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Sushant Singh Rajput, the actor whose untimely passing on June 14, 2020, left the world in shock, remains one of Bollywood's most unique stars. Known for his diverse roles and deep intellectual curiosity, Sushant had a remarkable personality that drew people to him. Recently, his Chhichhore co-star Prateik Babbar opened up about a memorable conversation with Sushant, revealing a dream the actor had of traveling to Antarctica alone.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.The polar regions fascinated Daniel Liss ever since he was a child.He would study maps and globes, picturing the people and animals who call the coldest reaches of the Earth home. As an adult, he crisscrossed the Alaskan frontier, lived in Sweden, and visited the Norwegian island town of Longyearbyen, one of the world’s northernmost settlements.In December, he crossed a big item off his bucket list, sailing on an Antarctic cruise with Oceanwide Expeditions.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.The day before the MV Hondius’s latest sailing, the crew of the merchant vessel gathered for dinner in Ushuaia, the Argentine resort town known as the gateway to Antarctica.“One Table, Nine Nations, One Epic Journey,” chef Khabir Moraes posted on Instagram on March 31.The Oceanwide Expeditions cruise is now enmeshed in a deadly hantavirus outbreak. Three people have died and at least five more have been infected. Health authorities and airlines are racing to control further spread of the virus.Infections are a risk on cruises given the close quarters.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.SÃO PAULO—A Brazilian gang founded in the country’s violent prisons is fast becoming one of the world’s biggest criminal organizations, reshaping global cocaine flows from South America to Europe’s busiest ports and edging into the U.S.Long under Washington’s radar, the First Capital Command, known by its Portuguese initials PCC, started out as a disgruntled band of inmates fighting for soap and toilet paper in the 1990s.It now has some 40,000 members behind bars and on the streets with a vast network of affiliates—making it the largest criminal group in the Americas by some estimates, operating in nearly 30 countries on every continent except Antarctica.“The PCC has become a truly transnational group,” said Lincoln Gakiya, Brazil’s top PCC prosecutor, who has tracked its rise for two decades. “I believe it is now the fastest-growing criminal organization in the world.”With the scale of Italian organized criminal groups and the efficiency of a multinational corporation, the PCC has helped drive record cocaine seizures in Europe and sparked violent turf wars in the heart of major ports in Belgium and the Netherlands.Prosecutors and police in Brazil are calling on President Trump to label the PCC a Foreign Terrorist Organization, joining more than a dozen other Latin criminal networks.The PCC is organized crime at its most organized, prosecutors say.Unlike the narco-tycoons of Mexico, the heavily armed Colombian cocaine militias or the flashy drug lords of Rio de Janeiro’s Red Command gang, PCC members keep a low, businesslike profile, seeking fortune not fame—and shying away from the kinds of gratuitous violence that attract police and TV news crews.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. While brains are wracked over the global impact of US tariffs, what has left many particularly zapped is the inclusion of a group of remote islands in its target list. Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica is listed as a place whose goods shipped to the US will now attract a 10% import levy.

And he belaboured global trade with them on Wednesday. Much of the planet is in shock. This includes penguins and seals who are the sole inhabitants of Heard and McDonald Islands, an Australian external territory near Antarctica, which has been slapped with a 10% tariff. India is mildly disappointed that its constructive and radical offer to Washington — zero-for-zero tariffs on 70% of manufactured goods — didn't give it a reprieve beyond pharma. But GoI has sensibly taken a 'Keep Calm and Carry On' attitude to what it has come to recognise is a period of geopolitical upheaval, as the US, Russia and China, in their separate ways, disorder the global order.

India and Chile on Tuesday decided to start negotiations on a mutually beneficial comprehensive economic partnership agreement as Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font for wide-ranging talks focusing on boosting bilateral ties in diverse areas. Boric is on a five-day state visit to India to explore ways to shore up bilateral cooperation in a number of areas, including trade and defence. «Today, we have directed our teams to begin discussions on a mutually beneficial comprehensive economic partnership agreement,» Modi said in his media statement after the talks. Partnership in the field of critical minerals will be explored, he said. The prime minister said work will also be done to establish resilient supply and value chains.

SpaceX is set to launch the first human spaceflight directly over Earth's polar regions on Monday — a days-long, privately funded orbital mission involving four astronauts. Named «Fram2» after the famed Norwegian ship built in the 19th century for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, the mission will feature a range of experiments including taking the first X-ray in space and growing mushrooms in microgravity. It's hoped that the research will support future long-duration space travel to Mars.

