El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires

WASHINGTON: El Niño, Nature’s chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced on Thursday.Experts said the El Niño, a natural warming cycle, would further heat a globe already warming from fossil fuel pollution, and likely turbocharge extreme weather across the planet. Meteorologists forecast…

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Developers, industries consider tankers, recycling options amid water supply curbs | Mumbai News

Pic used for representation purpose Mumbai: As Mumbai tightens water supplies, developers and industrial users are recalibrating operations, bracing for higher costs, greater reliance on tankers and possible project delays even as they accelerate investment in water recycling and reuse.The BMC suspended water supply to construction sites and imposed a 20% cut on industrial and…

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Flood alert issued to people living on banks of Thenpennai river in five districts of Tamil Nadu | Chennai News

KRISHNAGIRI: Water resources department officials on Wednesday issued floor alerts to people living on the banks of the Thenpennai river in Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Villupuram, Tiruvannamalai and Cuddalore districts as they released 988 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water from the KRP dam here. The water level in the reservoir rose to 50.10 feet on…

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WhatsApp ‘RTO Challan’ file costs Nikol trader Rs 10 lakh | Ahmedabad News

Ahmedabad: A seemingly routine WhatsApp message carrying what appeared to be a traffic challan ended up costing a Nikol-based businessman nearly Rs 10 lakh, highlighting the growing threat posed by malicious APK files being used by cyberfraudsters to gain control of victims’ smartphones and banking credentials.According to a complaint lodged with the cybercrime police, the…

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The ‘Heaven Sword’ of Taiwan: How scientists found East Asia’s tallest known tree hidden in ancient forests |

For centuries, one of the most extraordinary living giants in Asia stood unnoticed among the remote mountains of Taiwan. Hidden within rugged forests and protected by difficult terrain, the colossal tree escaped scientific documentation despite its immense size. Now, after years of painstaking exploration, researchers have finally located and measured what is recognised as the…

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Stock market today: Which are the top gainers and losers in BSE Sensex and Nifty50 today? Check list

The BSE Sensex rose 254.36 points, or 0.33%, to settle at 77,409.98, while the NSE Nifty50 gained 82.30 points, or 0.34%, to close at 24,168. Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty closed higher for the fifth straight session on Thursday, supported by easing crude oil prices and optimism surrounding the US-Iran peace deal.The BSE Sensex…

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Wbjee Result 2026: WBJEE result 2026 released at press conference, rank cards to be out at 4 PM: Check details here

WBJEE result 2026 has been released on the official website The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examinations Board (WBJEEB) has declared the WBJEE 2026 results, today, June 18, 2026 in the press conference. The board confirmed that 92,753 candidates have qualified the examination this year. Shaswat Banerjee has emerged as the topper of WBJEE 2026 in…

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Cotton-candy planets and metal rain: NASA finds some of the strangest worlds in space |

Astronomers have catalogued more than five thousand planets orbiting distant stars, and a handful of them defy almost everything scientists thought they knew about how planets should look or behave. Using telescopes like Hubble, James Webb, and ground-based observatories such as Gemini South, researchers have found worlds so strange that they initially seemed implausible: a…

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Putin: Putin says U.S. ties ‘unsatisfactory’ but he is willing to talk

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Thursday described Russia‘s relations with the United States as “unsatisfactory” but said Moscow was open to dialogue and his June summit with President Joe Biden had opened up room for an improvement in ties. “Yes, in many bilateral and international questions our interests, evaluations, positions do indeed diverge, as everyone…

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