Ananya Panday wore Manish Malhotra’s royal blue Paithani sari with peacock buttis in zari and zardozi borders

Despite Ananya Panday’s global ambassador-ship of Chanel, the actor remains—to borrow from the Gen Z parlance—desi at heart. This desi-ness makes its way to the fore time and again through her wardrobe choices at wedding ceremonies, movie promotions and public appearances. Recently, for an awards ceremony in Mumbai honoring Marathi cinema, the actor went hyper-specific…

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Mars rover watches Earth disappear behind Phobos photo of the day for Aug. 6, 2025

A composite image captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover on July 2, 2026 showing Earth (the bright dot) passing behind Mars’ moon Phobos in the Red Planet sky. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI) NASA’s Perseverance rover witnessed a rare event recently, when Earth briefly disappeared behind Mars’ moon Phobos in the Red Planet sky. What is it? These…

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KSAPS denies mandatory HIV testing for college students in Karnataka

The Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) has dismissed social media and media reports claiming mandatory HIV testing for college students in Karnataka and rumours that 7,000 students recently tested positive for HIV in the state, describing these as “baseless”. Padma Basavanthappa, Project Director of KSAPS, issued a video statement clarifying that mandatory HIV testing…

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“One Origin of the Genetic Code, but Two Origins of Life”: Scientists Reveal the Ancient Evolutionary Split That Gave Rise to All Life on Earth

An international research team has uncovered how LUCA, the last common ancestor of all life on Earth, split into the first two branches of organisms—bacteria and archaea—allowinglife to thrive innew conditions and spread to other biomes. Scientists from the Institute of Molecular Evolution at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) led the research, revealing their findings…

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Europa Clipper is already in space, travelling 1.8 billion miles toward Jupiter’s moon Europa, where a subsurface ocean holds more water than every ocean on Earth combined — it arrives April 2030 to ask whether anything is alive inside

Europa Clipper is no longer a spacecraft waiting on a launch pad. NASA launched it on 14 October 2024, and it is now following a long route through the Solar System towards Jupiter. That path will cover about 1.8 billion miles, or 2.9 billion kilometres, before the spacecraft reaches the Jupiter system in April 2030….

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IIT Guwahati develops handheld device for rapid bacterial detection

Assam has recorded one other achievement in scientific analysis, with researchers at IIT Guwahati growing a low-cost handheld machine able to quickly detecting micro organism. The innovation has the potential to make bacterial detection quicker, extra accessible and environment friendly, with doable functions in healthcare, environmental monitoring and scientific analysis. The machine was developed by…

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AISA’s Neha Bora alleges ‘RSS-BJP goons’ attacked her, Jharkhand protesters: ‘I wear this ink with pride’

A man allegedly threw ink at All India Students’ Association (AISA) president Neha Bora during a protest march towards the Jharkhand Assembly in Ranchi on Friday. Police later detained the accused. All India Student’s Association (AISA) National President Neha Bora after a man threw ink on her during a protest against the alleged irregularities of…

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