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India.com
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
Meet Czech Model Who Met Her Ex-Husband At Osho Ashram, Her Sensuous Bollywood Dance Number Made Her Overnight Star, She Quit Films, Is Now Living In...
Yana Gupta is a Czech model turned Bollywood actress, who started off her modelling career at the age of 16, in Japan after graduating in Park Architecture and Gardening. When in India, she was at Rajneesh ashram (Osho) in Pune. According to Wikipedia information, Yana met artist Satyakam Gupta at the ashram and later the two got married there in 2001. However, the couple got divorced in 2005.
New Straits Times
05-05-2025
- New Straits Times
Rennie's remains to be flown back to Malaysia tomorrow
KUALA LUMPUR: The body of the late Malaysian climber Rennie Abdul Ghani, 57, who fell along the Torean trail of Mount Rinjani on Lombok Island, will be flown back to Malaysia tomorrow. This was confirmed by his sister, Yana, when contacted after her brother's body was safely retrieved from the area at 8.30pm (Malaysian time). "My eldest brother's remains are now at Bayankara Mataram Hospital after successfully being brought out from the Torean trail, Mount Rinjani, last night. "He will be flown back to Malaysia tomorrow before being laid to rest in Johor Baru. "Thank you to everyone involved in this tragedy. Our family also apologises for any inconvenience caused," she said. Yana was reported as saying the deceased was a caring older brother, firm but humorous, adventurous, a great planner, and someone who always kept his word and was punctual. It was reported that Rennie had fallen along the Torean trail of the mountain at around noon local time on May 3. A search and rescue operation involved dozens of personnel from the Mataram National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), medical teams, and the East Lombok Search and Rescue. The national park authorities stated that the victim was reported to have fallen in the Banyu Urip area by a guide from the trekking agency, Juan Adventure Rinjani. The victim began his hike via the Sembalun route on May 1, along with a group of 23 climbers.
New Straits Times
04-05-2025
- General
- New Straits Times
'Last climb' ends in tragedy for Malaysian at Indonesia's Mount Rinjani
KUALA LUMPUR: Before leaving for Indonesia last week, 57-year-old Rennie Abdul Ghani told his family that his trip to climb Mount Rinjani in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, would be his final climb. Little did they know that conversation would be their last after Rennie tragically fell from a steep trekking route yesterday. His sister, who only wished to be known as Yana, said her late brother had departed for Indonesia on April 30 to join a hiking expedition involving 23 climbers, organised by a local trekking agency. He was scheduled to return to Malaysia today after completing the climb. However, the family received devastating news at 8pm yesterday (local time) that he had died during the descent. "The last time we gathered was during Aidilfitri, and my brother said this would be the last mountain he wanted to climb. "After that, he planned to focus on marathons. He used to participate in them regularly," she said. Yana added that the family, especially Rennie's wife, was heartbroken by the sudden loss. Rennie, an engineer with an oil and gas company based in Seri Alam, Johor, was remembered by his sister as caring, humorous, and disciplined. "He loved challenges and was known for his reliability and punctuality," she said. Yana also said that Rennie's eldest child is currently in Indonesia to assist in managing the remains. As of this morning, Yana said the body remained at the site due to the difficult terrain. "A helicopter cannot access the area because of the extremely steep slopes. "The rescue team is attempting to retrieve the body manually, on foot. "This process is expected to take about a day, given how challenging the route is," she said. It was reported yesterday that Rennie had fallen along the Torean trail of the mountain at around noon local time. A search and rescue operation involving dozens of personnel from the Mataram National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), medical teams, and the East Lombok Search and Rescue unit is underway. "The victim remains at the scene and is being assisted by the group leader along with three members of the climbing team," Mount Rinjani National Park said in a statement on Saturday. Park authorities identified the climber as 'RAG', who was reported to have fallen in the Banyu Urip area by a guide from Juan Adventure Rinjani, the trekking agency. The group had begun their climb via the Sembalun trail on May 1, accompanied by 23 climbers.
