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Olive Ridley turtles arrive for nesting in Odisha

Around 2,000 turtles had turned up to lay eggs, with the numbers increasing in the next two weeks

1 min read11 Mar 2021
Science

Olilve ridley turtles: Odisha communities embrace mission to save threatened species

Olive ridley turtles navigate thousands of miles of open ocean to reach Odisha, where they come ashore in numbers not seen anywhere else in the world

3 min read21 Mar 2018
Science

Climate change threatens sea turtle population: study

Climate change may imbalance the sea turtle population as above 29 degrees celsius mainly female sea turtles are born while below 29 degrees celsius more males are born

2 min read23 Jun 2017
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The long road to field research

Getting permission for research on a particular species can take several monthsin some cases, more than a yearto arrive

3 min read21 Apr 2017
Science

Oil spill near Chennai threatens Olive Ridley turtles

Indian Coast Guard says around 35 km of coastline off Chennai has been affected by the oil spill while locals say govt slow in containing harm to Olive Ridley turtles

2 min read3 Feb 2017
Politics

News in Numbers | 32,000 entities are under I-T, Sebi scanner for tax evasion

In other news, $40 million is the payout from Diageo that Vijay Mallya transferred to his children’s accounts

4 min read12 Jan 2017
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UP police rescue over 6,000 freshwater turtles in ‘largest’ wildlife haul

UP police recovers over 6,000 freshwater turtles weighing over 4 tonnes from poachers who planned to smuggle them to Southeast Asia, in the country’s largest-ever wildlife haul

1 min read11 Jan 2017
Science

Why turtles evolved to have shells

New study suggests that the broad ribbed proto shell on the earliest partially shelled fossil turtles was for burrowing underground, not for protection

1 min read18 Jul 2016
Lounge

Housefull 3, The Nice Guys hit screens

’Housefull 3’ is an ode to hare-brained antics that should work if you don’t look for sense, while ’The Nice Guys’ does well with its random lunacy dished out by experts

4 min read3 Jun 2016
Opinion

Book review | From Soup to Superstar

From Soup To Superstar is a celebration of seafaring turtles and adventurous marine conservationists who worked tirelessly through the last four decades

4 min read9 May 2016
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