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Rare One Month Old White Lion Quadruplets Come Into Limelight

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Extremely rare, four white lions born on, November 6 2020, are going to make their first public appearance on Saturday in a Chinese zoo.

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Sunburst – SolarWinds Cyberattack

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SolarWinds – an IT management company becomes a victim of cyberattack!

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US President confers top US honour ‘Legion of Merit’ to PM Modi

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US President Donald Trump presented ‘Legion of Merit – Degree Chief Commander’ to the Indian PM Narendra Modi.

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New population of blue whales discovered in the western Indian Ocean

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Scientists have found evidence of a previously undiscovered population of blue whales living in the western Indian Ocean

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India’s leopard population shows an increase

Correspondent TCP December 23, 2020 big cats how did Indian's leopards population increase Increase in leopards Leopards Status of Leopard in India 2018

The ‘Status of Leopard in India 2018’ report indicates an increase in the count of leopards, from 7,910 in 2014, to 12,852 in 2018.

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Jupiter and Saturn form the ‘Great Conjunction’ on Winter Solstice.

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On Winter Solstice, Jupiter and Saturn overlapped each other to form a double planet- ‘Great Conjunction’ and were separated by 0.1 degree.

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DRDO unveils Advanced Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Test Facility

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Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated DRDO’s Hypersonic Wind Tunnel test facility at Hyderabad.

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Two new species of fungi eat flies and change them to ‘Zombies’

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Danish scientists discovered two new species of fungi that eat two species of flies and use them to spread their spores.

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The world’s largest iceberg splits into two

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The world’s largest iceberg named A-68a due to strong currents has started moving and colliding with South Georgia Island. It is fractured now and broken into two.

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UNDP releases Human Development Index 2020

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United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) declared the Human Development Index 2020 (HDI). Norway ranked first. India ranked 131.