400 million Facebook users' phone numbers exposed
Phone numbers linked to more than 400 million Facebook accounts were listed online in the latest privacy lapse for the social media giant, U.S. media reports have said.
An exposed server stored 419 million records on users across several databases — including 133 million records on U.S.-based Facebook users, 18 million records of users in the U.K., and another with more than 50 million records on users in Vietnam, according to technology news site TechCruch.
Following the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal, when a firm used Facebook’s lax privacy settings to access millions of users’ personal details, the company disabled a feature that allowed users to search the platform by phone numbers.
The exposure of a user’s phone number leaves them vulnerable to spam calls, SIM-swapping — as recently happened to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey — with hackers able to force-reset the passwords of the compromised accounts.
The privacy lapse was discovered by Sanyam Jain, a security researcher and member at Hague-based non-profit organisation GDI Foundation.
September 15, 2019
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A quick guide to the 2019 Rugby World Cup
The Rugby World Cup starts next week in Japan. The international tournament, held every four years, had its first match in 1987.
Japan will open the 2019 edition against Russia in Tokyo on September 20. A total of 48 matches will be played at 12 venues over six weeks. The final will take place at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama on November 2.
Three-times world champion New Zealand has the best overall competition record, with the most match wins and points scored.
The top five teams going into the World Cup include New Zealand, Ireland, England, South Africa and Wales.
Japan will try to make the most of its 'home advantage' and replicate its surprise victory over South Africa four years ago.
September 15, 2019
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Polish World War II refugees return to Kolhapur for a happy occasion
When Poland was caught between Adolf Hitler’s Germany and Josef Stalin’s Russia during the Second World War, a stream of refugees from Poland made their way to Valivade village in Kolhapur district.
A commemorative pillar for these families who lived in Valivade between 1942 and 1948 will be unveiled on September 14. Several members of a 29-member Polish delegation recall their ‘mini Poland’, with its own church, schools and even a cinema.
Ludmila Jakutowicz's mother brought her a Kolhapuri bangle in the Christmas of 1947. She hasn't removed since then, thus keeping alive her memories of Kolhapur and her bond with India.
Umesh Kashikar is one of the five children of the late Wanda Nowicka. Wanda married Vasant Kashikar and lived on in Kolhapur even after her countrymen went back to other countries in 1948.
Krystana was born in the Valivade camp. She now lives in Wroclaw, Poland.
Dennis Wypijewska was a teenager when he was in India. He remembers the time he spent here to be joyous. He remembers going to Chandoli and Panhala.
September 14, 2019
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HMT museum, where the legacy will remain forever
Have you ever wondered about the mechanism that allows wristwatches to function without batteries? How and why do they go ‘tick-tick’ when their hands and seconds indicators rotate? How does a ‘crown’ of merely a few centimetres rotate the hands of the watch even anti-clockwise?
Wonder no more. In an effort to keep its legacy alive, HMT Watches, the country’s first wristwatch manufacturer, is set to establish a wristwatch and clock museum with wondrous collections in Bengaluru.
Work is under way on setting up the HMT Heritage Centre and Museum, which is being called the country’s first national watch heritage centre, near Jalahalli.
HMT Watches, a public sector undertaking of the Government of India, has been a pioneer in watch manufacturing in the country since 1961. The purpose behind the establishment of this museum is enhancing people’s knowledge on HMT Watches and its products, senior officers at the PSU said.
The engineering experts of HMT have manufactured and sold over 1.1 crore watches till date. Wearing an HMT watch was the dream of most of people back in the day. Former Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, H.D. Deve Gowda and Atal Bihari Vajpayee too used to wear HMT wristwatches and appreciated their accuracy and reliability, a senior officer told The Hindu.
September 13, 2019
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India's new age Instagram calligraphers
The art of writing has evolved over the years and so have the instruments used to write. We have moved a long way from writing on stones and leaves to now using computers, threatening traditional pen-and-paper writing practices like calligraphy.
