समुद्रात वास्तव्य करणाऱ्या विविध जातींच्या डॉल्फिन आणि देवमाशांसारख्या सस्तन प्राण्यांबाबतचं कुतूहल, शास्त्रज्ञांना नेहमीच खुणावत आलंय. माशांप्रमाणं पाण्यात राहणाऱ्या, परंतु हवेसाठ�...
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...आणि एकदम भयंकर आरडाओरडा उसळला! तान्हाजीने, सूर्याजीने आणि मावळ्यांनी एकदम इतक्या वीरश्रीने, "हर हर हर हर महादेव' करून शत्रूची कापाकाप करण्यास सुरवात केली. न भूतो न भविष्यति! एकदम छापा. एकदम ...
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पावसाळा सुरू झाला आणि सह्याद्रीतील डोंगरशिखरं खुणावू लागली. हिरवीकंच हिरवळ आणि हिरवाईतून फिरण्याचा हा मोसम भटक्‍यांच्या विशेष आवडीचा. बालकवींच्या कवितेतील निर्झर खळाळता ओढा होऊन बेभान...
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Take the next step with your digital photography, and start earning some money with it!  There are two avenues you can pursue – you can sell the photographs that you take, or you can provide your photography skills as a service to other people.
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Scientists have found a new species of bird in Borneo, the ''spectacled flowerpecker'', and expressed the hope today that the discovery would help spur conservation of the island's threatened forests. The small bird, grey with white stripes, was spotted in June 2009 on flowering mistletoe in the Malaysian part of Borneo by a group including biologist David Edwards of Leeds University in England.

''We hope the announcement of our discovery will lead to our ultimate goal: conservation of the new...
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Google has threatened to shut down its operations in China after uncovering hacking attempts into email accounts of Chinese human rights activists, terming it as "highly sophisticated".

"These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered - combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web - have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China," David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development an...
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It is just the beginning of the year, but M. Manju Laxmi already feels anxious. In four months or so, she will be back to her old routine: stuffing the wide chinks under her weathered closed doors and windows with her old saris.

Laxmi, 42, along with her three children, her husband Nagaraju and his extended family, lives in Malyam village. Despite being one of the larger landholders with a 3.5 hectare-farmland, her family has been dogged by illness and debt even before she came here as a bride...
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With its vast renewable energy potential, South Asia can lead the world in achieving energy security. But sources within the region said it needs technological and financial support from the developed countries before it can tap its rich energy resources.

"Remember, renewable energy is not that easy to achieve. It needs a lot of resources and technology, which the South Asian countries don’t have," Sunita Narain, environmentalist and director of New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environ...
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A great variety of endangered wildlife species end up feeding the illegal market for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) thanks to poor enforcement in stopping the trade, say experts and activists.

"The Chinese market is like a 'black hole' sucking in wildlife products from neighbouring countries," said Peter Pueschel, head of global Wildlife Trade Programme at the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), in an e-mail interview with IPS.

India, China's neighbour to the south, is most at r...
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