President Murmu presents 68th National Film Awards’2022

President Murmu presents 68th National Film Awards’2022

Cinema is not only an Industry but it is also a Medium of Artistic Expression of our Culture and Values: President Murmu. The President of India, Droupadi Murmu, presented the 68th National Film Awards in various categories in New Delhi today (September 30, 2022). She also conferred Dadasaheb Phalke Award on Ms Asha Parekh. Speaking […]

RBI hikes Repo Rate by another 50 basis points to 5.9%

RBI hikes Repo Rate by another 50 basis points to 5.9%

GDP for 2022-23 projected to grow at 7.0%. Internet banking facility to be started for Regional Rural Banks’ customers. Regulation of offline payment aggregators proposed. Repo Rate hiked to 5.90% The repo rate, the rate at which RBI lends money to commercial banks, has been hiked by 50 basis points again. Considering the prevailing adverse […]

National level exhibition of traditional products from SFURTI Mela opens for Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav [Colourful products]

National level exhibition of traditional products from SFURTI Mela opens for Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav [Colourful products]

Khadi and Village Industries Commission, a Statutory Body under Ministry of MSME, is organizing a SFURTI Mela at Dilli Haat, INA, New Delhi from 1st October to 15th October, 2022. This national level exhibition of traditional products from SFURTI clusters is being organized for the first time, also commemorating the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. Under SFURTI, […]

Bitcoin Mining: Researchers find it environmentally unsustainable, threat to future energy

Bitcoin Mining: Researchers find it environmentally unsustainable, threat to future energy

Taken as a share of the market price, the climate change impacts of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is more comparable to the impacts of extracting and refining crude oil than mining gold, according to an analysis published in Scientific Reports by researchers at The University of New Mexico. The authors suggest that rather than being considered […]

PM Modi flags off new Vande Bharat Express between Gandhinagar and Mumbai

PM Modi flags off new Vande Bharat Express between Gandhinagar and Mumbai

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi flagged off Gandhinagar- Mumbai Vande Bharat Express at Gandhinagar station and travelled on the train from there to Kalupur Railway Station today. When he arrived at Gandhinagar station, the Prime Minister was accompanied by Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Bhupendra Patel, Governor of Gujarat, Shri Acharya Devvrat, Union Minister […]

Webb Telescope, Hubble Telescope Capture Detailed images of DART Impact

Webb Telescope, Hubble Telescope Capture Detailed images of DART Impact

Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have captured views of a unique NASA experiment designed to intentionally smash a spacecraft into a small asteroid in the world’s first-ever in-space test for planetary defense. These observations of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impact mark the first […]

Astronomers Detect Protective Shield Defending Pair of ‘Dwarf Galaxies’ with help of FUSE, Hubble

Astronomers Detect Protective Shield Defending Pair of ‘Dwarf Galaxies’ with help of FUSE, Hubble

For billions of years, the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxies – the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds – have followed a perilous journey. Orbiting one another as they are pulled in toward our home galaxy, they have begun to unravel, leaving behind trails of gaseous debris. And yet – to the puzzlement of astronomers – these dwarf galaxies remain […]

NASA-Built ‘Weather Sensors’ Capture Vital Data on Hurricane Ian

NASA-Built ‘Weather Sensors’ Capture Vital Data on Hurricane Ian

A pair of microwave radiometers collected data on the storm as they passed over the Caribbean Sea aboard the International Space Station. Two recently launched instruments that were designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to provide forecasters data on weather over the open ocean captured images of Hurricane Ian on […]

A reliable smart app ‘DryEyeRhythm’ to assess Dry eye disease; What is the disease [Details]

A reliable smart app ‘DryEyeRhythm’ to assess Dry eye disease; What is the disease [Details]

Dry eye disease (DED) is a condition characterized by an array of different symptoms, including dryness, ocular discomfort, fatigue, and visual disturbances. This condition has become increasingly common in recent years owing to an aging society, increased screen time, and a highly stressful social environment. There are about 1 billion people, worldwide, who have DED. […]

Novel device: ‘Surface mapping’ a reliable diagnostic tool for gut health

Novel device: ‘Surface mapping’ a reliable diagnostic tool for gut health

Non-invasive sensors laid on the skin’s surface to measure bioelectrical activity could offer a better alternative for patients suffering with poor gut health. Stefan Calder, a recent PhD graduate at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI), at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland is the lead and joint-first author for two papers published in prestigious scientific […]

Did the pandemic change our personalities? Increased neuroticism among young adults seen: Study

Did the pandemic change our personalities? Increased neuroticism among young adults seen: Study

Despite a long-standing hypothesis that personality traits are relatively impervious to environmental pressures, the COVID-19 pandemic may have altered the trajectory of personality across the United States, especially in younger adults, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Angelina Sutin of Florida State University College of Medicine, and colleagues. […]

Telecom fraud: DoT unearths fraudulent illegal Telecom set-ups to route ISD calls

Telecom fraud: DoT unearths fraudulent illegal Telecom set-ups to route ISD calls

Fraudsters use illegal telecom set-ups to route ISD calls received through internet (VoIP) illegally to domestic mobile and wireline customers in India. Illegal telecom setups primarily use internet connectivity on one side and connect to domestic mobile and landline network for distribution of call which is not allowed as per regulations. Such illegal setups pose […]

Archaeological Survey of India unravels remarkable remains in Bandhavgarh Forest Reserve – Photos [Must see]

Archaeological Survey of India unravels remarkable remains in Bandhavgarh Forest Reserve – Photos [Must see]

In a major find, ASI has unraveled remarkable archaeological remains in Madhya Pradesh’s Bandhavgarh Forest Reserve. During the exploration conducted by ASI, 26 ancient temples/relics of Kalachuri period (9th century CE to 11th Century CE), 26 caves (2nd Century CE to 5th century CE mostly Buddhist in nature), 2 monasteries, 2 stupas, 24 Brahmi inscriptions (2nd century CE to 5th century CE), […]

Vice President flags off Jaipur Foot team to Syria to provide artificial limbs to amputees

Vice President flags off Jaipur Foot team to Syria to provide artificial limbs to amputees

‘Nothing is more religious than serving the people in need’ says Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar. Dhankhar lauds the efforts of Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) for their untiring efforts, Says, ‘BMVSS’ service for humanity reflects India’s civilisational ethos of sharing and caring’. The Vice President, Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar today said that “there is nothing […]

Celebrate ‘International Observe the Moon Night’ with NASA [Details]

Celebrate ‘International Observe the Moon Night’ with NASA [Details]

The public is invited to participate in NASA’s celebration of “International Observe the Moon Night” on Saturday, Oct. 1. This annual, worldwide public engagement event takes place when the Moon is close to first quarter – a great phase for evening observing.  Last year about 500,000 people participated from 122 countries and all seven continents. This celebration […]

Coffee drinking is associated with increased longevity, lower risk of cardiovascular disease

Coffee drinking is associated with increased longevity, lower risk of cardiovascular disease

Drinking two to three cups of coffee a day is linked with a longer lifespan and lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared with avoiding coffee, according to research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the ESC.1 The findings applied to ground, instant and decaffeinated varieties. “In this large, observational study, ground, instant […]

Voice control smart devices might hinder children’s social, emotional development: Study

Voice control smart devices might hinder children’s social, emotional development: Study

Voice control smart devices, such as Alexa, Siri, and Google Home, might hinder children’s social and emotional development, argues an expert in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare, in a viewpoint published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. These devices might have long term effects by impeding children’s critical thinking, […]

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