Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, set to be conferred with France’s highest civilian award Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur. The French government is honouring him for his writings and speeches and the French Ambassador here Emmanuel Lenain has written to …
A series of ‘rarely observed’ radio wave-emitting objects have been spotted by scientists in the middle of a galaxy cluster located 800 million light-years away from us, scientists have said. The objects include “a fossil radio emission, a radio relic …
Scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel have created the world’s first ‘synthetic embryos’ without using eggs, sperm or fertilisation. The embryos were assembled in a lab by collecting stem cells from mice and placing them in a special incubator …
The Chilika Lake, Asia’s largest brackish water lagoon, has 176 fishing cats, according to a census done by the Chilika Development Authority (CDA) in collaboration with the Fishing Cat Project (TFCP). This is the world’s first population estimation of the …
As part of the ongoing India Bangladesh bilateral defence cooperation, a joint military training exercise Ex SAMPRITI-X is being conducted at Jashore Military Station in Bangladesh from 05 June to 16 June 2022. Exercise SAMPRITI is an important bilateral defence …
Three of every four river monitoring stations in India posted alarming levels of heavy toxic metals such as lead, iron, nickel, cadmium, arsenic, chromium and copper, according to the State of Environment Report, 2022 from the environmental NGO, the Centre …
Three Chinese astronauts docked at the country’s space station, marking a new milestone in Beijing’s drive to become a major space power. The trio blasted off in a Long March-2F rocket at 0814 IMT from the Jiuquan launch centre in …
Indian Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu, recently visited Senegal and three MoUs were signed by both sides. This was the first ever high level Indian visit to Senegal and took place at a time when both countries are celebrating 60 …
Gujarat villagers (of Ganasar village) turn farm into artificial wetland to save Saras crane eggs. The sarus crane (Antigone antigone) is a large non-migratory crane. It is found in open wetlands in South Asia, seasonally flooded Dipterocarpus forests in Southeast …
