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Seeing a large monitor lizard inside or around your home can be frightening. These reptiles are strong, fast, and can grow several feet long depending on the species. In tropical and subtropical regions across Asia, Africa, and Australia, monitor lizards sometimes enter residential areas. This usually happens near wetlands, forests, farms, or rapidly expanding urban…
NASA is returning to Earth in a big way. The space agency announced two new satellite missions that might change ‘how we see’ and ‘understand our home planet’. These are not just any satellites; rather, they are supposed to track everything from the ozone layer high up in the sky to glaciers and ice sheets…
Monitor Lizards (Image source: Canva) Monitor lizards are often confused with common house lizards. At first glance, both have long bodies, sharp claws and extended tails. When people see a small wall lizard drop its tail and run away, the question naturally follows. Can larger reptiles, such as monitor lizards, do the same thing? If…
Tata Steel MD and CEO TV Narendran, Tata Steel CFO Koushik Chatterjee NEW DELHI: Govt must keep a watch on unfairly priced steel imports, Tata Steel MD and CEO TV Narendran told TOI in an interview, while adding that the price of the key industrial product is expected to rise in the domestic market in…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence agencies are alarmed and closely monitoring the expansion of terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK). Satellite imagery and photographs reveal the construction of a new “dual-use facility” in the Neelum Valley district.Since November, LeT accelerated the infrastructure build-up of the new centre, named “Jamia Masjid Ibn Taymiyah wa Markaz,” being erected in…
India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by USD 1.033 billion to USD 687.26 billion in the week ended December 5, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday. This comes after the previous reporting week saw a decline of USD 1.877 billion, PTI reported. According to the RBI’s weekly statistical data, foreign currency assets —…
Nvidia has developed a location verification feature for its chips, aiming to help prevent its advanced artificial intelligence processors from being smuggled into countries where exports are restricted, reported Reuters, citing people familiar with the matterThe move comes amid growing pressure in the United States to tighten oversight of high-end AI hardware. Lawmakers and the…
If you regularly monitor your blood sugar, you are likely familiar with the repeated discomfort and inconvenience of finger-prick tests. These traditional methods, although widely used, can cause minor pain, skin irritation, or bruising, and their frequency can reduce adherence. Advances in optical sensing technologies are now offering alternatives that allow you to monitor glucose…
New Delhi: Chief executives of public sector banks have asked to personally monitor top 20 cases pending for admission and top 10 accounts pending for resolution at the NCLT. This was conveyed during a review meeting undertaken by the secretary, department of financial services (DFS), M Nagaraju. The meeting was attended by senior officials of…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed its reluctance to take cognisance and interfere in cases of hate speeches brought before it from every nook and corner of the country, and said the aggrieved person should instead approach police or the concerned high court to raise their grievances.While hearing an application pertaining to alleged calls…
