Food Fables : Can tax evasion promote snail consumption in India?Giant African Land Snails, a destructive invasive species, are appearing in Goan fields. While a problem elsewhere, invasivorism, or eating...
22 Dec, 2025, 11.50 AM IST
MURALI + HARBHAJAN + WARNE + KUMBLE: Video of 'best bowling action' goes viral, netizens say this is Kachra from LagaanA cricket video shows a bowler switching arms mid-run, baffling the batter and umpire. The clip has gone viral on social media. Netizens ar...
05 Nov, 2025, 02.09 PM IST
Can your pet do Math? Science says some animals might be quietly crunching numbersA growing body of research suggests that animals—from frogs to crows—can perform primitive math through a system called the Approximate Num...
04 Jul, 2025, 02.20 PM IST
Year in Review: EVs lose the funding race as investors drive a hard bargainIndia’s electric vehicle sector funding halved from $934 million in 2022 to $586 million in 2024. Policy changes and reduced subsidies impa...
26 Dec, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
EVs lose the funding race as investors drive hard bargainFunding in India's electric vehicle (EV) sector has dropped significantly between 2022 and 2024 due to policy changes and a decline in sale...
26 Dec, 2024, 05.00 AM IST
Battery Smart raises $65 million at $340-million valuationBattery Smart's funding round included investments from Blume Ventures, British International Investment, and Ecosystem Integrity Fund. The...
11 Jun, 2024, 09.09 PM IST
Scientists find the largest known genome inside a small plantTmesipteris oblanceolata has the largest known genome on Earth. As the researchers described in a study published Friday, the fern's cells ...
01 Jun, 2024, 11.31 AM IST
India’s PLI Scheme – Spell of manufacturing brilliance or a fallacy?In 2020, the government realised the lacunas of the previous initiatives, came back to the drawing board alongside the ministries and draft...
29 Jan, 2023, 04.25 PM IST
Kenya, Nepal, Mexico or Australia: Meet the natives of the worldWalk into the world of nomadic, indigenous and instinctive.
09 Aug, 2018, 07.50 AM IST
IFC plans to invest up to $25 million in LeapFrog's priority sector fundLeapFrog Emerging Consumer Fund III, a 10-year closed-end private equity fund that focus on the emerging consumer.
07 Apr, 2017, 12.46 AM IST
Spin legend Shane Warne bitten by anaconda on reality TV showWhile performing a task on the show 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!', Warne was bitten by a non-venomous anaconda.
18 Feb, 2016, 02.34 PM IST
What sets the Proteas or the South Africans apart?The Proteas have not lost an overseas Test series for over nine years now – that includes two in India. They have big names but what is it ...
04 Nov, 2015, 12.33 AM IST
CDC Group commits $25 million to LeapFrog Group’s second fundThe commitment by CDC in Leapfrog Fund – II, will be used by the fund to invest in ventures, largely based in Africa and South Asia.
18 Sep, 2013, 07.58 PM IST
- PM's New Year Resolution: Concentrate on the neighbourhood
Top billing will be given to Nepal and Bangladesh, interestingly, not Pakistan.
30 Dec, 2010, 06.09 PM IST
- But 'extinct' frogs haven't croaked
Delighted conservationists have announced they had found two species of African frog (Omaniundu reed & Mount Nimba reed) and a cave-dwellin...
24 Sep, 2010, 04.49 AM IST
'Micro-insurance has great potential'Leapfrog Investments, a fund that claims to be world's first micro insurance fund, sees a huge business opportunity in India, says Jim Roth...
17 Apr, 2010, 09.31 AM IST
- AR Rahman out of Oscar race
Musician AR Rahman is out of this year’s Oscar race after his song Na Na from his Hollywood debut movie Couple’s Retreat failed to earn a n...
03 Feb, 2010, 01.27 AM IST