But new crop of artists are capitalising on the power of platforms like Instagram to help netizens discover the power of handwriting. Here are five Indian modern calligraphers who are taking instagram by storm.
Sadhika Gupta (@delhidoodler08)
Four years ago, it was a post on Instagram that opened Sadhika's eyes to the beauty of brush calligraphy propelling her to start experimenting with the art form. “I was drawn to the way it could instantly bring words to life,” she says.
Bhavika Malhotra (@theinkaffair)
“My day job involved understanding typography, calligraphy, and fonts,” says Bhavika. Three years ago a stint in a digital marketing agency ushered her obsession with the art form. She has her own popular font, Wild Magnolia.
Arunoday Singh (@sufisoul)
Arunoday is cautious about labels and refuses to call himself a calligrapher. He says, “That implies being able to write in multiple fonts.” He explains, “I just write in my own handwriting which is rather calligraphic.
”Georgy Roy (@gy_roy)
George says “Calligraphy is an art that breaks the typographical structure by adding a natural quality to the designs being shown." With three years of experience under his belt, he sticks primarily to hand-lettering which, quite literally, means drawing letters by hand.
Avinash Kharat (@avinash_calligraphy)
Avinash uploads videos of the technique to his social media audience of over 20,000. The strategy has paid off, bringing in deals with clients like Louis Vuitton and Gucci “My technique has allowed me to stay unique over the decade,” he says.
Read more here: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/meet-indias-top-instagram-calligraphers/article29241605.ece
September 13, 2019
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Solving India's hunger problem
The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a plea that starvation deaths continue to eat into the right to life and dignity of social fabric and a “radical” new measure like community kitchens need to be set up across the country to feed the poor and the hungry.
A Bench led by Justice N.V. Ramana issued notice on Monday to the government on the petition filed jointly by activists Anun Dhawan, Ishann Dhawan and Kunjana Singh, represented by advocates Ashima Mandla and Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi.
The petition said State-funded community kitchens was not a novel concept in the country. They pointed out how Tamil Nadu's Amma Unavagam had become a roaring success by involving peers in self-help groups, employing the poor to serve hygienic food to eradicate the gnawing problem of hunger on the streets.
The petition also referred to how Rajasthan's Annapurna Rasoi, Indira Canteens in Karnataka, Delhi's Aam Aadmi Canteen, Anna Canteen in Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand Mukhyamantri Dal Bhat and Odisha's Ahaar Centre were combating starvation and malnutrition crisis.
September 12, 2019
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The Jack Ma story
Jack Ma stepped down as chairman of China’s Alibaba Group on September 10, 2019
Born to a poor family in Hangzhou in southeast China, Ma worked as an English teacher at a local university
With no previous exposure to the internet, his first online search was "beer" and the entrepreneur was surprised when no Chinese beers turned up.
A cash-strapped Ma co-founded Alibaba in his apartment with a group of friends in 1999. Alibaba is now one of the biggest online retail firms
Ma once did a Michael Jackson-inspired dance at an Alibaba anniversary celebration and has also starred in his own kung fu short film
Ma is one of the world's top billionaires with an estimated net worth of 38.6 billion dollars according to Forbes. He stepped down as chairman of Alibaba on his 55th birthday
He had farewell party in the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center stadium with music and celebrity performances
Ma is set to spend more time on philanthropy and education after his retirement
He handpicked Daniel Zhang to take over as the group chairman
September 11, 2019
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Paatima's ₹1 idli, prepared by hand on a grindstone
From the outside, the 30-year-old eatery looks like any other nondescript building in a village. Home to octogenarian M. Kamalathal, in Vadivelampalayam on the outskirts of Coimbatore, visitors arrive here from near and far for her sought-after idlis — priced at ₹1 each.
Ms. Kamalathal wakes up at 5 a.m. every day, and prepares her idli batter and chutney for side dish using a traditional grinding stone. She opens the doors for diners at 6 a.m. and closes at noon, sometimes sooner, depending on how much batter she is left with.
