#environment25 Researchers have identified two genetically distinct groups of the species. The genetic divergences showed up as differences in physical features that could inform strategies on where and how to release and conserve rescued tortoises.

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#environment25 Researchers have identified two genetically distinct groups of the species. The genetic divergences showed up as differences in physical features that could inform strategies on where and how to release and conserve rescued tortoises.

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#global25 India, including Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Mexico and Andorra, was a member of the core group of countries that guided the unanimous adoption of the resolution.

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#global25 Syria Borders

#science25 The researchers worked in a laboratory with a moth species called the Egyptian cotton leafworm. This insect is able to hear the sounds produced by some plants. The researchers wanted to know whether female leafworms would use the clicks to decide where to lay eggs, one of the most important choices in their lives.

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#polity25 The language of Article 67 is wide – Rajya Sabha must pass a resolution to remove the chairperson by ‘a majority of all the then members’, and Lok Sabha must ‘agree’. No Vice President has ever been removed from office in this way

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#polity25 The language of Article 67 is wide – Rajya Sabha must pass a resolution to remove the chairperson by ‘a majority of all the then members’, and Lok Sabha must ‘agree’. No Vice President has ever been removed from office in this way

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#polity25 The language of Article 67 is wide – Rajya Sabha must pass a resolution to remove the chairperson by ‘a majority of all the then members’, and Lok Sabha must ‘agree’. No Vice President has ever been removed from office in this way

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#culture25 The village was known as Vikrama Chozheeswaram and Kulothunga Chola Nallur. It was Kulothunga who was the first to establish an idol for Sarabeshwarar, which is why this deity is called Aadhi Sarabeshwarar

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#polity25 Union List Subject

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#science25 Researchers at IIIT-Delhi have developed AgeXtend as a tool to efficiently cut down the time taken to identify viable molecules with geroprotectors, or age defying properties, through conventional research.

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#environment25 In an article by the authors published in The Conversation, they noted, “Take the golden bowerbird (Prionodura newtonia), endemic to Queensland’s Wet Tropics. Its habitat appears well preserved, with 84 per cent of its range still forested. But when we drill down, we find only 36 per cent of the rainforest can still be considered high quality.” In West Africa’s rainforests, the Diana monkey still has forests covering 80 per cent of its range — but just 0.7 per cent of high quality,” they added.

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#environment25 The Amur tiger was once widely distributed from Northeast China and Far Eastern There were 55 wild Amur tigers counted by camera trap surveys in Northeast China between 2013 and 2018. But the bulk of the world’s last remaining Amur tigers are now found in the Russian Far East.

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#environment25 The Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) and the Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) are both present in Bangladesh, the researchers confirm in their study.

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#global25 Saydnaya Prison

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#technology25 Haemophilia can be classified as minor or severe depending on the percentage of clotting factor present in those afflicted. Haemophilia A, the more common version of the condition, is caused by the absence of a blood-clotting factor called Factor VIII. Even though haemophilia is a rare disorder, India has the world’s second largest patient pool, with an estimated 40,000 to 100,000 patients.

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