In the past two decades, scientists have discovered more than 3,000 exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) but none with life as we know it on Earth. However, there are many more yet to be found in known and unknown planetary systems, says Suvrath Mahadevan , assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University. “The task is difficult but we are hopeful of […]
» Read moreNine rebel Congress MLAs from Uttarakhand joined the BJP in Delhi on Wednesday. These MLAs had revolted against Chief Minister Harish Rawat last month resulting in President’s rule in that State and a Supreme Court-supervised test of strength in the Assembly. Former Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, and former minister Harak Singh Rawat are prominent among those who shifted allegiance. Rekha Arya, another […]
» Read moreThe deep depression over the south west Bay of Bengal is likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm in the next 24 hours. The depression, according to the India Meteorological Department, moved north north-eastwards at a speed of 10 kmph on Wednesday and intensified into a deep depression. It lay centred over west central and adjoining southwest of Bay of […]
» Read moreWith a three-day-long spell of heavy rains over Sri Lanka coming to an end on Wednesday, the toll due to floods and landslides went up to 37. The authorities recovered 17 bodies during the day, including 14 in Aranayake of the Kegalle district, where several families were feared buried in a landslide on Tuesday night. On the damages caused by […]
» Read moreAt least two militants are killed in two ongoing operations in south Kashmir’s Shopian and north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. An encounter started in Shopian district’s Pehlipora area, around 52 km away from Srinagar, on late Monday evening when security forces laid a cordon. In the exchange of fire, one militant, identified as Farooq Sheikh, has been killed. “The operation is […]
» Read moreSadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, against whom the NIA recently dropped charges in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, on Monday launched a hunger strike in a hospital here for not being allowed to visit the Kumbh fair in Ujjain despite a court order in her favour. Sadhvi, who wanted to take a dip in Shipra river and had secured an order […]
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