It was 1916 when Albert Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves, a ripple in space-time, in his general theory of relativity. Over a century later, scientists have for the first time detected one of the largest batches of these waves that passed through Earth. The 35 new detections of the ripples…
Four astronauts splashed down off the coast of Florida on Tuesday morning riding home with SpaceX to end a 200-day space station mission. The dragon spacecraft streaked through Earth’s upper atmosphere in the wee hours leaving behind a meteor trail before parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico. Onboard the Crew…
The Forensic Science Laboratory on Tuesday, November 9, confirmed that shots had been fired from the licensed guns of accused Ankit Das and Ashish Misra during the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on October 3. The Lakhimpur police had seized Ankit Das’s repeater and pistol and Ashish Mishra’s rifle and revolver.…
The Karnataka government decided to rename the Mumbai-Karnataka region comprising seven districts as ‘Kittur Karnataka’. The announcement comes a week after Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that the Mumbai-Karnataka region will be renamed as there is no point in retaining the old name when border…
The Winter session of Parliament will be held from November 29 till December 23. The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA), which met on Monday, has approved these dates and sent a recommendation to the President to call the session. The 25 day-long session will have 19 sittings and will be held with all…
After Maharashtra government promised the Koregaon Bhima commission a bigger venue to hold its proceedings, the panel has finally released the schedule for their hearing, which is set to begin from November 15. The two-member commission headed by retired justice J N Patel was formed by the Maharashtra government for…
After a gap of over six years, rain pounded Chennai and parts of Tamil Nadu on Sunday and is likely to continue till November 11 as the Indian Meteorological Department issued an alert. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has deployed teams in three regions to help in rescue and relief operations. “A…
As this year’s UN climate talks go into their second week, negotiations on key topics are inching forward. Boosted by a few high-profile announcements at the start of the meeting, delegates are upbeat about the prospects for tangible progress in the fight against global warming. Laurent Fabius, the former French…
Four astronauts will undock from the International Space Station on Monday to return to Earth completing the Crew-2 mission launched earlier this year. The SpaceX Dragon capsule will detach from the flying outpost at 7.05 UTC (5.35 PM IST) and splashdown off the coast of Florida nearly eight hours later. Nasa and…
Over 10 days after the Hubble Space Telescope went dark in space and suspended science operations, engineers are trying to isolate the problem to get the flying observatory out of safe mode. The spacecraft remains in safe mode since October 25 after it glitched beyond Earth’s orbit for the second time within six…