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 […]
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 […]
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?
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 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.