In the upcoming weeks, skywatchers in the U.S. will be treated to breathtaking views of two celestial phenomena. This week's total lunar eclipse is the first, and in late March there will be a partial solar eclipse. Although not a total eclipse, it is still a breathtaking sight for space enthusiasts.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the cold war that established it as a demilitarised scientific preserve.

Antarctica remains an untouched wilderness has been shattered. In a chilling discovery reported by the Daily Mail, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have detected microplastics in the snow near remote deep-field camps, proving that plastic pollution has infiltrated even the most isolated corners of our planet. The findings raise alarming questions: If Antarctica is no longer safe from plastic, is anywhere on Earth truly uncontaminated? And more importantly—are we already past the point of no return?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. This January, Prime Minister Modi launched Mission Mausam, a project to forecast climate change and extreme weather events. The government has now earmarked ₹1,329 crore in FY26 for this initiative in the Union budget.

A23a, the largest iceberg in the world, was set afloat recently on his journey in the south Atlantic after having been freed from the Filchner Ice Shelf in Antarctica. But this geographic event has instigated several questions as to how the iceberg will now affect the natural ecosystem of South Georgia Island.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. November is halfway through, and you, just like me, might also be wondering: When will winter start in Delhi? The national capital is already grappling with severe fog. Its air quality is regularly dipping to dangerous levels; the city was declared the most polluted capital city in the world on Wednesday.

Akshay Nanavati, a 40-year-old Indian American, embarked on the adventure of a lifetime -a 110-day skiing expedition across Antarctica. If he succeeds, Nanavati will become the first human to complete an unsupported, solo, 2,700-km, coast-to-coast, ski crossing of the coldest, driest, windiest and loneliest continent on the planet. He will be dragging a 200-kg sled packed with food rations and fuel through the distance, surviving temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees. It's what adventurers call 'manhauling.' Preparation itself cost Nanavati — an entrepreneur, speaker and author — the tips of two fingers, lost to frostbite. One was removed because of gangrene. This happened while climbing the Axel Heiberg Glacier in Canada, within the Arctic circle. Back from this ordeal, Nanavati opted for part of the other digit to be removed as well.

The Associated Press has learned that two humpback whales were found dead and another seriously injured this year in huge nets used to collect krill for fishmeal and human dietary supplements near Antarctica

solar eclipse is set to occur on October 2, 2024. According to NASA, «On Oct. 2, 2024, the Moon will pass in front of the Sun, casting its shadow across parts of Earth.» This solar eclipse is often referred to as the "ring of fire." It is an annular solar eclipse, occurring when the Moon passes between the Earth and Sun at its farthest point from Earth. Because the Moon appears smaller than the Sun, it doesn’t completely cover it, creating a striking “ring of fire” effect in the sky.

iceberg in the world, might spend years trapped in its massive circle. This iceberg is roughly 1,640 square miles in size, which makes it five times larger than New York City and marginally larger than Rhode Island. In 1986, A23a separated from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It floated away in 2020, having remained stranded in the Weddell Sea for decades. It didn't, however, make the anticipated transition into the South Atlantic's warmer waters. Rather, it became caught in a revolving current, known as a Taylor Column, just north of the inaccessible South Orkney Islands, with a daily rotation rate of roughly 15 degrees, as per the reports of MSN. A submerged object in a spinning system, such as Earth, is covered by ocean water, forming a Taylor Column. Here, the vortex is brought on by the Pirie Bank, a lump in the ocean floor. A spinning vortex is created above the obstruction as the river separates into two flows. And now the iceberg is spinning around inside this vortex. This phenomena is a distinct and unexpected aspect of ocean dynamics, according to scientists, including professor Mike Meredith and polar expert Mark Brandon.

The notoriously chilly East Antarctica is currently seeing considerably higher-than-normal temperatures, according to recent research. The usual range of minus 58 to minus 76 degrees Fahrenheit has not held, with temperatures instead reaching minus 13 to minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit. These temperatures are far warmer than average for the Antarctic winter, even if it is still very cold.

Mint. The plan involves launching at least one satellite in collaboration with ISRO for weather profiling in each state, and increasing by ten-fold, the number of observation stations, rain gauges, radiosonde (a meteorological device that measures atmospheric parameters and transmits it back to ground stations) and wind profilers deployed in the country.