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Indian-origin trans MSP Q Manivannan under fire after calling rape a ‘spectrum’ in viral podcast clip | World News

An Indian-origin transgender, non-binary Scottish Greens MSP has come under fire after a clip from a podcast interview recorded last year resurfaced on social media and went viral.Q Manivannan, who was elected to the Scottish Parliament in May, made the comments during an episode of The Subjective Space, a podcast hosted by Dr Sindhu Rajasekaran….

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Spain replaces its India ambassador after controversy over use of funds for cultural events: Report

Spain pulls ambassador from India amid probe into concerts, €18K payment to singer, book events Spain’s foreign ministry is replacing its ambassador to India, Juan Antonio March, following a series of reports by Spanish outlet The Objective detailing cultural events and spending arranged without the ministry’s knowledge, according to the publication.The Objective reported that the…

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‘My body’s organs unable to cope’: Jharkhand student leader’s health worsens after 15-day hunger strike | Ranchi News

Student leader Devendra Nath Mahto is facing a critical decline in health as he continues his hunger strike to advocate for essential reforms in Jharkhand’s recruitment examination system RANCHI: Amid the ongoing protests over alleged irregularities in the JPSC and JSSC examinations, student leader Devendra Nath Mahto’s health has deteriorated after 15 days of an…

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India-Us Partnership: PM Modi speaks to US VP Vance, discusses ways to deepen India-US strategic partnership | India News

File photo: PM Modi with US vice president JD Vance (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on late Saturday spoke to US vice president JD Vance over the phone and discussed ways to further deepen the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership across key areas.In a post on X, PM Modi wrote, “Received…

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Florida dumped millions of tyres into the ocean to build a reef. More than 50 years later, it is still cleaning them up | World News

In the early 1970s, state officials and the US Army Corps of Engineers approved the dumping of vast numbers of used tyres into the Atlantic Ocean off Broward County, Florida. The idea was simple: create cheap, abundant artificial reef habitat to boost fish populations for anglers. Instead, the scheme left behind what is now known…

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Meet Costa Rica’s tiny ‘coffee frog,’ a nocturnal species found living among coffee shrubs

Image Credit: X/ @AFP News Agency A tiny nocturnal frog has been discovered in Costa Rica’s coffee-growing region. Researcher Wagner Chaves-Acuña told AFP that the newly identified species lives among coffee plantations and nearby waterways, according to findings from colleagues at the University of Costa Rica and Argentina’s National Council for Scientific and Technical Research….

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A moth outbreak has killed off forests across Siberia, now the flammable wood is causing wildfires that humans are unable to contain

An insect outbreak has left Siberia’s forests dead while also transforming the region into a tinderbox where wildfires are now spreading beyond human control. The trees burning across Krasnoyarsk this year were, in a lot of cases, already dead. Not from the fire or the drought, but because of a small moth.Dendrolimus sibiricus, the Siberian…

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