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Thousands of Flamingos Turn Thoothukudi Salt Pans Pink as Migration Season Begins

Thoothukudi’s salt pans are more than industrial landscapes. Their shallow saline waters can provide productive feeding and resting habitat for waterbirds. The combination of open water, exposed mud, microorganisms and other aquatic food resources creates conditions that attract flamingos and numerous smaller migratory species during their seasonal movements.

Mecwin Builds Indigenous 45-HP Electric Tractor Powertrain After 500 Hours of Field Testing

The current platform combines the electric motor with an eight-forward and four-reverse multi-speed transmission, differential, final drive, driven rear axle, motor controller and CAN-based vehicle-control interfaces. Mecwin can modify several elements, including the final-drive ratio, packaging, software calibration and interfaces for the tractor’s power take-off and hydraulic systems.

Indian Indology and Sanskrit Programmes Build Growing Academic Presence in Poland

Poland’s interest in Indian civilisation is not a recent development. The country has one of Europe’s longest academic traditions of studying India, with Polish scholars engaging with Sanskrit texts from the nineteenth century. According to the Embassy of India in Warsaw, Sanskrit was being studied at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1860–61, while a dedicated Chair of Sanskrit was established there in 1893.

DRDO’s Next Pinaka Leap: 370-mm Rocket Motor Points to Future 300-km-Class Guided Rocket

The clearest evidence of the new configuration comes from DRDO’s Research Centre Imarat in Hyderabad, which has sought the fabrication of five sets of 370-mm ELRGR rocket-motor systems. The requirement covers specialised manufacturing processes including flow forming, precision machining, welding of 11-10 precipitation-hardening steel and proof-pressure testing. The motor sets are to be supplied to RCI within a six-month delivery window.