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AI Representational Image The Abel Tasman National Park can still look much as visitors might expect from a New Zealand wilderness: forest, rivers, beaches and a coastline opening onto the sea. Yet beneath that familiar scenery, the park has undergone a long ecological repair. According to the Project Janszoon official website it began in 2012, parts of the park had lost much of their natural richness to introduced predators and invasive plants. Fourteen years of pest control, weed removal, habitat work, species recovery and education have since changed what can be heard and seen across the landscape. Native birds are…

Ilaiyaraaja has received another international recognition for his contribution to music, with a special commemorative stamp reportedly issued in his honour in Australia. The recognition celebrates the veteran composer’s five-decade journey in cinema and comes at a time when he continues to work on new film projects. For Ilaiyaraaja, who began his musical journey in Tamil Nadu and went on to become one of Indian cinema’s most prolific composers, the honour carries personal significance.Ilaiyaraaja’s special stamp celebrates his 50-year musical journeyThe commemorative stamp was unveiled in connection with Ilaiyaraaja’s more than five decades in music. The honour is associated with…

Surendra Singh Choudhry, better known as Bittu Tabahi, has taken his cleanup mission from Delhi to other parts of the NCR.After collecting 585 kg of waste from a stretch of the Yamuna in Delhi, Bittu and his team moved to Gurugram’s Khedki Daula. This time, they removed 2,435 kg of waste from the area.The three-day #CleanWithBittu drive will now wrap up in Noida, with Yuva Shakti Ghat in Sector 94 announced as the final stop.‘Plastic is extremely harmful for cows’A video shared by Bittu on Instagram shows him arriving at Khedki Daula with his team and getting straight to work.The…

Image credit: Hockey India NEW DELHI: Deepika produced a stunning nine-goal show as India continued their dominant run in women’s hockey at the 2026 Asian Games, thrashing Thailand 20-1 in their Pool B match at the Gifu Prefectural Green Stadium on Wednesday.The forward and drag-flick specialist converted all nine of her goals from penalty corners as India registered their third straight victory of the competition.The win kept the Sjoerd Marijne-coached side at the top of the Pool B standings.Deepika’s nine-goal showDeepika was the star of the match, scoring nine times in a remarkable individual performance.All nine goals came from penalty…

File photo: US president Donald Trump with Chinese premier XI Jinping Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to press US President Donald Trump to halt arms sales to Taiwan when the two leaders meet in Washington this week. Sources have informed Reuters that Beijing is likely to invoke a 1982 US-China agreement that commits Washington to gradually reducing weapons sales to Taipei.The issue is likely to be among the most sensitive points in Xi’s talks with Trump, as Beijing considers Taiwan a core sovereignty issue and has repeatedly demanded an end to US arms sales to the self-governed island.Three sources…

Here is all you need to know about Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey’s comedy series, ‘Brothers’. (Instagram) Eccentric duo Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are back with yet another quirky drama piece; however, this time they’re playing themselves on screen. The OTT series follows the actors’ fictionalised lives and has already created quite a bit of buzz online. With its OTT drop, here’s all you need to know before you can start binge-watching the episodes.Plot of ‘Brothers’Created by Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Lee Eisenberg, and David West Read, the fictionalised comedy-drama series follows real-life best friends McConaughey and Harrelson, playing…

Fashion is always chasing what’s next. Dhruv Kapoor, however, seems more interested in what we already know, and what happens when those familiar things are pulled apart and seen differently.For Spring Summer 2027, Kapoor presented a collection in Milan built around memory, movement and change. His latest collaboration, PUMA X RCB X Dhruv Kapoor, became part of that story, bringing sport and collective identity into his world of reconstructed silhouettes and unexpected proportions.Rather than keeping the familiar PUMA and RCB visual codes intact, Kapoor played with them. Logos, shapes and details were shifted, enlarged or broken up, making something instantly…

India’s Raiza Dhillon (PTI Photo) India’s Raiza Dhillon and Parinaaz Dhaliwal missed out on individual medals after finishing fourth and eighth respectively in the women’s skeet final at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Wednesday, having earlier helped the country secure team bronze.Raiza came agonisingly close to adding another medal to India’s tally, finishing fourth with 23 hits in the eight-shooter final. Parinaaz, meanwhile, was eliminated in eighth place after managing eight hits.Asian Games Full Coverage | Schedule | Medal TallyBoth Indians had made the final after returning identical qualification scores of 111 out of 125. Raiza finished eighth and Parinaaz…

Maxson said the decision to start Trash Turtles came from seeing rubbish being pushed towards the sea (Photo: Surfrider) At 10, Caymus ‘CO’ Maxson noticed something wrong on a beach in Madeira Beach, Florida. In February 2020, she saw beach trash being raked towards the water’s edge. She realised that the incoming tide could carry the waste into the sea and decided to act.Maxson soon started Trash Turtles, a youth-focused environmental nonprofit with the mission to ‘Save the planet one piece of trash at a time’. Over the next six years, the organisation grew from a small effort on one…

‘Vibe’, starring Kunal Kemmu, Preity Zinta and Sparsh Shrivastava, has been getting a lukewarm reception at the box office. The film kicked off with Rs 7.45 crore net in India across its opening weekend, followed by a dip to Rs 90 lakh net on Monday. As focus turned to how it would perform on Tuesday, ‘Vibe’ managed to see an uptick in collections on its fifth day.’Vibe’ box office day 5 collectionAccording to Sacnilk, ‘Vibe’ earned Rs 1.15 crore net in India on day five, bringing its overall total to Rs 9.50 crore net, while its domestic gross stands at…