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Forbes
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Kesha Wants Your ‘Attention' On Her Latest Single
Kesha On July 4 last year, Kesha declared her independence with 'Joyride,' her first release through her newly founded Kesha Records label and the lead single to her first album as an independent artist. That album, Period, is set for release this July 4, and the hit-making singer has been tiding fans over in the meantime with the singles 'Delusional,' 'Yippee-Ki-Yay,' and 'Boy Crazy.' With just a few weeks until her new album's release, Kesha is calling her fans to 'Attention' with a new Slayyyter and Rose Gray collaboration. Though 'Attention' doesn't appear on the tracklist for the forthcoming album, it's likely fans will hear it on the upcoming Tits Out Tour, as both artists will be accompanying Kesha as opening acts on different legs. 'Love it, hate it, leave it, take it / Click on the link to see me naked / If you want it, gotta chase it / When you 'uh' me, you can say you made it,' Kesha sings on the upbeat track. 'Tits out, ridin' with the windows down / They're playin' me on the radio right now / My name comin' out of all of y'all's mouths / Is it even a question? Do I have your attention?' When speaking with last year about her creative process and its place in her life, Kesha said that writing and recording new music has become a form of therapy. 'If you feel rage, people can go bash a window of a car, but for me, if I feel rage, I take it to the studio and I currently surround myself with incredibly safe people that help me take my emotion and we alchemize it into song. So, it's become the way I process life and the beautiful part of writing music or making any art of any kind is that you get to process something in, hopefully, a safe way,' she said. 'Once it has come out of your body and onto the page or into the microphone, if you choose to share it, that healing that you experience, then can possibly help to heal other people.' Period is out July 4. The Tits Out Tour kicks off July 1 in Salt Lake City and wraps up March 21 in Dublin.
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Business Standard
13-06-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Rice output may hit record 151 million tonnes in 2025-26 season: USDA
India's rice production in the coming 2025-26 crop marketing season is estimated to touch an all-time high of 151 million tonnes, said the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This would be due to early monsoon onset, abundant precipitation in the soil and the government's higher minimum support price (MSP) for farmers, it said in its latest assessment. In its May assessment, the USDA had pegged 2025-26 rice output at 148 million tonnes (MT), making India the world's largest producer, surpassing China, which produced 146 MT. The June assessment shows that the crop size could be even higher in 2025-26. The government's official estimate had pegged 2024-25 (July 2024 to June 2025) rice production at 149 million tonnes, according to the third advance estimate released a few weeks ago. The latest assessment also shows that India is expected to export a record 25 million tonnes of rice in the world markets in 2025-26. This would be up from 24 million tonnes projected in May. The USDA comes out with monthly projections on world supplies of major agriculture commodities. The present estimate of milled rice production in India is based on the June assessment. Among other crops, the USDA said India's wheat production in 2024-25 has been raised to 117.5 million tonnes in line with the third advance estimate of the government. The optimism on rice production in 2025-26 is mainly fuelled by early onset of southwest monsoon this year and the 'above-normal' forecast. The Met department — in its second forecast for the 2025 monsoon season last month — said that rains are expected to be 106 per cent of the Long Period Average (LPA). This is up from the April prediction of 105 per cent of the LPA. The LPA of the monsoon rainfall over the whole country for 1971-2020 is 87 cm. Not only that, the Met department said that monsoon in almost all the homogenous regions of the country except North-East and parts of Bihar would be normal to above-normal this year. Only Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya could get 'below normal' rains this year, the IMD's regional forecast said. A few weeks ago, the Centre raised the MSP of paddy for the 2025-26 season by a modest 3 per cent, the lowest in five years. The hike was modest as the government granaries are filled with rice.
