Small steel units can cut power tariffs by 34% if they opt for renewable energy together: Report

The report, “Powering India’s Secondary Steel Transition: The Business Case for Cluster-Based Renewable Electricity Procurement”, was launched at the CII Green Steel and Mining Summit in Raipur on Wednesday at the hands of Shri Arun Sao, Deputy Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh. KOLKATA: India’s small and medium steel units can lower their electricity tariffs by as…

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Suvendu Adhikari slams Congress’ Sonia Gandhi over I-Day Vande Mataram row

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari slams Sonia Gandhi NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday slammed Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi over the controversy surrounding the recitation of Vande Mataram at the Congress headquarters on Independence Day, saying the ‘Entire Bengal fuming, Congress must apologise’.Adhikari also accused the Congress of…

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In 1958, Mahala Ashley Dickerson visited Alaska on vacation and decided to move there; after claiming 160 acres, she became the territory’s first Black homesteader and months later its first Black lawyer

Dickerson had built a career that included several notable firsts. (Anchorage museum photo) American lawyer and civil rights advocate Mahala Ashley Dickerson’s life took her from Montgomery, Alabama, to Alaska, where she broke barriers in both the legal profession and homesteading. Her journey has been featured by the National Park Service among important figures in…

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In 1948, scientists left a giant fossil on an Arctic island because they could not carry it; 78 years later it became a record-size new predator

The fossil of Arctobatrachus urdensis as documented in 1948 (A–C), its skull as it appears today (D), and a reconstructed illustration (E). Scale bar: 10 cm. Credit: Schoch et al., 2026. Nearly 80 years ago, a British expedition discovered the battered remains of a giant fossil on the peak of an Arctic island. Unable to…

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