The findings have renewed concerns not only over the safety of the project itself but also over its wider implications for India. (Generative image) Even as China races to build the world’s largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, its own government-backed geologists have warned that the mega dam sits above an…
Every day, countless substances cling to surfaces around us without becoming part of the material itself. This fascinating process is known as adsorption, and the verb that describes it is adsorb. Although it is often confused with absorption, the two processes are fundamentally different. While absorption involves a substance being taken into the interior of…
While sleeping mid-air sounds unbelievable, it is a special adaptation among birds. As reported in a study published in Nature Communications by the scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, certain species of birds can fall asleep in-flight using unihemispheric slow-wave sleep when one hemisphere of the brain is resting, and the other…
Thursday offered a rare sight for a city that spends much of the year battling hazardous air pollution, and a rarer statistic. Delhi’s air quality slipped into the “good” category for the first time in nearly three years, giving residents a fleeting sense of what it actually feels like to breathe clean air.The continuous monsoon…
Team India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate and Ishan Kishan (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: India assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate did not hold back after India’s poor run in overseas T20Is continued with another series defeat. After being whitewashed 0-2 by Ireland, India have now lost the five-match T20I series against England 0-3 with…
Photo: @pepa.assam/ Instagram As people approach their old age, they look forward to their children for support, care and nurturing, but some others simply decide to forge their own path forward, no matter how difficult the road seems.It’s easy to talk about resilience in that context, but much harder to actually watch someone practice it…
Ketan Agarwal, 25, was allegedly murdered at Lohagad Fort near Pune on June 18 NEW DELHI: The father of Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal has written an emotional letter to President Droupadi Murmu, urging her to ensure a fast-tracked investigation and speedy justice, saying his family has been “shattered” by the loss of both his son…
The Madras High Court declined to grant any interim relief to filmmaker Sudha Kongara, who sought recovery of alleged unpaid dues from the makers of ‘Parasakthi’, Dawn Pictures. Therefore, the court did not stay the theatrical release of ‘Idhayam Murali’ with Atharvaa. Justice K Kumaresh Babu dismissed the plea seeking an interim injunction and permitted…
India notifies rules for UK FTA vehicle import (representational image) India has notified the procedure for importers to claim quota-based tariff concessions on vehicle imports from the United Kingdom under the India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), which comes into effect on July 15.Under the agreement, customs duties on eligible UK vehicle imports will…
pc: University of California San Diego Robotic surgery has become a familiar part of modern healthcare, but the machines used in operating theatres are usually purpose-built systems designed for a narrow set of tasks. humanoid robots, despite rapid advances in recent years, have largely remained outside the surgical environment. That has now begun to change….