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Girl apparently raised by monkeys ‘rescued’ from UP forest
10 Apr 2017
The girl, aged between eight and 10, was rescued by the police in Bahraich from a troop of monkeys
Buckle up! Climate change to increase severe aircraft turbulence
07 Apr 2017
Turbulence strong enough to catapult unbuckled passengers and crew around the aircraft cabin could become twice or even three times as common because of climate change, reveals a new study
Environmental groups launch legal action against Trump administration over Keystone XL Pipeline
31 Mar 2017
Toll of climate change on mental health
30 Mar 2017
Green groups mount confident challenge against Trump rollbacks
30 Mar 2017
Environmental groups believe efforts to revive the American coal industry ultimately will fail because many states and industries already have been switching to renewable energy or natural gas
Maharashtra village records 46.5°C as heat wave sweeps India
30 Mar 2017
The weather office said it recorded 43 degree Celsius on Monday, but on Tuesday, the temperature was not recorded because it happened to be a holiday
California defies Trump; upholds own strict auto emissions standards
25 Mar 2017
In defiance of the Trump administration, California’s environmental regulator will continue to maintain the state's cleaner-car standards till 2025 and follow it up with formal efforts to tighten rules for the nest five years
Adopting Moore's law for carbon emissions would beat global warming
24 Mar 2017
A simple rule of thumb or "carbon law" of halving emissions every decade, based on Moore's Law in the computer industry, could catalyse disruptive innovation that could reduce fossil-fuel consumption
'Tree-on-a-chip' passively pumps water for days
22 Mar 2017
Growing global temperatures could be contributing to rising diabetic numbers
21 Mar 2017
1°C rise in environmental temperature could account for more than 100,000 new diabetes cases per year in the USA alone
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The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)
The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation