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‘Will continue to support all efforts for lasting peace’: PM Modi meets Iranian Prez | India News

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisations Summit in Bishkek and discussed various aspects of bilateral ties.After the meet, PM Modi said that he reiterated New Delhi’s commitment to strengthen its long standing friendship with Iran across diverse sectors.“Met President…

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A Spanish vineyard has gone more than 20 years without irrigation or pesticides; its cover-cropped topsoil now has over twice the organic matter of nearby tilled soil

Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than two decades, the soil between rows of grapevines in a Spanish vineyard has remained covered with spontaneous vegetation instead of being repeatedly tilled. The unusual approach was associated with a striking difference beneath the vines: soil managed with long-term vegetation cover contained more than twice as much organic matter…

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In 1973, Christopher Cadbury funded the £40,000 purchase of a Seychelles island stripped for coconuts and seabird eggs; today over 1 million seabirds breed there each year

For decades, the small island of Aride in the Seychelles was treated less as a wildlife sanctuary and more as a source of income. Its forests were cleared for cultivation, coconut plantations covered parts of the island and its seabirds became a resource that could be harvested. Sooty tern eggs, in particular, were collected in…

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‘Something terribly wrong’: Indian woman questions lifestyle after seeing ‘incredibly fit’ elderly Europeans

‘Something terribly wrong’: Indian woman questions lifestyle after seeing ‘incredibly fit’ elderly Europeans. A recent video has gone viral online, all because one Indian woman noticed something striking while traveling in Europe: Everywhere she went, she saw older people, folks in their seventies or eighties, moving around independently, handling their own luggage, and walking long…

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Navy chief Admiral Swaminathan flags evolving threats, rising maritime contestation | India News

Amid the crisis in West Asia, Navy chief Admiral Krishna Swaminathan on Monday said this is a period of significant strategic churn Amid the crisis in West Asia, Navy chief Admiral Krishna Swaminathan on Monday said this is a period of significant strategic churn, with the maritime environment becoming increasingly contested.The threat perception is constantly…

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India buys record 2.6 mbd Russian crude oil, refines some of it and now sends it back as petrol: why one of world’s biggest oil suppliers Russia has been forced to import 1 million barrels in 2 months from India

India has become an important source of gasoline, or petrol, for Russia. There is a strange irony to the situation. Russia, known to be one of the world’s biggest oil exports and a country among the top 10 with highest crude reserves, is being forced to import petrol. What’s even more interesting is that the…

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