India Gazette
13-06-2025
- Climate
- India Gazette
Conditions favourable for advancement of southwest monsoon after a long pause: IMD
New Delhi [India], June 13 (ANI): Meteorological conditions have become favourable for further advancement of Southwest monsoon across India, government weather office IMD said in an update Friday. Some more parts of Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and Odisha will get monsoon rains during next 2 days; over some parts of Gujarat, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar during subsequent 3 days, IMD said. Besides, monsoon is likely to be in active phase with heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places and extremely heavy falls (>20 cm/24 hours) at isolated places over south peninsular India and Konkan and Goa during June 13-17, 2025. On the other hand, heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are likely to continue over Northwest India including Western Himalayan Region during next 2 days and reduce thereafter. Heat wave conditions prevailed at many places with severe heat wave conditions at isolated places over Jammu-Kashmir, Haryana, West Rajasthan; Heat wave conditions at many places over Punjab; at some parts over East Rajasthan; at isolated places over Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and East Madhya Pradesh. The Southwest monsoon rainfall over India had stalled for two weeks after the early onset this year. The southwest monsoon hit Kerala on May 24, a week earlier than usual, marking its earliest arrival on the Indian mainland since 2009. The normal onset date for the southwest monsoon is June 1. May 2025 was the wettest since 1901 in India, with the country receiving an average rainfall of 126.7 mm last month. The early onset of the southwest monsoon brought continuous rainfall across southern and eastern India, contributing to this record. After an early onset, the progress of monsoon had stalled, reportedly on May 29, only to be active starting today, as has been updated by the state-run weather office. Monsoons are a key indicator that helps analysts gauge the economic outlook of the country's manufacturing and agricultural sectors. The IMD forecast southwest monsoon rainfall over India to be 106 per cent of the Long Period Average. This projection is more than the 105 per cent forecast in the April update. The long-period average rainfall in India is 868.6 mm. The IMD said that above normal rainfall is most likely over the country as a whole during the monsoon season (June to September) 2025. Region wise, the southwest monsoon rainfall is projected to be above normal over Central India and South Peninsular India (>106 per cent of Long Period Average), normal over Northwest India (92-108 per cent of Long Period Average) and below normal over Northeast India (94% of LPA).>94 per cent of Long Period Average). The state-owned weather office said the country's average rainfall in the month of June is most likely to be above normal (>108 per cent of the Long Period Average). The state-owned weather office said the country's average rainfall in the month of June is most likely to be above normal (>108 per cent of the Long Period Average). The monsoon has onset early on two occasions during the past five years --2022 and 2024. In 2022 and 2024, the monsoon onset was May 29 and May 30, as per IMD data. IMD has been issuing operational forecasts for the date of monsoon onset over Kerala from 2005 onwards. The monsoon has onset early on two occasions during the past five years --2022 and 2024. In 2022 and 2024, the monsoon onset was May 29 and May 30, as per IMD data. IMD has been issuing operational forecasts for the date of monsoon onset over Kerala from 2005 onwards. IMD's operational forecasts of the monsoon onset date over Kerala during the past 20 years (2005-2024) were correct except in 2015. Forecast verification for the recent 5 years (2020-2024) is in the table below. Above-normal monsoon rains help farmers to sow more crops this Kharif season, which bodes well for the overall agriculture sector. Agriculture is the mainstay source of livelihoods for millions of Indians. Traditionally, Indian agriculture, especially the Kharif season, relies heavily on monsoon rainfall. (ANI)
Straits Times
12-06-2025
- Science
- Straits Times
Mongolia's ‘Dragon Prince' dinosaur was forerunner of T. rex
