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Niraj Kumar wins 50m rifle 3P bronze in Doha and earns India's first rifle quota for LA 2028
It is his first individual World Championship medal and takes India's tally in Doha to 10.

Tigers are raising cubs in Rajasthan's Kailadevi sanctuary for the first time in nearly 30 years: 8 cubs in 5 years
A WWF-India and Rajasthan Forest Department study confirms tigers are breeding beyond Ranthambore.

Indian Navy commandos free all 20 crew of a hijacked Iranian fishing boat off Somalia, with no injuries
INS Kolkata and Air Force-airlifted marine commandos ended the hijack more than 3,000 km from Mumbai.

Ladakh grows saffron on restored barren land, harvesting 22 g in the first four days
Flowers bloomed in under 30 days in Leh, pointing to a new source of income in the cold desert.

Floods strand a 38-year-old chimp on an island, so his sanctuary delivers bananas by drone
Staff at Florida's Save the Chimps made sure Kaleb didn't miss a meal until the water went down.

Researchers find 280 Ice Age engravings that tourists walked past for decades in a Catalan cave
The drawings include 55 animals; before this, only two such images were known in all of Catalonia.
A BARC scientist's Nisargruna plant turns a tonne of kitchen waste into about 150 kg of manure in 24–48 hours, now in Goa's Bicholim
The technology from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre is set to spread to more Goa towns and villages.
Chennai startup EarthFokus has helped 130+ buildings save over 5 billion litres of water by catching hidden leaks
Born during Chennai's 2019 water crisis and incubated at IIT Madras, it uses smart meters and AI to spot waste.
A Gurugram Class 12 student built SkyQi, a free site that rates light pollution from a phone photo; people in 63 countries use it
Suhani Gupta's tool has collected nearly 1,200 night-sky photos from more than 490 people.
Two fishermen pull a cruise ship pianist from the Pacific after about nine hours treading water
The 37-year-old went overboard in the night; the fishing boat spotted him about 20 miles off California around noon.
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