As Taliban-ruled Afghanistan descends into an economic crisis, a proscribed practice has reared its ugly head in many parts of the country that of selling young girls into marriage. In recent months, many displaced Afghan families battling poverty and starvation have been forced to make the unpalatable choice of…
The BJP was leading in the Khandwa Lok Sabha constituency and three other Assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh as counting of votes for bypolls to the four seats was underway on Tuesday. The bypolls, necessitated due to the death of sitting MLAs and an MP, were held on October 30, and the counting of votes began…
Bonhomie and friendship were on full display at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart Boris Johnson. The hugs and freewheeling chat between the two leaders were enabled by ironing out the vaccine recognition issue that had become a sore point for…
Kargil war hero Brigadier (retd) Khushal Thakur of the BJP is leading with 1,855 votes over his nearest rival of the Congress, Pratibha Singh, in the Mandi parliamentary seat of Himachal Pradesh. Pratibha Singh is the wife of late chief minister Virbhadra Singh. Counting of votes for the recently held by-elections in…
Congress candidates Nagraj Meena and Preeti Shaktawat are leading in Dhariawad and Vallabhnagar Assembly constituencies of Rajasthan on Tuesday, according to available trends. Nagraj Meena is leading by a margin of 1,185 votes over BJP candidate Khet Singh Meena in Dhariawad. In Vallabhnagar, Shaktawat is ahead of…
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) was leading on Tuesday in all four assembly seats where bypolls were held on October 30, as per the initial trends. The counting of votes to Khardah, Santipur, Gosaba and Dinhata assembly constituencies began at 8 am amid tight security. After the first round of counting, the TMC was…
Objects hanging in the vacuum of the cosmos orbiting a star have been detected throughout the galaxy, these exoplanets have been a source of enhancing our understanding of the conditions beyond our solar system. Astronomers have now gone a step further and detected the first planet not just beyond the solar system but…
Fighting a highly competitive battle with SpaceX, Jeff Bezos led Blue Origin has plans to outpace Elon Musk with the development of a Space Station in low Earth orbit. Dubbed Orbital Reef, the company aims to use the outpost in microgravity to develop “an ecosystem and business model for the future.” The…
Atype of whale that is one of the rarest marine mammals in the world lost nearly 10% of its population last year, a group of scientists and ocean life advocates said on Monday. The North Atlantic right whale numbered only 366 in 2019, and its population fell to 336 in 2020, the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium…
Two weeks after it went into hibernation on Mars, the Perseverance rover is set to trundle again. With communications returning to normal between Mars and Earth, the rover is scoping the area as it remains parked between two outcrops. The rover is imaging the area and studying the weather as engineers chart its course…