Forbes
10-04-2025
- Science
- Forbes
Siberia's ‘Gateway To Hell' Is A Peek Into The Distant Past — And A Warning For Our Immediate Future
In the northeastern reaches of Siberia, near the town of Batagay, a strange and growing scar splits open the landscape. From satellite view, it resembles a dark, jagged tadpole burned into the forest. On the ground, it's a massive thermokarst depression — technically a megaslump, often addressed as the 'Gateway to Hell.' Measuring over a kilometer long and up to 100 meters deep, the Batagaika Crater is the largest feature of its kind on Earth. And it continues to grow every year. What began decades ago as a shallow dip in the land has become an accelerating collapse of ancient, ice-rich ground. As it expands, Batagaika exposes a record of frozen history and a glimpse of what might lie ahead. It's a portal into the distant past, a permafrost time machine and a real-time indicator of climate disruption already underway. In the 1960s, Soviet deforestation around the Chersky Range removed the forest canopy that had long insulated the frozen ground beneath. Without shade or cover, the permafrost began to absorb more solar radiation. Ice-rich soil warmed, thawed and collapsed, setting off a chain reaction still unfolding today. This process, called thermokarst formation, creates self-reinforcing slumps. Thawing leads to erosion, which exposes more ice to melt, which deepens the collapse. What began as a modest dip in the terrain evolved into a gaping chasm. By the 1980s, the crater had already expanded dramatically. Today, it's still growing, eating through forested hillslopes and releasing once-frozen soil and organic matter as it goes. The sheer volume of thawed ground is staggering, with the megaslump mobilizing a total volume of nearly 35 million cubic meters since its formation, according to a June 2024 study published in Geomorphology. And once the earth has opened like this, there's no easy way to close it. At first glance, it's a gash in the Earth — a scar from warming air and vanishing ice. But descend into the yawning mouth of the Batagaika Crater and you're stepping backward in time. This mile-long megaslump, nicknamed the 'Doorway to the Underworld' by the Yakutian people, has become one of the world's richest windows into the past. As the permafrost collapses, it unearths fossilized gold from tens of thousands of years ago. In 2024, locals pulled from its walls the astonishingly preserved body of a baby mammoth named Yana. Her skin, ears and even eyelashes were still intact after 50,000 years entombed in ice. The Batagaika Crater has also exposed forests buried for over 200,000 years, preserved pollen records and paleosols — ancient soils rich in chemical signatures — that scientists are using to reconstruct climate fluctuations going back to the last interglacial period. Since its formation in the 1960s, the crater has continued to grow, and today it expands by as much as 30 meters per year. In 30 years, it has tripled in size, exposing deeper permafrost layers and releasing ancient carbon. As the Earth warms, what lies frozen doesn't always stay that way. In 2016, a sudden outbreak of anthrax in the Yamal Peninsula — linked to the thawed carcass of an infected reindeer — left dozens ill and killed a child. That bacteria had been locked in permafrost for decades. With permafrost thawing as it is, far older microbes may also be revived in the future. Already, 30,000-year-old viruses have been recovered in viable form — ones that, so far, only infect amoebas. But no one can say for certain what else might emerge. Beyond the microbial unknowns, Batagaika's deepening gash is a direct contributor to the climate crisis. The permafrost beneath it holds thousands of tons of carbon and methane. As the crater expands, those gases are released, amplifying warming and triggering further collapse — a feedback loop that scientists now view as one of the most urgent tipping points on the planet. With each thawed layer, the Batagaika crater unveils relics of long-lost worlds while releasing forces that could reshape our own. In this gaping wound carved by climate and time, the Earth is speaking. The question is whether we're ready to listen. Take the 10-question Climate Change Worry Scale now to see how your concerns compare to global trends—and discover what actions align with your climate mindset.
