A rain holiday has been declared for schools and colleges in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai, Tiruvallur, Cuddalore, Villupuram, and Kancheepuram districts on Friday, December 9. Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department predicted that cyclone Mandous is likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm on Thursday…
Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) is India’s first fully robotic optical research telescope developed jointly by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. The primary research focus of this telescope is time-domain astronomy: the study of…
Nasa’s Artemins I Orion spacecraft, which was launched on November 16, has left lunar orbit to head back to Earth on Thursday. The spacecraft has been in distant retrograde around the Moon since November 25. Meanwhile, NASA has been putting the vehicle’s various systems through their paces as the US space…
Realme has finally unveiled the Realme 10 series in India. The series include the Realme 10 Pro and the Realme 10 Pro Plus. The new series comes with a lot of firsts including curved display, 108-megapixel camera sensors. The Realme 10 Pro Plus is the first ever device in the mid-range segment to feature a curved…
As many Chinese embraced new found freedoms on Thursday after the country dropped key parts of its tough zero-COVID regime, some cities warned residents to maintain vigilance against a virus that, until now, has been largely kept in check. Three years into the pandemic, many in China had been itching for Beijing to…
A transwoman teacher was allegedly expelled from a school in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri because of her identity. The National Commission for Women has taken cognizance of the matter and the chairperson, Rekha Sharma wrote to the state’s chief secretary seeking an independent inquiry into the matter. She also…
The Border Security Force (BSF) troops on Thursday recovered 8 packets of heroin weighing 2.6 kg along with arms and ammunition along the Indo-Pak border in Punjab’s Ferozepur district. Contraband, a pistol, along with a magazine and six live cartridges were recovered. While patrolling along the border fence,…
On Wednesday Puducherry Chief Minister N Rangasamy held a meeting to discuss the preparatory steps taken in view of the cyclonic storm Mandous. Heavy rainfall is expected due to cyclonic storm Mandous in Puducherry and Karaikal . The exigencies plan has been reviewed. On Thursday due to the…