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Agnikul Cosmos: Indian startup Agnikul Cosmos unveils testing & manufacturing hubs in Chennai to validate reusable rocket stages

STIF is a fully in-house facility for testing reusable rocket stages under flight-like operating conditions NEW DELHI: In a giant step towards attaining reusable launch vehicle technology like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Indian space startup Agnikul Cosmos has inaugurated two new assembly and testing facilities in Chennai.The company unveiled the Stage Testing & Inspection Facility (STIF)…

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Gold soars, but China keeps buying: People’s Bank of China adds 650,000 ounces in August, biggest monthly increase in nearly 3 years, extends buying streak to 22 months

China, which ranks among the world’s biggest official-sector gold buyers, has now continued adding bullion to its reserves for 22 consecutive months. Gold prices are driven not just by the gold individuals buy or sell. In fact, one of the biggest factors that drives gold prices is the trendline of central banks buying or selling…

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Rs 20,700 crore, 326 km more: India completes its Dedicated Freight Corridor network as PM Modi inaugurates three new sections; now fully operational across 2,843 km with 443 trains daily as of now

Together, these stretches cover 326 route kilometres and have been developed at a cost of more than Rs 20,700 crore. India’s dedicated freight corridors network is expanding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurating some key new sections on Tuesday. PM Modi dedicated three key sections of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC) to the nation….

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Samsung India cuts 80-100 jobs as chip prices more than double and smartphone volumes fall 11-12%; another round may come after Diwali, up to 25% of electronics sales and marketing staff at risk

Those affected include director-level officials and team leads at the company’s headquarters. (Image for representative purpose only) Samsung India Electronics has started laying off its workforce in phases as its core smartphone business faces pressure on sales and margins following a more than twofold increase in memory chip prices. Around 80-100 executives in the television…

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By 2022, a Georgia volunteer had spent six years sinking bamboo pyramids to protect young fish; the wider program installed thousands of trees as fishing improved |

An AI-generated representative image of bamboo pyramids under water. Credits: ChatGPT Every year, thousands of natural Christmas trees are discarded after the holiday season. At Georgia’s Allatoona Lake, some of those trees have been given a second chance at life instead of being discarded. By 2022, the unusual recycling effort had transformed into a long-running…

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After a 25-acre Lake Erie wetland was reconnected, sonar recorded 3.44 million fish detections over 2,022 monitoring hours across four years, showing the restored habitat was used continuously

After a 25-acre Lake Erie wetland was reconnected A restored 25-acre coastal wetland on the southern shore of western Lake Erie was used continuously by millions of aquatic animals after it was reconnected to nearby waterways, according to a four-year acoustic monitoring study led by researchers at the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The scientific…

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“We’re excited to impact more”: How Vanessa Trump quietly supported Tiger Woods as his $50M TGR Foundation mission reached more young lives | International Sports News

How Vanessa Trump quietly supported Tiger Woods as his $50M TGR Foundation mission reached more young lives(Getty) Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump shared two notable moments around the golfer’s charity work in early 2026. Vanessa joined Woods for his 50th birthday celebration at The Breakers in Palm Beach on January 14, an event that also…

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England released beavers into a Dorset woodland in 2025; one year later, their dams had turned dense forest into wildlife-rich wetland

One year after beavers were released into the wild at Studland in Dorset, their activity has dramatically reshaped part of the local landscape A pair of wild beavers released in Dorset have transformed a dense woodland into a bright, wetland habitat within just 12 months of arriving in their new home. Data shared by the…

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Brazil planted vast eucalyptus forests for pulp; 45 years later scientists found groundwater had fallen by 4.5 metres | World News

Brazil’s eucalyptus industry was built on a simple promise: grow trees quickly, harvest them for pulp and create a renewable supply for the global paper industry. Over decades, however, the enormous plantations have transformed landscapes across parts of the country, raising concerns about what happens to water beneath the trees. In one eucalyptus-growing region of…

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