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Jan 14, 2025 | 
downtoearth.org.in | Gargi Mishra
Spotting a rare bird in a rarer geography is every birder’s joy and pride. Recently, birders at the Sultanpur National Park in Gurugram, Haryana experienced this delight as they spotted a Marbled Duck, a Baikal Teal and a Falcated Duck. The experience raised a question: Why are there so many rare sightings this season? Here, the star of the story is the celebrated Falcated Duck. The sightings of the Falcated Ducks in India are irregular and can be termed as 'rare'.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
downtoearth.org.in | Gargi Mishra
They try their fluttering wings, and trust themselves in air. But whether upward to the moon they go,Or dream the winter out in caves below,Or hawk at flies elsewhere, concerns us not to know. Southwards you may be sure they bent their flight,And harboured in a hollow rock at night. —From John Dryden’s poem The Hind and The Panther Somewhere in Central Asia, Mr and Mrs Demoiselle were worried. For, their little angel was venturing into the outside world for the first time.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
or-f.org | Gargi Mishra
For Indian cities to advance their adaptation, mitigation, and resilience agenda, national frameworks are required to prioritise long-term goals in a city infrastructure investment pipeline of projectsImage Source: Getty India aspires to become a US$40-trillion economy by 2047, and in this quest, cities are pivotal. However, a rapidly urbanising India is confronting multidimensional challenges of inequity, overcrowding, infrastructure gaps, and climate change-induced shocks and stresses.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
orfonline.org | Gargi Mishra
Image Source: Getty India aspires to become a US$40-trillion economy by 2047, and in this quest, cities are pivotal. However, a rapidly urbanising India is confronting multidimensional challenges of inequity, overcrowding, infrastructure gaps, and climate change-induced shocks and stresses.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
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Knock-knock, who’s there? The holy Brown Rock Chat. A holy who???... That’s how a timid bird perplexed me at 3:30am in the dark of dawn. It was February 2019 and I was calming the anxieties of my daughter, who was fearing her imminent exams. Persistently knocking my door—I hesitated to investigate any such visitor at an ungodly hour. So, I peeped out from an adjacent window to survey my doorway and was delightfully surprised to find a beautiful, winged creature.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
downtoearth.org.in | Gargi Mishra
January 5 is observed as National Birds Day in some parts of the world. It is aimed at raising awareness for the conservation of avian species that have been adversely affected by habitat destruction, reducing food choices and climate change.
To mark the day this year, India's Union Cabinet Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Bhupender Yadav, made a call for saving the wetlands to preserve bird populations in the country.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
fandomwire.com | Gargi Mishra
Jennifer Lawrence shares a love-hate relationship with the Academy Awards. In 2013, when all the cameras were following her on the way to the main stage, she tripped and hit the floor, becoming the butt of many jokes after the incident. A year later, she tripped over a cone at the start of the red carpet. As expected, jokes at her expense arrived in a timely manner, only this time they were accompanied by a few suggestions of the fall being a part of some act.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
fandomwire.com | Gargi Mishra
Masashi Kishimoto is quite a huge name among the anime fans. He is the creator of the massively popular series Naruto. It’s one of the big three anime and simply one of the best stories ever made, not in Japan but worldwide. At a Comic-con in New York, Kishimoto was the special guest. It was quite an intimate event, and less than 100 people attended it. Christopher Butch, the Director of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF), was the moderator for this event.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
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After nearly 5 months, the Writers Guild of America’s strike finally came to an end as union leaders approved an agreement made with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Writers are now all set to return to the halted projects. Major studios around the world like HBO, Netflix, Warner Bros., and Universal are all set to make their comeback. With the strike out of the way, many Hollywood projects are continuing their productions.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
fandomwire.com | Gargi Mishra
Clint Eastwood is a renowned actor and filmmaker who certainly needs no introduction. He has been a part of the industry for a very long time, and throughout his career, he has delivered some iconic pieces. One of them is his Oscar-nominated 1993 film In the Line of Fire. It’s a fact that, no matter how good your work is, it’s not always necessary that it will be liked by all. Similarly, Eastwood’s 1993 release faced some severe backlash from late actor Alan Rickman.
