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Padmabhushan awardee Tyeb Mehta, one of India's leading artists, died following a heart attack, his family sources said on Thursday.
Hopeful of getting Myanmar's nod to re-open the historic Stilwell Road connecting India and China, the government has said an alternative route via the Sitwee port in that country would open the North East to the rest of the South Asia.
Great white sharks have some things in common with human serial killers, a new study says: They don't attack at random, but stalk specific victims, lurking out of sight.
As many as 12 new species of frogs and 14 insects have been discovered by scientists across the country in 2008, according to the latest report of the Zoological Survey of India.
Nokrek Biosphere Reserve in Garo Hills district of Meghalaya which has been added to Unesco's list of Worldwide Network of Biosphere Reserves has another distinction of having world's first citrus gene sanctuary.

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