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07/01/2024

The first Indian solar observatory has successfully reached its intended orbit, the country’s Space Research Organisation announced Saturday, as India seeks to cement its status as an emerging space superpower.

The Aditya-L1 spacecraft safely arrived at Lagrange Point L1, the position in space with unobstructed views of the sun located about 1.5 million kilometers (almost a million miles) from Earth, paving the way for scientists to enhance their study of the Sun-Earth System.

05/01/2024

There are a number of active faults off the Noto Peninsula, with the compression pushing underground plates together and forcing one above the other, according to Japan's Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion. This is known as a reverse-type fault mechanism. Earthquakes have been increasing in the area since 2018, with seismic activity becoming higher over the past three years.

There were more than 14,000 small earthquakes occurring off the Noto peninsula in seismic swarm from November 2020 to February 2023 with a magnitude of 1 or more, according to a paper by experts at Japanese universities. A 6.5 magnitude earthquake in the Noto area killed at least one person in May last year.

Considering the changes in crustal deformation zones in the region, it's possible that fluid movements were involved in earlier quakes, according to a report released by the government's earthquake research council.

The biggest earthquake in the Noto peninsula over the last century was the Noto-Hanto earthquake that occurred on March 25, 2007 with a magnitude of 6.9.

05/01/2024

Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI, which powers Copilot's AI capabilities. It integrated AI into other products such as Microsoft 365 and Bing search in 2023. Rival Apple has included a Siri button or option on its touch bar in Macbooks for a few years.

02/01/2024

Printing ‘date of manufacturing’ and ‘unit sale price’ has become mandatory on all packaged commodities effective from Monday, Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh has said. Earlier, companies were given the option to either print the ‘date of manufacturing’ or ‘date of import’ or date of packaging on the packaged commodities.

Now, companies have been mandated to print only the ‘date of manufacturing’, along with the ‘unit sale price’, as per the latest notification issued by the Consumer Affairs Ministry.

21/12/2023

As Christmas draws closer, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shared an image of a swarm of stars and gas also known as “Christmas Tree Cluster”.

The photo was captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. “It’s beginning to look a lot like cosmos. Our Observatory recently spotted the blue-and-white lights that decorate the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” a swarm of stars and gas some 2,500 light-years from Earth,” says the caption of the photo shared on X.

07/12/2023

In 2024, auto dealers for the first time will be able to sell vehicles in Amazon’s U.S. store, and Hyundai will be the first brand available for customers to purchase.

07/12/2023

The spherical model of the Moon, with a diameter of 7 metres, had won recognition at various international venues before it came to Kerala. The spherical surface is decorated with 120 dpi (dots per inch) printed imagery of the Moon’s surface from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The scale of the installation is 1 centimetre to 5 kilometres. It was stitched together by the Astrogeology Science Centre of the United States Geological Survey. This will give a realistic feel of the heavily cratered lunar surface.

06/12/2023

The deceased have been identified as Anil Rajendran, 34, Sudheesh Sundaran, 34, Rahul Krishnan, 28, and Vignesh Shivan, 23. Cab driver Ajaz Ahmad Awan, from Kashmir, also died. The group of youngsters — all belonging to an extended family of Nallepilly panchayat in Palakkad district — had split into two vehicles, one of which met with the accident in central Kashmir’s Ganderbal district.

The vehicle carrying eight people reportedly skidded off the strategic pass as there was snow all around. Primary reports suggested the four tourists died on the spot while the cab driver was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to the injuries.

06/12/2023

Cyclone Michaung barrelled into the southern Indian coast on Tuesday with intense winds, its arrival preceded by torrential rains and flooding that killed at least 13 people, as officials assessed the damage.

Tall waves crashed into southern coastal towns over the last two days as the cyclone approached, submerging entire villages and halting all transportation as more than 390,000 people felt its impact, authorities said.

04/12/2023

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Italian counterpart, Georgia Meloni, along the sidelines of the COP28 climate action summit in Dubai. Meloni posted online a selfie with Modi on Friday with the hashtag Melodi.

“Good friends at COP28,” the Italian far-right leader captioned the photo. Modi reposted it on X, formerly Twitter, and wrote, “Meeting friends is always a delight.” The photo soon went viral and the hashtag Melodi has been trending on the platform.

29/11/2023

A day after the 400-hour operation, which led to the safe passage of 41 trapped workers inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami met and enquired about the health of rescued workers at Chinyalisaur Community Health Centre on Wednesday, and handed over relief cheques to them.

Capping an operation that lasted over 400 hours, rescuers managed to reach 41 workers trapped in the Uttarkashi tunnel since November 12. It was a test of grit and perseverance – for men on both sides of the 57 metres of debris – as the rescue operation suffered one setback after another. In the end, with the drilling machine giving way, it was miners who dug through the last 12 metres and reached the trapped men. Soon after the workers were rescued, PM Modi had a telephonic conversation with the 41 workers, during which he praised the workers for sticking around with each other as they waited patiently for the rescue team to reach them.

