri have been appointed as full-time members.Former district judges P Mohan Doss and R Govindarajan have been appointed as part-time members, while an officer in the cadre of…
The carcass of the melanistic tigress Bhubaneswar: A 5-year-old melanistic tigress was found dead at Upper Barakamada or UBK region in the deep core area of Similipal Tiger Reserve two days ago, forest officials said on Saturday. With it, 12 melanistic tigers remain in Similipal, the world’s largest habitat of melanistic tigers that once had 15.In May, a melanistic tiger skin had been seized from poachers from the fringe areas of Similipal. A male melanistic tiger died in the reserve in 2023 while a normal colour big cat died in 2024 due to infighting. Altogether, four tigers have died since…
Union minister of state for information and broadcasting L Murugan COIMBATORE: Union minister of state for information and broadcasting L Murugan on Saturday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is successfully carrying forward the Swadeshi movement pioneered by freedom fighter V O Chidambaranar in 1906.Murugan was speaking at the inaugural function of the ‘Coimbatore Swadeshi Mela’ conducted by the Swadeshi Jagran Manch at Rathinam Grand auditorium in Eachanari to promote indigenous manufacturing. The exhibition will run till August 10.Murugan recalled that a Swadeshi exhibition held in Coimbatore in 2001 was inaugurated by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He said India,…
Aizawl: Mizoram district council and minority affairs minister C Lalsawivunga on Saturday said all “Zofate”, or ethnic Mizos, looked forward to the day when they would be united despite being divided by political boundaries.Addressing an International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples programme themed “Indigenous Peoples and AI: Defending Rights, Shaping Futures”, organised by the Zo Re-Unification Organisation (ZORO) in Aizawl, Lalsawivunga expressed hope that the organisation’s quest to reunify ethnic Mizos spread across three countries would be fulfilled.The minister said Zo people were dispersed across different countries following India’s independence from British rule. While political boundaries had placed them…
Nageshwari, 42, worked as a product promoter at a shopping mall. MYSURU: A 42-year-old woman working as a product promoter at a shopping mall in west Mysuru allegedly died by suicide on Friday, accusing her manager of harassment.Vijayanagar police have booked the manager of a marketing agency on charges of abetment of suicide under the provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).Nageshwari, a resident of Hinkal, left behind a suicide note in which she alleged that her manager, Dolly, who monitored her work from Bengaluru, harassed her by forcing her to admit to a mistake committed by someone else.She also…
Patna: Bihar is moving from ‘Vocal for Local’ to ‘Local to Global’, BJP state president Sanjay Saraogi said on Saturday as 18 metric tonnes of GI-tagged Mithila makhana was exported to Australia for the first time via sea route.Union minister Piyush Goyal said the consignment, procured directly from Darbhanga, had provided farmers nearly 18% more profit than the market price. Bihar agriculture minister Vijay Kumar Sinha had flagged off the consignment from Bihta Dry Port on Friday.Bihar accounts for nearly 85% of India’s makhana production. A separate HS Code for makhana came into effect in July 2025 under the Finance…