Spider webs may hold a surprising record of the animals living nearby. A study found that genetic traces from terrestrial vertebrates can be collected directly from spider webs, turning the structures into passive filters for environmental DNA. Researchers tested 49 webs from an Australian wildlife sanctuary and Perth Zoo and detected vertebrate DNA in every…
More than a dozen former Pakistan cricketers could be hit with two-year sanctions after participating in an “unsanctioned” T20 league in Zambia, with the tournament abruptly halted following intervention from the country’s cricket board.The Asian Legends League in Lusaka attracted several former international players, but the Zambia Cricket Union (ZCU) last week clarified that the…
Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders’ Saurabh Dubey bowls a delivery during his debut IPL match (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav) NEW DELHI: When pacer Saurabh Dubey was picked by Kolkata Knight Riders as an injury replacement for Akash Deep, it raised several eyebrows. Why Dubey? Why a net bowler over a senior domestic pacer? And why him…
EPFO has dismissed these and said this transition was implemented with minimal disruption of services, and the temporary increase in pendency was due to moving to a new enterprise-wide platform NEW DELHI: Weeks after the rollout of the new centralised IT enabled system (CITES) early July by Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), which promised to…
Aamil Keeyan Khan, the screenwriter of ‘Drishyam 3: The Conclusion’, has opened up about creating the final chapter of the Hindi thriller franchise. He discussed the pressure of continuing a story that already has an established audience.In an interaction with The Free Press Journal, Aamil Keeyan Khan explained how the screenplay had to preserve the…