“I use eight kg of rice for the batter,” she said. When asked how many idlis she steamed every day, she replied,: “I don’t have a count for that!”
According to paatima (grandmother), as Ms. Kamalathal is fondly known among her customers, she is 82 years old. Despite her wrinkled, bespectacled face, a bony frame and a slightly hunched back, she appears as sprightly as a middle-aged person, running the cramped eatery all by herself.
With her son taking to gardening work, it is P. Aarthi, wife of Ms. Kamalathal’s grandson, who keeps her company during the day time. “She likes to do everything by herself,” the granddaughter-in-law said, adding that Ms. Kamalathal even chooses the firewood to be used. On paatima’s age, Ms. Aarthi, who intends to continue running the eatery after the old lady, remarked, “She might be even 90 years old.”
With the number of customers visiting the eatery steadily increasing from 7 a.m. onward, Ms. Kamalathal cooks without a pause in her traditional idli vessel, on an an earthen stove with firewood.
September 11, 2019
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Chandrayaan 2's Vikram lander: what we know so far
The Indian Space Research Organisation is continuing its efforts to reconnect with lunar lander Vikram.
The 1.4-tonne lander has been lying silent on the moon’s surface since the early hours of September 7.
ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 mission involved an orbiter, lander (Vikram) and rover (Pragyan).
The Vikram module was to make a historic first soft landing near the moon’s south pole at 1.55 a.m. on September 7. Vikram lost its earth link when it was 2.1 km and about 3 minutes from touchdown.
ISRO said the mission’s orbiter had spotted the lander on the moon on September 8. ISRO Chairman K Sivan said they would try to restore link with the lander for 14 days.
The lander and the rover are not expected to have signals after 14 earth days from September 7. The lunar night will begin and the spacecraft will have run out of solar power.
The ISRO is understood to be trying to call Vikram via the orbiter link. The orbiter is safe in the intended orbit around the moon. With the “precise launch and mission management”, the orbiter's life span will extend to almost seven years.
September 10, 2019
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Villages submerged as Sardar Sarovar dam level rises
Nisarpur is a town located in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. It is located upstream of the Narmada river from the Sardar Sarovar Dam
It is the largest of several other towns now facing submersion by the backwaters of the Narmada river as level in the dam rises.
The area has been experiencing heavy rainfall the past fortnight
Now, around 178 villages face the threat of submersion without appropriate rehabilitation measures.
September 10, 2019
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The Big Fat Company shows us theatre comes in all shapes and sizes
When Bangalore-based Anuradha H.R. realised plus-sized women don’t get enough lead roles in theatre, she founded the Big Fat Company (BFC) in 2017.
When BFC performed their play Head 2 Head for the first time at KH Kala Soudha, a spectator jeered at one of the performers, shouting, “Tindi pota” (a person who loves food). But that doesn't stop BFC from fighting the preference for conventionally ‘beautiful’ women.
BFC tries to challenge the perception that one's identity lies in the body rather than the mind. The company doesn't have an official membership and is currently made up of around 13 to 15 people. They now perform all around India.
Anuradha says she wants BFC to become obsolete at some point.
September 09, 2019
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Who is Bianca Andreescu?
The 19-year-old beat Serena Williams in the 2019 US Open Women's Singles final to become the first Canadian to win a Grand Slam title
September 09, 2019
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Ram Jethmalani through the years
Noted jurist Ram Jethmalani passed away at 7.45 a.m. on September 8, 2019. He was 95 and he died days before his 96th birthday on September 14.
He was the Law Minister twice, criminal lawyer, jurist, teacher, litigant and parliamentarian. He has served as Chairman of Bar Council of India.
He obtained a law degree at the age of 17 and started practising law in Karachi until the partition of India, following which he moved to Bombay.
He married Durga at the age of eighteen and later married lawyer Ratna Shahani in 1952. He had two sons and two daughters- Janak, Shobha, Rani and Mahesh.