The Khankhuuluu mongoliensis lived roughly 86 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period and was an immediate precursor to the dinosaur lineage called tyrannosaurs. PHOTO: REUTERS ULAANBAATAR - A newly identified mid-sized dinosaur from Mongolia dubbed the "Dragon Prince" has been identified as a pivotal forerunner of Tyrannosaurus rex in an illuminating discovery that has helped clarify the famous predator's complicated family history. Named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis (pronounced khan-KOO-loo mon-gol-ee-EN-sis), it lived roughly 86 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period and was an immediate precursor to the dinosaur lineage called tyrannosaurs, which included some of the largest meat-eating land animals in Earth's history, among them T. rex. Khankhuuluu predated Tyrannosaurus by about 20 million years. It was about 4m long, weighed about 750kg, walked on two legs and had a lengthy snout with a mouthful of sharp teeth. More lightly built than T. rex, its body proportions indicate Khankhuuluu was fleet-footed, likely chasing down smaller prey such as bird-like dinosaurs called oviraptorosaurs and ornithomimosaurs. The largest-known T. rex specimen is 40-1/2 feet long (12.3m). Khankhuuluu means "Dragon Prince" in the Mongolian language. Tyrannosaurus rex means "tyrant king of the lizards." "In the name, we wanted to capture that Khankhuuluu was a small, early form that had not evolved into a king. It was still a prince," said paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky of the University of Calgary in Canada, co-author of the study published on June 11 in the journal Nature. Tyrannosaurs and all other meat-eating dinosaurs are part of a group called theropods. Tyrannosaurs appeared late in the age of dinosaurs, roaming Asia and North America. Khankhuuluu shared many anatomical traits with tyrannosaurs but lacked certain defining characteristics, showing it was a predecessor and not a true member of the lineage. "Khankhuuluu was almost a tyrannosaur, but not quite. For example, the bone along the top of the snout and the bones around the eye are somewhat different from what we see in tyrannosaurs. The snout bone was hollow and the bones around the eye didn't have all the horns and bumps seen in tyrannosaurs," Associate Professor Zelenitsky said. "Khankhuuluu had teeth like steak knives, with serrations along both the front and back edges. Large tyrannosaurs had conical teeth and massive jaws that allowed them to bite with extreme force then hold in order to subdue very large prey. Khankhuuluu's more slender teeth and jaws show this animal took slashing bites to take down smaller prey," Assoc Prof Zelenitsky added. The researchers figured out its anatomy based on fossils of two Khankhuuluu individuals dug up in the 1970s but only now fully studied. These included parts of its skull, arms, legs, tail and back bones. The Khankhuuluu remains, more complete than fossils of other known tyrannosaur forerunners, helped the researchers untangle this lineage's evolutionary history. They concluded that Khankhuuluu was the link between smaller forerunners of tyrannosaurs and later true tyrannosaurs, a transitional animal that reveals how these meat-eaters evolved from speedy and modestly sized species into giant apex predators. "What started as the discovery of a new species ended up with us rewriting the family history of tyrannosaurs," said University of Calgary doctoral student and study lead author Jared Voris. "Before this, there was a lot of confusion about who was related to who when it came to tyrannosaur species." Some scientists had hypothesized that smaller tyrannosaurs like China's Qianzhousaurus - dubbed "Pinnochio-rexes" because of their characteristic long snouts - reflected the lineage's ancestral form. That notion was contradicted by the fact that tyrannosaur forerunner Khankhuuluu differed from them in important ways. "The tyrannosaur family didn't follow a straightforward path where they evolved from small size in early species to larger and larger sizes in later species," Assoc Prof Zelenitsky said. Mr Voris noted that Khankhuuluu demonstrates that the ancestors to the tyrannosaurs lived in Asia. "Around 85 million years ago, these tyrannosaur ancestors crossed a land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska and evolved in North America into the apex predatory tyrannosaurs," Mr Voris said. One line of North American tyrannosaurs later trekked back to Asia and split into two branches - the "Pinnochio-rexes" and massive forms like Tarbosaurus, the researchers said. These apex predators then spread back to North America, they said, paving the way for the appearance of T. rex. Tyrannosaurus ruled western North America at the end of the age of dinosaurs when an asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago. "Khankhuuluu was where it all started but it was still only a distant ancestor of T. rex, at nearly 20 million years older," Assoc Prof Zelenitsky said. "Over a dozen tyrannosaur species evolved in the time between them. It was a great-great-great uncle, sort of." REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
Deccan Herald
11-06-2025
- Science
- Deccan Herald
Mongolia's 'Dragon Prince' dinosaur was forerunner of T rex
Named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis (pronounced khan-KOO-loo mon-gol-ee-EN-sis), it lived roughly 86 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period and was an immediate precursor to the dinosaur lineage called tyrannosaurs.
