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For #caturday let us turn our eyes away from the ever burning trumpster fire, ever so briefly, to gaze upon a cat so secretive and rare it wasn’t even photographed until the 21st century. Look at this teeny mighty hunter!
#catsofmastodon #pallas #india #bbc
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/photographing-the-pallas-cat-in-the-himalayas
#NewSpecies!
New spider from #india just caught our attention:
Indothele amboli
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D087A3-FFEF-FF9A-D6C6-FC5D884FF832
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2827
#ejtaxonomy #IndotheleAmboli
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #arachnids #spider
#NewSpecies!
New frog from #india just climbed in:
Minervarya ghatiborealis
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8C7E87F2-8474-FFEF-27C8-FCBF3467FE37
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5594.1.6
#Zootaxa #MinervaryaGhatiborealis
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #herpetology #herps #amphibia #frogfriday #frogs
Freight rates for Russian oil supplies from its Baltic ports to India are declining from recent record highs amid an increase in offers from Western shipowners after Urals crude oil prices fell below a price cap of $60 per barrel, two traders said.
City Palace, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
#jaipur #rajasthan #india #photography
Girl Running with Books in UP Outrage Sparks Over Video
THE VIDEO of an eight-year-old girl clutching her books and running away from her shanty during an anti-encroachment drive in Ambedkar Nagar’s Jalalpur area, has sparked widespread outrage. The footage, which surfaced on social media, showed an earthmover revving nearby, drawing sharp criticism from opposition parties.
https://indiaweekly.biz/girl-running-with-books-video-demolition-up/
#UttarPadesh #Girl #runningirl #books #Demolition #India #viralvideo #viral
In the opening chapter of Kim Stanley Robinson’s provocative novel “The Ministry for the Future” set in near-future India, scores of people on the streets and in hospitals are dying from intense heatwave and high humidity, with the human body no longer able to regulate its temperature. The novel dramatically depicts the grave human impacts of climate change and rising global temperature due to greenhouse gas emissions, a grim reality we are experiencing now
https://opinion.inquirer.net/181836/harping-on-heat-and-health
Today in Labor History March 23, 1931: The authorities hanged Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar for killing a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian Independence movement. Singh was a anti-colonial revolutionary, from Punjab, who was inspired by both Bolshevism and anarchism.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #india #execution #prison #BhagatSingh #revolutionary #independence #colonialism #police #anticolonial #independence #communism
![Singh in 1929, age 21, with a thin moustache, hat looking straight ahead and making eye contact. By Unknown author (Ramnath Photographers, Delhi) - [1] [2], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75154028](https://bookwyrm-social.sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.com/images/status/40811871-6e46-4257-b2d7-e7c74631289d.jpeg "Singh in 1929, age 21, with a thin moustache, hat looking straight ahead and making eye contact. By Unknown author (Ramnath Photographers, Delhi) - [1] [2], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75154028")
I took this on a rainy day at Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi.
Camera 📷: Google Pixel 6a
Location📍: 28° 35' 36.210" N, 77° 14' 57.600" E
Photographer 👨: @joe@jws.social
More Pixels: https://jws.pictures/2022/PXL_20220923_100857551.PANO
#Delhi #NewDelhi #India #HumayunsTomb #Travel #TravelPhotography
What does it mean to be human? My talk and conversation at Synapse 2025 in New Delhi about black holes, the universe, us, and the divine now on YouTube. I had lots of wonderful discussions afterwards and felt really at home among this crowd. Lots of synergies.
https://youtu.be/PCg0eFVhMDo?feature=shared
Thanks to @markmccaughrean for convincing me to go 😉
#astrophysics #astrodon #astronomy #christianity #India #hinduism
The FDA Finally Visited an Indian Drug Factory Linked to U.S. Deaths. It Found Problems.
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The inspection comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that drugs made at the Glenmark Pharmaceuticals plant accounted for an outsized share of U.S. recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly and could harm people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-pharmaceuticals-recalls-fda-inspection?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Ancient wild #dogs: 🐶🐺 #Dholes/Red #Wolves have survived millions of years. Yet #palmoil and #beef #deforestation in #India is now a real threat. Help them when you shop, be #vegan 🥕🥦☮️🫶 #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸🚫#Boycott4Wildlife
http://palmoildetectives.com/2023/04/16/dhole-canis-cuon-alpinus/
From a cramped booth in a crowded conference center on New Delhi’s outskirts, executives from one of Russia’s biggest energy firms made their sales pitch to Indian buyers — take our Arctic gas now, while it’s still cheap.