He was chosen to be a part of former President S.D. Sharma's cabinet in 1992. He has served as a Union Minister for Law and Urban Development in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Cabinet.
A Rajya Sabha member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, he never shied away from criticising the party leadership. This led to him being expelled in 2013 from the primary membership of the party for six years for “breach of discipline”.
Mr. Jethmalani has fought several high-profile cases during his legal careerHe has defended former deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani in the hawala scam case, stockbroker Harshad Mehta, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, the assassins of former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, and former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.
Leaders across political and social spectrum joined in to pay tributes to the former Union Law Minister. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recollected the contributions of Mr. Jethmalani to both the Court and Parliament while condoling his demise. President Ram Nath Kovind condoled the demise of Ram Jethmalani, a "person of great erudition and intellect".
He is survived by his son Mahesh Jethmalani, a well known lawyer, and daughter Shobha, who is based in the U.S.
September 08, 2019
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China's first cloned kitten
Huang Yu, a 22-year-old Chinese businessman, was dejected when his cat Garlic died in January earlier this year. But now, after seven months, he holds Garlic's clone in his hands thanks to Beijing-based company Sinogene.
The commpany is run by Mi Jidong. Sinogene has cloned several dogs in the past.
The British shorthair is supposedly China's first cloned cat.
It cost Mr. Huang roughly $35,000 to get his pet cloned. The gray-and-white kitten will be sent to Mr. Huang after a month's observation in the Sinogene lab.
Although cloning does not guarantee hundred percent results,“similarity between the two cats is more than 90 per cent,“ says Mr. Huan.
September 08, 2019
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A year after the Section 377 verdict
It has been a year since the Supreme Court judgement on Section 377 of IPC that read down provisions of the British colonial era law that criminalised consensual gay sex. But only half the battle is won.
Vivek Kishore and Vishwa Srivastav are a same-sex couple from Gurgaon. Vivek's family hasn't been supportive of the couple. They had even threatened to call the police on Vivek before the Section 377 judgement. But the couple has found support in Vishwa's mother.
Anjali Gopalan, director of The Naz Foundation, was one of the first people to challenge Section 377. She feels there is still a long way to go.
September 07, 2019
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A brief history of lunar exploration
From NASA's Ranger probes and USSR's Luna missions to the Apollo moon landings and now India's Chandrayaan, human efforts to conquer the moon have continued.
Since the dawn of time, the moon has fascinated humans
Poems and songs have been written about its beauty, spectacle and mystery in every language and culture
In the fifth century B.C, Greek philosopher Anaxagoras suggested the moon was a rocky body and reflected the sun's light. This resulted in Anaxagoras’ arrest and exile as people believed that the moon and sun were Gods. In his honor a crater at the moon’s north pole is named Anaxagoras.
In India, Aryabhata mentions in his book Aryabhatiya in the fifth century AD that the moon’s light is reflected sunlight
Persian astronomer Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, conducted various observations at the Al-Shammisiyyah observatory in Baghdad and estimated the Moon's diameter and its distance from the Earth. His measurements cine close to the measurements we have today. The moon is 384,400 km away from Earth and has a radius of 1738.1 km.
The advent of telescopes helped get a better view our cosmic neighbour and in 1609 Galileo Galilei made one of the first drawings of the Moon.
But it was during the Cold War era that the Moon became the focus of a "space race" between the Soviet Union and the United States of America.
In 1959, Russia’s Luna 2 became the first spacecraft to land on the moon's surface. To compete with the Soviet successes in space, U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a manned Moon landing.
“ I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth....But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon—if we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there....I believe we should go to the moon” (not in voiceover)
Between 1961 and 1965, nine NASA Ranger spacecraft got a few close-up pictures of the moon’s surface.
The Ranger 7 lunar lander which approached the moon on July 31, 1964 is considered the first true success in the United States' early quest to explore the moon. Ranger 7 transmitted 4,308 images in the 15 minutes before it impacted the lunar surface.
In 1966, Russia’s Luna 9 became the first vehicle to soft-land safely on the moon’s surface.
