The Indian physicist who discovered how stars live and die while on a ship voyage

The Indian physicist who discovered how stars live and die while on a ship voyage

It was a cosmic conundrum that had left the world's foremost physicist puzzled, while a leading astronomer's efforts to help him complicated matters further, but this teenage Indian student, using just pen and paper, devised a solution to the issue while sailing to the UK in 1930 to take up a scholarship to study physics. Oct 19, 2024
India surpasses China to become largest two-wheeler market globally

India Overtakes China in Global Two-Wheeler Market

India has made a significant stride in the global automotive industry by surpassing China to become the world's largest two-wheeler market. This shift is primarily attributed to an increase in demand from rural areas, which has been bolstered by favourable monsoon conditions and government initiatives aimed at rural development. Oct 18, 2024
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NCP to give 10 pc tickets from its quota to Muslim community in Assembly polls: Ajit Pawar

Amid a raging controversy over Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis' statement on "love jihad" and "vote jihad," the NCP National President and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday announced that his party would give 10 per cent seats from its quota to Muslim community members in the upcoming Assembly elections. Oct 3, 2024
Indian astronomers map differential rotation of Sun's chromosphere

Indian astronomers map differential rotation of Sun's chromosphere

Using 100 years of daily records of the Sun at the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of DST, have succeeded in mapping, for the very first time, the variation in the rotation speed of the Sun's chromosphere -- from the equator right up to its polar regions. Sep 25, 2024