The IIT-JEE (Advance) 2017 counselling process for IIT admissions has been restrained by the Supreme Court following a PIL alleging that the bonus marks were wrongly awarded to candidates. The bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar passed orders restraining counselling for admissions to the IITs which was supposed to begin on Friday. The plea by some students ...
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Heavy Rains to Lash Out Assam, Meghalaya This Weekend: Indian Met Agency
Indian Meteorlogical Department has issued heavy to very heavy rains in nothern and north-eastern and eastern states of Uttarakhand, East Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Sub Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura. Here is the weather forecast issued by IMD for the week starting from July 7, 2017 to July 11, 2017: 07JULY(Day1):♦ Heavy to very ...
Read More »Team Indus Pitches for $40 Mln Funding to Emerge as India’s Equivalent of SpaceX
Team Indus, the only Indian team competing for the Google Lunar XPRIZE, wants to go beyond the challenge and emerge as India’s equivalent of SpaceX, US private space company, with an eye on additional fund-raising to the tune of $40 million in the next round. With its lunar rover mission launch set for December aboard ISRO’s PSLV rocket, Team Indus ...
Read More »Challenging Summer for Green Card Holders?
This is going to be one of the most difficult summers ever for US Green Card and visa holders in all categories as few foreigners are aware of impact from the Presidential Order 13768, said Steven Riznyk, lead immigration attorney. Under the Order, anyone who has any kind of a criminal record, or has even been charged but not convicted ...
Read More »Japan Behind Amelia Earmart Disappearance in 1937? Not Convincing!
First woman pilot Amelia Earhart who disappeared in her 1937 flight around the world still remains a mystery. Eighty years after, on July 4, 2017, when the United States was celebrating its Independence Day, news channels are abuzz with new evidence blaming Japan for her disappearance. A newly surfaced photo from the National Archives shows Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred ...
Read More »Job Loss Bigger Blow Than Divorce: Study
In a new research for Bloomberg, the University of East Anglia and the What Works Center for Wellbeing, an independent body set up by the U.K. government, have revealed that it is worse to loose a job than loosing a spouse in a divorce. The shock from the fact of getting fired in a job is more painful and impacts ...
Read More »West Bengal Governor Threatened Me, Alleges Mamata Banerjee
The communal riots in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday night over a Facebook post have resonated in Raj Bhavan. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi in a meeting in Raj Bhavan had “threatened” her over the communal clashes and described his behaviour like “a BJP block president” and not as governor. Tripathi, ...
Read More »Lady Gaga Comes to Ed Sheeran’s Rescue over Twitter Saga
The singer and song writer Ed Sheeran had a harrowing time for his remarks published in a na interview in “The Sun” magazine on Monday. The singer had said he would cease to be active on Twitter, the social media platform in a huff until Lady Gaga herself came to his rescue. In her typical rescue mission, Lady Gaga shared ...
Read More »India Cites Salahuddin’s Claim as Proof of State-Sponsored Terrorism
In a response to the interview by global terrorist Syed Salauddin, the Pakistan-based self-styled head of the United Jihad Council and Chief of internationally designated terrorist organisation Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, telecast by a Pakistan TV Channel on 2 July 2017, India said it was a clear example of terrorists being given shelter in Pakistan. The official Spokesperson said:”The brazen admission by Syed ...
Read More »India, Pakistan Exchange List of Prisoners as Per 2008 Agreement
As part of the 2008 agreement, India and Pakistan have recently exchanged, through diplomatic channels, at New Delhi and Islamabad, the lists of nationals, including civil prisoners and fishermen of each country lodged in the jails of the other country. The exchange of information is part of the provisions of the Agreement on Consular Access between India and Pakistan, which ...
Read More »Cyberattacks Traced to Ukrainian Servers, Seized Now
The massive cyberattacks around the globe last week have been traced to an Ukrainian servers used by an accounting software firm and seized by police suspecting them of spreading a malware virus that crippled computer systems. Ukraine’s Cyber Police head Serhiy Demedyuk told Reuters that the servers of M.E.Doc, an accounting software firm had been seized as the initial infections ...
Read More »How Did Romans Make Such Solid Concrete 2000 Years Ago? Secret Unveiled
A 2,000-year-old concrete harbor structure, made from volcanic ash, lime and seawater by Romans that has remained a puzzle for long has been cracked by minerologists using X-ray and Advanced Light Source (ALS). A team of researchers working at the Berkeley Lab used X-rays to study samples of Roman concrete at microscopic level to learn about the mineral cements. The ...
Read More »Wiped out Dinosaurs Gave New Life to Frogs: Study
The dinosaurs wiped out from Earth gave rise to most of the frogs alive today. A new study by Chinese and American biologists shows that if the calamity had not wiped the planet clean of most terrestrial life 66 million years ago, 88 percent of today’s frog species wouldn’t be here. Nearly nine out of 10 species of frog today ...
Read More »38 Natural World Heritage Sites Facing Threat, Warns IUCN
Two-thirds of the 57 natural World Heritage sites are affected this year by illegal fishing, logging and poaching, said the monitoring body International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), sending alarm bells over the risk faced by some of the world’s most precious and unique ecosystems and species. On the eve of its 41st session of the World Heritage Committee ...
Read More »SBI Probationary Officers Exam 2017 Main Results Declared
The State Bank of India (SBI) has declared the SBI probationary officers (PO) mains examination result for the test conducted on 4th June, 2017. The SBI PO result 2017 results are available at the online portal of SBI at sbi.co.in and the candidates can check them providing their name, roll number and date of birth in specified space. Thos who ...
Read More »Age of Father in IVF Births Crucial: Study
Men, unlike women, do not have a menopause to say they cease to help in fertility but a recent study has found that the chance of natural conception can be affected by the age of the male partner, particularly in the genetic health of sperm cells. Despite a wide belief and celebrity examples of Charlie Chaplin or Luciano Pavarotti, which have ...
Read More »Bees Have Third Eye, Applicable for Drones’ Night Vision: Study
Machine vision in drones is similar to human vision and cannot see colours clearly owing to light reflection and day and night difference but bees are different with a third eye, said a new study suggesting revamp of vision techniques in cameras, robots and drones. A Melbourne-based researchers team has studied how bees have three special eyes on top of ...
Read More »President Greets America on Independence Day, July 4, 2017
President of India, Mr Pranab Mukherjee has extended his greetings and felicitations to the Government and people of the United States of America on the eve of their Independence Day (July 04, 2017). In a message to Donald J. Trump, the President of the United States of America, the President has said, “On behalf of the Government, the people of ...
Read More »ADB Provides $220 Million to Rajasthan for Highways
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India on Monday signed a $220 million loan for improving connectivity in Rajasthan building efficient state highways. The loan is the first tranche of the $500 million Rajasthan State Highways Investment Program, approved by ADB Board in May 2017, that will upgrade about 2,000 kilometers of state highways and major district ...
Read More »No Religious Bias in GST Law, Clarifies Finance Ministry but Silent on Exemption
Following uproar in social media that the Good s and services tax (GST) rolled out on July 1, 2017 was against the interests of temple trusts as taxes them heavily while obliterating the presence of Waqf Boards and Churches, the government has clarified that there is no such religious bais in GST. “There are some messages going around in the ...
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