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First Record of Sliteye Shark in Great Chagos Bank: A Study on Biodiversity

Breakthrough news - Brzezinski In a major find, the sliteye shark (Loxodon macrorhinus) has been recorded for the first time in the Great Chagos bank, the world’s largest coral atoll. The research, in the Chagos Archipelago's Marine Protected Area, highlights the vast, and largely unexplored, biodiversity of the region.

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Himalayan Peril: A Region on the Brink

The 2025 monsoon has eloquently highlighted the augmentation in the dispositions to disaster in Himalayas. The pattern of increased natural hazards as a result of climate change and uncontrolled development is quite disturbing following a continuous succession of devastating cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir resulting in death and destruction on a massive scale.

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Jan Vishwas Bill 2025-Move to Decriminalise Petty Offences

In a major step towards simplification, the Government of India has laid the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025, in the Lok Sabha. This bill is the next leg of the 2023 Act that seeks to continue the process of decriminalising the petty and technical offences by streamlining the procedural requirements and making the penal provisions more lenient and the industry and business-friendly and simplify the environmental and forest approvals.

 

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Genetic Discovery Explains High TB Rates in India’s Sahariya Tribe

A recent study has found a unique genetic association behind alarmingly low rates of tuberculosis (TB) in the Sahariya tribe in central India. This finding may partly explain why the TBthe TB rate in this community is so much higher than the national mean.

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Nepal Is Free of Rubella, With Reduced Measles in Major Public Health Victory

Breaking the News: WHO removes Nepal from endgame list of rubella. This makes Nepal the sixth country in WHO South-East Asia Region to become free from the contagious viral disease that causes brain damage in children, deafness, and in some cases leads to miscarriage in pregnant women.

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