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Actor Darshan Thoogudeepa was arrested with his friend and actor Pavithra Gowda and 15 others for the torture and murder of one of his fans, 33-year-old Renukaswamy, in Bengaluru in June and had approached the Karnataka High Court for interim bail. Darshan has sought interim bail on the grounds that he is experiencing numbness in both feet. On Tuesday, the actor’s lawyer requested the court for permission for his surgery to be performed at a private hospital in Mysuru. The request was opposed by the public prosecutor, who said that the medical documents did not specify how many days Darshan would need to be hospitalised and argued that the surgery could be conducted at a… Read More »Will Actor Darshan Get Interim Bail? High Court Verdict Likely Today

The central and the state governments must restore peace in violence-hit Manipur quickly and rebuild the destroyed homes of internally displaced people, according to students from the northeast who participated at a peaceful protest in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Tuesday. They raised their voice against attempts to divide Manipur. Some of the placards read “no separate administration,” “peaceful coexistence for everyone,” “save territorial integrity of Manipur”, etc which are the common themes in the Manipur crisis. The MLAs, civil society organisations, and ceasefire-linked insurgent groups of the Kukis tribes dominant in some hill areas of Manipur have been speaking in the same language in demanding what they call a “separate administration” carved out of Manipur.… Read More »Northeast Students Hold Protest In Delhi, Call For Peace, Unity In Manipur

Much of the vanilla that flavors our ice cream today is artificial, derived from the genetic signature of a plant that hundreds of years ago was known only to an Indigenous Mexican tribe. The plant’s sequenced genomic information, available on public databases, was used as the basis for a synthetic flavoring that today competes with vanilla grown in several countries, mainly by small-scale farmers. Few, if any, benefits of the lucrative scientific advance have trickled down to the communities that gave us vanilla in the first place. “Wild genetic resources and pharmaceuticals …are multi-multi-billion dollar businesses. They clearly are profitable… that’s not in dispute,” Charles Barber of the World Resources Institute think tank told AFP.… Read More »Who Should Get Paid For Nature’s Sequenced Genes?

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) need a wicket-keeper batter after the retirement of Dinesh Karthik. With KL Rahul all but set to be released by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), the India star has been linked with a return to RCB, a franchise he started his IPL career with. Being a local boy, Rahul is undoubtedly a natural choice for the spot behind the stumps for the Royal Challengers. However, the auction dynamics don’t make it easy for any franchise to go out and get a player of its choice. Yet, RCB dropped a massive hint ahead of the IPL retention announcements. In a video shared by the Bengaluru franchise, Rahul was the only non-RCB player seen… Read More »RCB Drop Big KL Rahul Hint Ahead Of IPL 2025 Retention Announcements

<p><strong>Beijing/ Jiuquan:</strong> China on Wednesday successfully launched its spaceship sending three astronauts, including the country’s first female space engineer on a six months&rsquo; mission to fine tune its low orbiting space station.</p> <p>The Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship was launched by a Long March-2F carrier rocket, early Wednesday from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China. About 10 minutes after the launch, the Shenzhou-19 spaceship separated from the rocket and entered its designated orbit.</p> <p>The crew members are in good shape and the launch is a complete success, the CMSA announced.</p> <p>The spaceship will perform a fast, automated rendezvous and docking with the front port of the space station core module Tianhe in about 6.5 hours,… Read More »China Sends Three Astronauts On 6 Six-Month Mission To Its Space Station