Luna 10 launched in the same year became the first spacecraft to successfully orbit the moon.
But the U.S. scored the biggest win with its Apollo programme.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first people to walk on the moon.
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
From 1970-73, Apollo missions 12 to 17 helped collect several kilograms of lunar samples and helped us understand the moon’s geology.
In 1990 Japan joined the race and placed its Hiten spacecraft in an orbit around the Moon
On November 14, 2008, Chandrayaan 1 landed on the moon and showed the presence of water molecules on the moon
China joined the list of countries to soft land on the Moon when its Yutu rover touched down in 2013.
Its Chang`e-4 landed on the far side of the moon in January 2019 and became the first spacecraft to ever land there.
On February 21, Israel’s lunar lander Beresheet was launched but after a month it was reported to have crash-landed on the Moon.
With Chandrayaan 2 India is set to become the fourth country to soft land on the moon after Russia, U.S and China.
And NASA too is planning to return to the moon in 2024, as a preparatory step to launch missions to Mars and other deep space destinations
September 06, 2019
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Bengaluru's secular pet cemetery
People for Animals in Bengaluru has been awarded the Saalumarada Thimmakka International Award for Environment Conservation this year.
Over three-dozen staff at People for Animals Wildlife Hospital and Rescue Centre, that spreads over six acres of trees and plants at Kengeri, work round the clock to treat injured animals and release them into their natural habitat. The NGO receives nearly 25 calls a day from people who want to help birds, reptiles or animals in distress. “PFA, in 23 years, has rescued 26,000 animals in 198 species of wildlife in Bengaluru, all with just funds coming from the public,” says Alpana Bhartia, one of the four founders, adding, “We feel honoured and humbled to win the prestigious Thimmakka Award.”
According to Colonel (Dr) Navaz Shariff, chief veterinarian and general manager, PFA Wildlife Hospital, they have four helplines, half a dozen trained rescuers, seven ambulances, five two-wheelers, two four-wheelers, four vets qualified in wildlife science, an intensive care, and professional rehabilitation and recovery enclosures working through the year. “PFA does not have a domestic shelter, although their working environment — without artificial lights — is akin to a jungle,” he adds.
September 06, 2019
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Sid Sriram sings his favourite Rajinikanth, Kamal, Vijay and Ajith songs
The singer-composer gives The Hindu a private concert of sorts, as he picks out his favourite songs of Kollywood superstars, and delivers them in his own inimitable style — from 'Kanne Kalaimane' to 'Aalaporaan Thamizhan'. Watch out for a stunning Carnatic rendition and an English vocal from Sid's album 'Entropy' in between too!
September 05, 2019
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Facial payment technology gains popularity in China
No cash, no cards, no wallet, and no smartphones: China’s shoppers are increasingly purchasing goods with just a turn of their heads as the country embraces facial payment technology.
China’s mobile payment infrastructure is one of the most advanced in the world, but the new systems — which require only face recognition — being rolled out nationwide could make even QR codes seem old-fashioned.
Customers simply make a purchase by posing in front of point-of-sale (POS) machines equipped with cameras, after linking an image of their face to a digital payment system or bank account.
September 05, 2019
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Giraffes close to being 'critically endangered'
In Africa, the population of the world's tallest mammals are quietly, yet sharply, in decline.
Giraffe numbers across the continent fell 40 percent between 1985 and 2015, to just under 100,000 animals, according to the best figures available to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
But unlike the clarion calls sounded over the catastrophic collapse of elephant, lion and rhino populations, less attention was paid to the giraffe's private crisis.
The rate of decline is much higher in central and eastern regions, with poaching, habitat destruction and conflict the main drivers blamed for thinning herds of these gentle creatures.
September 04, 2019
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Students of century old Sangli Public school, the first school to start in the district, are busy drying books, files and school benches in the open yard. Heavy shower in the western Maharashtra and Konkan region had flooded the school.
