#science25 Hopfield Network and Boltzmann Machine

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#history25 Battle of Walong

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#environment25 India has six species of antelope: Tibetan Antelope, Tibetan Gazelle, Nilgai, Blackbuck, Chinkara and Chausingha. The Nilgai is the largest and the Chausingha the smallest. It has 12 species of deer, from the smallest Indian Mouse Deer to the largest Sambar.

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#environment25 Both deer and antelope are part of the Kingdom Animalia. Also, both are ‘Artiodactyls’, which means they are hooved animals and put most of the weight of their bodies on two or four of the toes of their foot (which fuse to form the hoof). But both belong to different ‘families’ under the Artiodactyl order. The deer belong to the family Cervidae, while antelope fall in the ‘Bovidae’ family, which also includes cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats and bison.

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#polity25 Lady Justice

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#polity25 Lady Justice

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#initiatives25 Global Supply Chain Stress Index

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#health25 Diphtheria is a highly contagious but preventable bacterial disease. Here is what to know about reports of a recent case in Punjab and why spikes have been witnessed in the number of cases in some years

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#history25 The blackbuck (Iralai Maan in Tamil) features in the Kurunthokai, a collection of classic love poems of Sangam literature. The poems are about love and longing felt by men and women in the Sangam period.

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#environment25 A Darjeeling-based company is transporting basalt dust from Jharkhand and using it as an organic fertiliser to enrich soil and accelerate carbon sequestration. It has used about 500 tonnes of dust.

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#health25 Kala-azar: India to seek WHO certification for eliminating disease

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#environment25 Rome Declaration on Water Scarcity in Agriculture

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#environment25 World Food Forum

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#science25 Brown dwarfs are neither a star nor a planet, but something in between. They could be considered wannabe stars that during their formative stages did not reach the mass necessary to ignite nuclear fusion at their core like a star. But they are more massive than the biggest planets.

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#history25 The inscription was written in Sanskrit and Nandinagari script. It was engraved in 1513 during the reign of King Krishandevaraya. The plates recorded the gift of a village Vasalabattaka, renamed Krishnarayapura, to several Brahmins by the king. The inscriptions also mention the boundaries of the donated village, which was under the control of the Raja of Chandragiri, currently located in Tirupati district in Andhra Pradesh.

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#global25 BRICS

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#global25 BRICS

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#science25 C. elegans

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#science25 C. elegans

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#global25 The EU’s Nature Restoration Law sets an important precedent for countries worldwide. Given the alarming levels of land degradation and biodiversity loss in India, such a law in India would not only help India restore its degraded ecosystems but also contribute to its socio-economic development and climate resilience. The clock is ticking, and the time to act is now.

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