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Members of the Tribal Council of the Little Nicobar and Great Nicobar Islands have written to the Union Tribal Affairs Minister demanding the withdrawal of a certificate which claimed forest rights had been recognised and settled on Great Nicobar Island. The certification, issued in August 2022, enabled clearances for the Great Nicobar Island project to

If you run a WordPress site, then you know that spam is a real annoying problem whether it comes to contact forms, WordPress comments, or user registrations. The good news is that stopping spam in WordPress is a lot easier than you probably think, and you don’t need expensive tools either. We have spent over

For years, the post editor has lived a double life. The Site Editor renders your blocks inside an iframe. The post editor — where most people actually spend their time — renders them directly in the admin page. That split ends with WordPress 7.1: the post editor canvas will always be an iframe, on every

In the peak of summer, villages around Koilwar and Arrah in Bihar’s Bhojpur district are often hit by dust storms. By midday, strong winds sweep fine soil across agricultural fields, leaving crops and rooftops coated in dust. But the dust seen in summer is only the beginning. For local communities, air pollution typically worsens after

It is a familiar story: By the end of June, India had a monsoon deficit of 40 per cent. In the first week of July, the deficit was 12 per cent. This week was also the only one since the delayed onset of monsoon that reported above normal rainfall; however, the India Meteorological Department has

During her teenage years in Goalpara district of Assam, Wimarithy Marak helped her family collect water from a dug well near their house every day. Often, she would notice tiny organisms in the bucket, which she would simply discard before using the water. It was not until Marak was completing her doctoral research at the

Decoding doublets What is a doublet and how did it hit Venezuela? Typically, when two quakes occur in quick succession, one is considered to be the main event and the other an aftershock. A doublet comprises two independent mainshocks of comparable magnitude, close in time and location. A typical large earthquake appears on instruments as

The narrative that has settled around the collapse of electric ride-hailing cab company BluSmart Mobility is wrong in the conclusion many are drawing from it: that the electric cab model is broken. It is not. What failed in BluSmart’s case was a company’s financial architecture, governance structure and one set of promoters’ honesty. As per