Life is slowly inching back to normalcy in flood-ravaged Sangli in Maharashtra as flood waters receded in the district. About 7 lakh people were shifted to safer locations in the worst-affected Kolhapur and Sangli dictricts. | 📸 Uday Deolekar
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The 105-year-old #Pamban Rail Bridge, at 2.06 km, is the second longest sea bridge in India (after the Bandra-Worli sea link) and connects the pilgrim island town of #Rameswaram with the mainland. On this bridge is a Scherzer’s span, a 65.23-metre rolling lift span that opens like a pair of scissors to allow ships to pass through the Pambam channel.
More than a dozen workers are now carrying out the gigantic task of applying zinc chromate and red oxide zinc chromate — anti-corrosive paints — on the structure in an effort to maintain it. “But even as we paint one side, the other side gets corroded. The span will be given another coat after three months,” says an official. | 📸 L. Balachandar
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Hoof power: A cattle race in progress on a paddy field at Kanjikode in Palakkad district of Kerala. Bull-rearing for racing events is still a lucrative trade in parts of southern India. | 📸 K. K. Mustafah
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The pet dog that has become a symbol of unstinting loyalty amid the loss of lives and destruction at Kavalappara, near Nilambur in Kerala, has been rescued by the Humane Society International.
The Hindu had carried a photograph showing the dog sitting at the site where the house of its master Shivan Pallath and his family stood at Kavalappara, which had been shared widely by other media. None in Shivan’s family is believed to have survived the landslip. | 📷: Sakeer Hussain
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If your home is surrounded by lush greenery and flowers, you may often hear the unmistakable call of mynahs. You will often see them on tree branches, pecking at the base of flowers and on rooftops, gathering food. You may also have spotted jungle mynahs, characterised by the tuft of hair on the forehead, in wooded areas and open agricultural lands next to urban areas.
Here a mynah lovingly feeds her baby in a nest in Tiruchi. |📸 M. Moorthy
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🇮🇳 The first Independence Day, from The Hindu archives:
Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the national flag as the first Prime Minister of free India at the Red Fort in Delhi on the morning of August 15, 1947.
The next image shows the poet Sarojini Naidu, the first woman Governor of an Indian Sate, hoisting the National Flag on the same day in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. | 📸 The Hindu Archives
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Students of the Anjuman-I-Islam college in Mumbai don tricolour head scarves before flag hoisting during Independence Day celebrations at the college. | 📸 Vivek Bendre
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Police personnel take part in the rehearsal parade at the State Secretariat in Chennai's Fort St. George.
The city police have made elaborate arrangements for the Independence Day celebrations on Thursday. 12,000 police personnel will be deployed for bandobust duty. | 📸 R. Ragu
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Kondapally beckons: Butterflies of different species flutter amid lush green surroundings of the Kondapally forest area accentuating the beauty of the place, near Vijayawada.
A recent study revealed that four species of milkweed butterflies are mainly involved in the migration — the Dakhan Dark Blue Tiger, Oriental Blue Tiger, Double-branded Black Crow and Indian Common Crow. The migration takes place across the plains of south India to the southern part of the Western Ghats. | 📸 Ch.Vijaya Bhaskar
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Army rescue boat lies idle at Hira baug area in Sangli, Maharashtra on Monday. Rescue operations slowed down today as people refused to come out to safter places after water started receding.
Kolhapur and Sangli districts have been battling unprecedented floods since the last eight days following heavy rains in Konkan and western parts of the state where 40 people have lost their lives in the deluge. | 📸 Emmnual Yogini
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Thatchamalai is a remote tribal hamlet nestled in the Western Ghats near Pechipparai village in Tamil Nadu’s southern-most district, Kanniyakumari. The hamlet has, for a while, been something of a tourist attraction: there is a picturesque hillock, there are rubber plantations and paddy fields. But for this tribal community, even going to school means sailing across a reservoir, paying ₹300 a month for a ferry. But for the Kani people who live here — 145 families in all —life is anything but a holiday. | 📸 N. Rajesh
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