2024 Lok Sabha Elections

Solar Eclipse: Prominent Temples Closed In Uttarakhand

The portals of almost all prominent temples in Uttarakhand including Kedarnath and Badrinath temples remained closed on account of a partial solar eclipse or Surya Grahan on Tuesday, October 25. In Haridwar, idols of temple deities were covered with cloth as priests and devotees recited mantras and sang bhajans between 4 am and 6 pm. Priests […]

LPU’s Modern Shield Can Save Hundreds Of School Kids Every Year

A staggering number of young lives are lost in school bus accidents in India due to reasons ranging from drunken driving to technical glitches. Hardly a day passes when we do not read reports about kids being killed in road accidents while being ferried to school. As many as 16 kids were killed in Andhra, 23 […]

Is Boston Varsity’s Lab-Made Lethal Covid Hybrid A Cause For Worry?

As soon as reports about the Boston University study on "chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the S 46 gene of Omicron" hit social media, it sent waves of fear. It reminded people of often-ridiculed conspiracy theories around “Wuhan virus” being a mode of biological warfare by China. But what is the truth about this study? 

‘Ancestors Of Some Nepalese Ethnic Groups Came From India, Burma, Tibet’

The maternal ancestry of Nepal is a mixture of South Asian and East Asian populations, as per an international study, which also said that some ethnic groups — especially Newar and Magar — derived their ancestry from Myanmar, Tibet, and India. A team, led by K Thangaraj, director of CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology […]

President Murmu Inaugurates Supercomputer Facility At IIT Guwahati

President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday inaugurated a supercomputer facility, ‘Param Kamrupa’ and a laboratory for the design and development of high-power microwave components at IIT Guwahati.