The iQOO 11, which was recently released in India, can now be purchased through iQOO’s official Indian website and Amazon.in. It is available in Alpha and Legend colors and has two memory options in India — 8GB/256GB and 16GB/256GB. The prices for these options are INR59,999 ($740/€680) and INR64,999 ($800/€735) respectively. However, there are exchange […]
A chill in the air is forecasted to hit the city of Delhi and the surrounding region next week, with temperatures potentially dropping as low as 3 degrees Celsius. Yesterday, the minimum temperature in Delhi was recorded at 10.2 degrees Celsius. According to the Indian Meteorological Department, a cold wave is expected to hit several […]
NASA said earth’s average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest year on record and the situation is “alarming”. However, another study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) termed 2022 as the sixth highest since 1880. The global temperatures in 2022 were 1.6-degree Fahrenheit (0.89-degree Celsius) above the average […]
Elon Musk-owned Twitter is reportedly vacating its co-working spaces in Delhi and Mumbai after having already done so in Bengaluru. Already 150 of the company’s employees who work at the WeWork facility in Mumbai’s BKC, and 80 at The Executive Centre in Delhi’s Qutub area are asked to do so, reports said. IANS, quoting sources, […]
A study by the University of Texas at Austin is providing a glimpse into dinosaur and bird diversity in Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous, just before the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. The fossils represent the first record of theropods — a dinosaur group that includes both modern birds and their closest non-avian dinosaur relatives — […]
The ‘RRR’ Golden Globe award for the original song landed Telugu music composer M.M. Keeravani along the ranks of world famous composers who have struck original concept to get the whole world dance to their tune. In his interview with journalists after receiving his trophy, Keeravani, who’s also known as M.M. Kreem in Hindi movie […]
As the RRR fim song ‘Naatu Naatu’ has won the Golden Globe award for ‘Best Original Song’, one person who deserves a Thank You is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who gave the permission to shoot the song in front of the Presidential Palace, portraying the British era building in 1920s in India. When the film […]
American Indian Jennifer Shah, 49, who starred in ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for running a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted “vulnerable, elderly victims”. Jennifer Shah previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing. Besides the prison […]
The song ‘Naatu Naatu’ from the Indian film ‘RRR’ directed by S.S. Rajamouli was named the Best Original Song in Motion Picture bringing laurels for the RRR team from all corners. Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ won Best Picture, Drama and ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ bagged the Best Picture, Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes […]
Dining out in 2023 would be a costlier on New Year’s eve as oil companies on Sunday, the first day of the New Year, hiked the price of commercial LPG cylinder by Rs 25, effective from today. Rates of domestic LPG cylinders have been kept unchanged. Rates of domestic LPG cylinders have been kept unchanged […]
New York City ushered in 2023 with a dazzling Saturday night spectacle in iconic Times Square, kicking off New Year’s celebrations across the United States. The night culminated with a countdown as a glowing geodesic sphere or the iconic Ball Drop weighing almost six tons descended from its lofty perch atop One Times Square. Its […]
Samsung Electronics said its new ‘Bespoke Refrigerator Family Hub Plus’, equipped with a large touch screen, will be unveiled at CES 2023 to be held in Las Vegas from January 5. At 32 inches, it features a much larger display than the 21.5-inch screen found on previous generations of Samsung Family Hub refrigerators. The new […]
Michael James Pratt, one of the FBI’s ten most wanted fugitives was arrested last week by Spanish authorities, said the agency. Pratt has been a fugitive since 2019 and was named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List earlier this year. Pratt is charged in a 19-count indictment with sex trafficking, production of child […]
Indian-American Rajeev Badyal has been chosen to be one the 30 members selected by US Vice President Kamala Harris to serve on the National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group (UAG) to provide advice on space-related projects and issues. Rajeev Badyal presently leads Amazon’s Project Kuiper — an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth […]
The Congress on Thursday expressed its objections to the Election Commission proposal inviting political parties to observe the functioning of a prototype Multi-Constituency Remote Electronic Voting Machine on January 16, 2023 and to make written submissions by January 31, 2023. The Election Commission of India earlier today said that it is ready to pilot remote […]
The Delhi Police on Thursday announced deployment of more than 18,000 personnel across the national capital ahead of New Year’s celebrations on Saturday night with usual traffic restrictions at Connaught Place from 8 p.m. onwards, besides testing drunk drivers. The traffic will be restricted to enter Connaught Place and only authorised vehicles will be allowed […]
The London Underground is polluted with ultrafine metallic particles small enough to end up in the human bloodstream, according to University of Cambridge researchers. These particles are so small that they are likely being underestimated in surveys of pollution in the world’s oldest metro system. The researchers carried out a new type of pollution analysis, […]
In many countries, the number of fig trees have been declining. While there are numerous explanations, one key problem is fig-wilting disease. A recognized cause of this disease is a fungus, Ceratocystis ficicola, which is transmitted by an ambrosia beetle, Euwallacea interjectus. Now, a group from Nagoya University in central Japan has identified another fungus, […]
A nonprofit group, Carbon Mapper, will use data from NASA’s EMIT mission, plus current airborne and future satellite instruments, to survey waste sites for methane emissions. Observations from the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) and other NASA science instruments will be part of a global survey of point-source emissions of methane from solid […]
The mission’s first two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – could help scientists better understand the Red Planet and engineers prepare for future missions there. NASA’s Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest […]