Epic CEO, Tim Sweeney, has called Google “crazy” and urged that “Apple must be stopped.” If you are wondering why the boss of the company that is behind Fortnite is lashing out at Google and Apple, it is about the duopoly that they have in the mobile phone app distribution market. Sweeney said…
AJudicial Magistrate’s court in Betul district of Madhya Pradesh has directed the police to register a case against BJP leader Vikas Mishra for allegedly creating a fake Facebook ID and posting defamatory and objectionable material against congress MLA Nilay Daga from it. The order has been passed by judicial…
Prabir Ghosal, former Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA who had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the run-up to the West Bengal Assembly elections 2021, wrote an article in TMC mouthpiece Jago Bangla criticising the BJP. In the article titled ‘KENO BJP KORA JAE NA’ (Why one can’t work in BJP?),…
Former Odisha MLA Umesh Chandra Swain died of cardiac arrest at his residence here on Wednesday, family sources said. He was 74. The last rites of the four-time legislator will be performed at his native Machhagaon village in Jagatsinghpur district, they said. He was elected to the Odisha Legislative Assembly from…
It was Edwin Hubble who in 1929 proposed that the universe was expanding and galaxies moving farther away from us. This laid the groundwork for understanding the origins of our universe and its evolution, Indian researchers have now measured a significantly improved estimate of the expansion rate of the Universe,…
Indian astronomers have discovered a planet that is bigger than Jupiter and is orbiting too close to a star in its system. The exoplanet is dubbed TOI 1789b, orbiting an ageing star that is 1.5 times that of our Sun and located 725 light-years away. The discovery was done by the exoplanet search and study group at the…
In major cooperation between China and Russia, the two countries inaugurated a joint space weather centre in Beijing “to enhance meteorological services for international civil aviation,” China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said. Built and operated by CMA, the Civil Aviation Administration of China…
Russia’s test on Monday to blow up one of its own satellites in space has drawn criticism for endangering the crew of the International Space Station and, experts say, created a debris field that has increased risks to space activities for years. WHAT IS SPACE DEBRIS AND WHERE DOES IT COME FROM? Space debris,…
Ascreening test using tiny worms to detect early signs of pancreatic cancer in urine has been developed by a Japanese biotech firm, which hopes it could help boost routine screening. Scientists have long known that the bodily fluids of cancer patients smell different to those of healthy people, with dogs trained to…
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been appointed as the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Committee, the ICC announced on Wednesday. Ganguly, the former India captain, replaces long-time former international team mate Anil Kumble…