A New Jersey wildlife centre is caring for 219 box turtles after hundreds were dumped near a river; rescuers are now building outdoor enclosures so the turtles can spend winter as they would in the wild

Eastern box turtle (representative image) More than two months after scores of box turtles were found abandoned along a riverbank in Cranford, New Jersey, the rescue effort has entered a new phase. The Mercer County Wildlife Center now reports caring for 219 turtles connected to the July dumping, up from about 190 in early August….

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Vaibhav Sooryavanshi or Sanju Samson? India face selection dilemma ahead of first T20I against West Indies | Cricket News

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Sanju Samson (Image credit: Insta) LUCKNOW: Coming off the golden glow of their Asian Games triumph in Japan, India step into Tuesday’s fivematch T20I series opener against the West Indies at the Ekana Stadium here carrying momentum, silverware and an intriguing selection headache at the top of the order.While Abhishek Sharma’s explosive…

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In 2011, California completed a 300-acre restoration of former San Diego salt ponds; five-year monitoring later documented 80 bird, 22 fish and 10 invertebrate species

For decades, parts of South San Diego Bay looked very different from the tidal wetlands that once occupied them. Former salt ponds had been separated from the bay, limiting natural tidal flows and reducing habitat for wildlife. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project, a partnership involving…

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‘Creating anarchy to relaunch Rahul’: BJP debunks Congress’ Form 6 claim ahead of protest against CEC | India News

BJP’s Sambit Patra hits out at Rahul Gandhi over Form 6 row ahead of Opposition march to EC NEW DELHI: BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra on Tuesday accused Rahul Gandhi of misleading the public over Form 6. He alleged that the Congress and INDIA bloc were attempting to undermine constitutional institutions ahead of their planned…

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‘Taking medicines and playing every day’: How Koneru Humpy battled diarrhoea to win two medals at Chess Olympiad | Exclusive | Chess News

Indian Grandmaster Koneru Humpy NEW DELHI: What does playing for India actually mean for an athlete? At what point does physical pain become too much? When does the body simply say enough? The Indian teams at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, found themselves answering that question in their own way.Both the open and women’s…

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Paid Rs 1.75 lakh for country club membership, but promised 2,000 sq ft plot not given; consumer commission orders Rs 3.25 lakh plus interest

AI generated image used for representative purpose NEW DELHI: The Delhi state consumer commission has directed a hospitality & holidays club to refund Rs 1.75 lakh paid by a customer for a lifetime membership after finding that the company failed to provide the promised membership benefits, including a 2,000 sq ft complimentary plot in Maharashtra….

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Asian Games 2026: Other side of India’s Asian Games success: 201 athletes won just 6 bronze, 137 returned empty-handed | Asian Games 2026 News

NEW DELHI: India’s 85-medal haul at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games was its secondbest finish, but the headline numbers don’t reveal everything.A sport-by-sport audit by TOI shows that 137 Indian athletes across 16 disciplines returned empty-handed, exposing persistent gaps in the country’s medal ambitions.India’s pruned-down 495-member contingent competed across 36 sport disciplines and finished fourth with…

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