Britain’s seagrass meadows were disappearing; a Scottish community transplanted mature shoots instead of seeds and achieved 97% survival | World News

Britain’s seagrass meadows have suffered decades of decline, but a community-led project on Scotland’s west coast is showing that restoring them may not always require starting from seeds. Seawilding, a Scottish marine restoration charity, has been experimenting with transplanting mature Zostera marina shoots from healthy donor meadows into areas where seagrass has been lost. The…

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SAI creates ‘Little Japan’ in India: Athletes get a taste of Asian Games life in containers | More sports News

Inside SAI’s ‘Little Japan’ (TOI Photo) BENGALURU: Shipping containers with exteriors painted with cherry blossoms and chochins — traditional Japanese lanterns — hung on the sides have been transformed into two-bedroom accommodation. Inside are modern amenities, an LED screen displaying information about the Asian Games and Japanese books such as Ikigai and Kaizen. The menu…

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Lone Malaysian elephant, who went viral for walking 100 km with an injured leg amid traffic to return to his herd, finds new home

Lone Malaysian elephant Sulong Challi who walked 100 km probably in search of his herd has been relocated to a rainforest area by the forest department. For nearly two weeks, a lone injured elephant walking along a busy highway in Malaysia became an unlikely internet sensation. Now Sulong Chalil has a new home, after wildlife…

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Neighbour occupied 4.27 acres for 40 years and his name was added in land records; Karnataka HC rejects adverse possession claim and restores original owner’s title

​The ruling arose from a dispute over 4 acres 11 guntas of land in Sira Taluk of Tumakuru district. Your neighbour has possession of your land and after some years claims ownership of it on the basis of long possession. Is that legal? Karnataka High Court recently ruled on one such case.The Karnataka High Court,…

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In 1972, Illinois used 246,000 cubic yards of coal fly ash beneath 7,500 feet of expressway; monitoring found no evidence of settlement, frost or capillary-rise problems

More than five decades ago, civil engineers in northern Illinois carried out a major engineering experiment by using 246,000 cubic yards of coal fly ash beneath 7,500 feet of a major expressway embankment. The pioneering project, completed in 1972 near Waukegan along the US Route 41 corridor, was one of the earliest large-scale examples of…

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Keyaa Banerji lifted 140kg and went viral. Then came thousands of AI images, fake accounts and online abuse — why she created a new Instagram account | More sports News

Indian powerlifter Keyaa Kunal Banerji’s remarkable 140kg deadlift was supposed to be a moment of sporting celebration. Instead, the viral attention surrounding her silver-medal-winning performance at the 2026 IPF World Sub-Junior & Junior Classic Powerlifting Championships has exposed her to a deeply disturbing side of online fame.The 21-year-old powerlifter has revealed that she has faced…

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