28/11/2023

More than twenty hours after Abigail Sara Reji, a six-year-old child was abducted near her home at Oyoor in Kerala’s Kollam, the police found her from the Asramam Maidan in the city about 25 km away from her home on Tuesday, November 28. The four people who kidnapped her, one of them a woman, abandoned the child before absconding. With the police having traced details of the car in which Sara was kidnapped, and made a sketch of one of the kidnappers, it is believed that the kidnappers found it untenable to keep the kid with them.

22/11/2023

Of South Korea’s countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the first is that it’s been illegal since 2005, and the second is because they have perhaps the world’s most sophisticated food waste disposal infrastructure.

While representing a significant burden on the economy, the food waste disposal nevertheless produces ample supplies of animal feed, fertilizer, and biogas that heats thousands of homes.

With the culture erring on the side of abundance rather than restraint, many of these small dishes of tofu, kimchi, bean sprouts, and other bites would be tossed in the landfill if it wasn’t illegal to do so.

The government put the ban hammer on it because the mountainous terrain isn’t ideal for landfill construction.

Instead, restauranteurs and street hawkers pay the municipality for a sticker that goes on the outside of special bins. Once filled with food scraps, they are left on the road for collectors in the morning who take 90% of all such waste in the country to specialized collection facilities.

At apartments and among residential housing areas, hi-tech food waste disposal machines are operated by a keycard owned by residents under contract with the disposal companies.

21/11/2023

The 23-year-old Jane Dipika is an American-born Nepali model. The pageant winner and body positivity advocate stands 5-feet 7-inches tall and weighs 80 kg. Her entry in the top 20 of the Miss Universe 2023 marked the first time a plus-size contestant entered the semi final stage of the pageant.

21/11/2023

On November 21, 1963, an American-made Nike-Apache rocket with a French payload lifted off from what was then a little-known village in coastal Thiruvananthapuram, carrying aloft the dreams and ambitions of a young nation not yet two decades into independence.

19/11/2023

The Indian innings was led by KL Rahul, who scored 66, followed by Virat Kohli with 54 and Rohit Sharma contributing 47.

15/11/2023

Mohammed Shami took seven wickets as India defeated New Zealand by 70 runs.

14/11/2023

An Ernakulam sessions court today awarded the death sentence to one Ashfaq Alam for the r**e and murder of a five-year-old child in Aluva **e

12/11/2023

The Rohit Sharma-led side are the only team in the tournament to not have lost a single game yet and will look to keep the momentum going into the semi-final game.

07/11/2023

A chronological analysis places the timeline of the coins between AD 324 (coinage of Licinius), and AD 340 (coinage of Constantine the Great).

Tens of thousands of Roman coins, what appear to be spoils of war, have been discovered in the sea near the northeast coast of Sardinia, the Italian Ministry of

07/11/2023

Bill also cancels rides liberally -- notching a cancel rate of 34 percent -- much higher than Uber's 10 percent recommended levels.

A 70-year-old Uber driver from North Carolina USA has a trick up his sleeve to earn big dollars -- cancelling over 30 percent of his rides each year, Business I

07/11/2023

Kejriwal and his party have denied the allegations and claimed that the new policy would have led to an increase in revenue share.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will run the Delhi government from jail if he is arrested in the coming days, referring

07/11/2023

Things got heated up ever since Mathews became the first batter to be given out ‘timed out’ in international cricket.

Angelo Mathews shared video evidence as ‘proof’, claiming that he was wrongly given ‘timed out’ in the World Cup 2023 match against Bangladesh on Monday, Novemb

06/11/2023

Vehicles whose number plates end with even numbers – 0, 2, 4, 6 and 8 – will be allowed to ply on even-numbered dates.

The odd-even vehicle rationing scheme, a flagship measure of the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government to tackle air pollution, will be reintroduced in the natio

06/11/2023

This performance underlined the exceptional form of the Indian team and their dominance in the tournament.

After achieving a record win over South Africa in the ICC World Cup 2023 match in Kolkata, Team India celebrated star batter Virat Kohli's birthday and all-roun

06/11/2023

Arjuna Ranatunga, who led the Sri Lankan cricket team to their only World Cup title in 1996, was appointed as the interim chairman of the board

Sri Lanka's Sports Minister, Roshan Ranasinghe, sacked the national cricket board in light of the team's underwhelming World Cup performance, particularly their

06/11/2023

Air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of fetal damage.

The 'severe' air pollution levels in Delhi are poised to have significant impacts on the health of its residents, health experts warned as the pollution situati

06/11/2023

She was alone at home during the attack as her husband was away on a visit to his hometown, Teerthahalli.

A 37-year-old geologist working under the government of Karnataka was stabbed to death at her residence in Bengaluru, the police said on Sunday.According to pol

06/11/2023

Israel's bombing of hospitals in Gaza has been flagged by international agencies as a clear violation of international humanitarian law.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been pounding Palestine's densely populated Gaza Strip for the past 27 days, following a surprise attack by Hamas fighters.

05/11/2023

He rose to prominence in the world of arts and literature through his notable contributions as a playwright, poet, and painter.

Renowned playwright, poet, painter, and thinker Gieve Patel passed away at the Cipla Palliative Care and Training Centre in Pune on Friday afternoon, the Times