Khaleej Times
09-04-2025
- Science
- Khaleej Times
Yana, a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth, goes under the scalpel
Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem. But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago. Discovered last year, the calf — nicknamed Yana, for the river basin where she was found — is in a remarkable state of preservation, giving scientists a glimpse into the past and, potentially, the future as climate change thaws the permafrost in which she was found. Yana's skin has kept its greyish-brown colour and clumps of reddish hairs. Her wrinkled trunk is curved and points to her mouth. The orbits of her eyes are perfectly recognisable and her sturdy legs resemble those of a modern-day elephant. This necropsy — an autopsy on an animal — "is an opportunity to look into the past of our planet", said Artemy Goncharov, head of the Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics of Microorganisms at the Institute of Experimental Medicine in Saint Petersburg. Scientists hope to find unique ancient bacteria and carry out genetic analysis of the plants and spores Yana ate to learn more about the place and time she lived. The calf largely avoided the ravages of time because she lay for thousands of years encased in permafrost in the Sakha region in Siberia. Measuring 1.2 metres (nearly four feet) at the shoulder and two metres long, and weighing 180 kilogrammes (nearly 400 pounds), Yana could be the best-preserved mammoth specimen ever found, retaining internal organs and soft tissues, the Russian scientists said. - Stomach, intestines - Dissecting her body is a treasure trove for the half dozen scientists that were carrying out the necropsy in late March at the Mammoth Museum at North-Eastern Federal University in the regional capital, Yakutsk. Wearing white sterile bodysuits, goggles and facemasks, the zoologists and biologists spent several hours working on the front quarters of the mammoth, a species that died out almost 4,000 years ago. "We can see that many organs and tissues are very well preserved," Goncharov said. "The digestive tract is partly preserved, the stomach is preserved. There are still fragments of the intestines, in particular the colon," enabling scientists to take samples, he said. They are "searching for ancient microorganisms" preserved inside the mammoth, so they can study their "evolutionary relationship with modern microorganisms", he said. While one scientist cut Yana's skin with scissors, another made an incision in the inner wall with a scalpel. They then placed tissue samples in test tubes and bags for analysis. Another table held the mammoth's hindquarters, which remained embedded in a cliff when the front quarters fell below. The scent emanating from the mammoth was reminiscent of a mixture of fermented earth and flesh, macerated in the Siberian subsoil. "We are trying to reach the genitals," said Artyom Nedoluzhko, director of the Paleogenomics Laboratory of the European University at Saint Petersburg. "Using special tools, we want to go into her vagina in order to gather material to understand what microbiota lived in her when she was alive." - 'Milk tusks' - Yana was first estimated to have died around 50,000 years ago, but is now dated at "more than 130,000 years" following analysis of the permafrost layer where she lay, said Maxim Cheprasov, director of the Mammoth Museum. As for her age at death, "it's already clear that she is over a year old because her milk tusks have already appeared," he added. Both elephants and mammoths have early milk tusks that later fall out. Scientists are yet to determine why Yana died so young. At the time when this herbivore mammal was chewing grass, "here on the territory of Yakutia there were not yet any humans", Cheprasov said, since they appeared in modern-day Siberia between 28,000 and 32,000 years ago. The secret to Yana's exceptional preservation lies in the permafrost: the soil in this region of Siberia that is frozen year-round and acts like a gigantic freezer, preserving the carcasses of prehistoric animals. The discovery of Yana's exposed body came about because of thawing permafrost, which scientists believe is due to global warming. The study of the microbiology of such ancient remains also explores the "biological risks" of global warming, Goncharov said. Some scientists are researching whether the melting permafrost could release potentially harmful pathogens, he explained. "There are some hypotheses or conjectures that in the permafrost there could be preserved pathogenic microorganisms, which when it thaws can get into the water, plants and the bodies of animals -- and humans," he said. gde/bur/am/cad/jhb/fg © Agence France-Presse
