At the end of the US-Russia summit in Alaska in 2025 there was no ceasefire for Ukraine. However, US President Donald Trump took no rapid follow-up on sanctions or concrete outcome while Russian President Vladimir Putin came out politically stronger. The debates caught the international attention particularly from India, strongly interested in the issues in question of energy security and trade alike, in view of the lasting US trade embargo to Russian oil imports in question.

Recent botanical research has reassigned already known palm species to the genus Phoenix and a new species was discovered in India. These findings are culled from a reading of Hendrik van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus, dating from the 17th century, The study resolves a long-standing misconception about palms which prevail extensively in the Indian subcontinent and its occluding areas.

Tragedy in Kishtwar: A wake-up call

The quaint little hamlet of Chasoti located near Machail Mata temple in Kishtwar district became the next victim of Jammu & Kashmir’s increasing weather vagaries, as flash floods, caused by heavy rainfall, washed away scores of its residents, killing at least 65 and leaving more than 50 missing. This was no isolated tragedy – it signaled a disturbing trend of climate-related disasters in the Himalayas.

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While international terrorism mutates with new threats — from AI-facilitated attacks to persistent jihadist violence — India is watching one of its oldest insurgencies recede, that of the Naxalites. From a once potent Maoist rebellion, Naxalite violence has plunged in the past few years with repeated security operations and waning ideology appeal. But as India approaches what appears to be the end to its decadelong conflict, the world is staring at a terror landscape that is even more complicated, and where artificial intelligence (AI) can heighten the threats.

A massive pandemic situated to the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre has been recently found and was known as the PelV-1 virus.  A long tail that is much longer than the known virus in the Pelagodinium plankton was found to be infected by this virus.  Around 19 times longer than the COVID-19 coronavirus, the tail is 2.3 micrometers in length.  The discovery contributes to significant new information concerning viruses in the marine ecosystem.