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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has conveyed his condolences to Smt Sonia Gandhi on the passing away of her mother, Mrs. Paola Maino. The Prime Minister tweeted : “Condolences to Sonia Gandhi Ji on the passing away of her mother, Mrs. Paola Maino. May her soul rest in peace. In this hour of grief, my thoughts are with the ...

On the occasion of Teacher’s day, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will interact with the winners of  National Awards to Teachers, 2022 at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg on 5th September, 2022 at 4:30 PM. The purpose of National Awards to Teachers is to celebrate and honour the unique contribution of some of the finest teachers in the country who through ...

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has expressed deep grief over the untimely demise of Shri Cyrus Mistry. Shri Modi has said that he was a promising business leader who believed in India’s economic prowess. In a tweet, the Prime Minister said; “The untimely demise of Shri Cyrus Mistry is shocking. He was a promising business leader who believed in ...

The agency’s newly upgraded “Eyes on the Solar System” visualization tool includes Artemis I’s trajectory along with a host of other new features. NASA has revamped its “Eyes on the Solar System” 3D visualization tool, making interplanetary travel easier and more interactive than ever. More than two years in the making, the update delivers better controls, improved navigation, and a ...

Kidney stones can cause not only excruciating pain but also are associated with chronic kidney disease, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. If you’ve experienced a kidney stone once, you have a 30% chance of having another kidney stone within five years. Changes in diet are often prescribed to prevent recurrent symptomatic kidney stones. However, little research is available regarding dietary changes for those who have one ...

A new joint study by LSU’s School of Kinesiology, LSU Athletics, Pennington Biomedical Research Center and Our Lady of the Lake researched how the immune system of elite student-athletes responded to the COVID-19 virus. The football players who were diagnosed with COVID-19 were able to have their immune system back to its baseline after isolation. This is in stark contrast ...

Adolescents who sleep less than eight hours a night are more likely to be overweight or obese compared to their peers with sufficient sleep, said a new study presented at ESC Congress 2022. Shorter sleepers were also more likely to have a combination of other unhealthy characteristics including excess fat around the middle, elevated blood pressure, and abnormal blood lipid ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) is entering all office systems, nearly 50 per cent of recruiters believe that it will become a regular part of their hiring process in the coming years, said a report by chat-based direct hiring platform Hirect. A whopping 96.5 per cent of recruiters at Indian startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in India believe that ...

The Income Tax department is scanning all the transactions at hospitals wherre the bills are paid in cash as it violates banking protocol and amounts to tax evasion. The I-T sleuths have decided to monitor cash transactions at hospitals, banquet halls and businesses in a recent move to prevent tax evasion. As per the rule, any cash transaction above Rs. ...

Using sophisticated electronic tags, scientists have assembled a large biologging dataset to garner comparative insights on how sharks, rays, and skates – also known as “elasmobranchs” – use the ocean depths. While some species spend their entire lives in shallow waters close to our shores on the continental shelf, others plunge hundreds of meters or more off the slope waters ...

By harnessing the capabilities of the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, which is part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, astronomers have obtained the sharpest image ever of the star R136a1, the most massive known star in the Universe. Their research, led by NOIRLab astronomer Venu M. Kalari, challenges our understanding of the most massive stars ...

A new analysis of remains from medieval Cambridge shows that local Augustinian friars were almost twice as likely as the city’s general population to be infected by intestinal parasites. This is despite most Augustinian monasteries of the period having latrine blocks and hand-washing facilities, unlike the houses of ordinary working people. Researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Archaeology ...

New research reveals more about the magnitude of January eruption, as researchers call for better preparedness. The eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano in January created an initial wave 90 metres high – almost the height of the Statue of Liberty (93m) University of Bath tsunami expert calls for better warning systems to detect volcanic eruptions, saying systems are ...

As the SLS rocket is scheduled for launch during a two-hour window that opens at 8:33 a.m. EDT Monday, Aug. 29, from Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center, NASA is planning to provide a wide coverage of prelaunch, launch, and postlaunch activities for Artemis I. Artemis I will be the first integrated test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft, Space Launch ...

Sixty million years of climate change triggered the meteoric rise of reptiles around 250 million years ago, not a mass extinction of mammals as previously thought,said a new study. Just over 250 million years ago, during the end of the Permian period, and start of the Triassic, reptiles’ rates of evolution and diversity started exploding, leading to a dizzying variety ...

Facebook, owned by Meta, has been loosing its rank among the Top 10 apps on the US App Store in 2022, said a report by TechCrunch. An analysis of iPhone App Store data shows young consumers are easily shifting to newer social networks such as TikTok and now BeReal, leading to Facebook’s loss of its rank in the App Store’s ...

A latest study has shown that not only adults but children who suffered from Covid-19 are prone to risk of cognitive deficit, insomnia, ischaemic stroke, nerve or psychotic disorders and epilepsy or seizures  months later. The post-Covid risk trajectories differed in children compared with adults, said the team of researchers at the University of Oxford.  Published in The Lancet Psychiatry ...

Crypto lending exchange Crypto.com has laid off more employees in the second round and this time, the firing of employees is worse than the previous job cut, as the global crypto meltdown gets deeper. According to a Decrypt report, the latest round of job cuts has not been announced publicly. During the call, “leadership expressed they had no intention of ...

On the death anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on August 18, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi has written a letter to the Centre to bring back the remains of Netaji kept at the Renkoji Temple in Tokyo, Japan. In her letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she said: “As we celebrate ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ and pledge to take ...

The first and second shift examinations of the fourth phase of the CUET (UG) entrance test held on Wednesday were cancelled for 13 centres, affecting 8,693 candidates due to technical reasons, said UGC. The new date for the examinations is likely to be August 25, said UGC Chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar. The examination was conducted for 1,45,885 candidates in two ...