Search Results for: ural areas

Do black holes die? Life and death of the most powerful forces in the cosmos

Black holes are not the scary space vacuum cleaners that suck up all matter around them - they are dying stars that have immeasurable amounts of gravity and will all eventually die out.

May 25, 2018

Cyclone Mekunu to make 'severe' landfall in Oman, heavy rains likely in Maharashtra and Goa

Cyclone Mekunu is likely to be "extremely severe" when it makes a landfall near Salalah in Oman early Saturday, May 26, and residents have been alerted of the same. Low-lying regions have been sand-bagged and rescue helicopters were sent to remote areas to airlift residents.

May 25, 2018

India's rank in global competitiveness improves – by one notch; USA returns to top spot

IMD World Competitiveness Center's global competitive rankings are based on various parameters in diverse areas. India, which slipped to 45th rank in 2017, has now climbed to 44th rank. A total of 63 countries were assessed.

May 24, 2018

What is the Vedanta Sterlite issue? 9 dead in Tuticorin mass protest

As per Madras High Court orders, the police imposed section 144 of CrPC around the Sterlite unit. The agitators raising slogans pelted stones at the cops and toppled the police vehicles.

May 22, 2018

Pakistan used thermal camouflage suits to deceive Indian troops along border: Reports

As the Indian Army uses 'Hand Held Thermal Imagers' (HHTI) to monitor the movements of the enemy forces, the Pakistani Rangers' new tactic has made Indian troops vulnerable to getting hit as it becomes difficult to observe the presence of the enemy closely.

May 22, 2018

Amid recorded music controversy, check out best 5 live acts in Delhi

Manish Sisodia pulled up the excise officers for "creating confusion" by issuing the May 16 order which stated that "only live singing and playing of instruments" are allowed in restro-bars.

May 22, 2018

Was India once an alien hotspot? 10,000-year-old rock paintings say so

The drawings were apparently drawn 10,000 years ago when space travel was not even in the distant dream of human beings.

May 22, 2018

Humans account for 0.1% of life on Earth, but have eradicated most other living things

A new assessment of all life on the planet has estimated that the 7.6 billion people on Earth make up for a mere 0.01%, but since the beginning of civilisation, humans alone have wiped out about 83 percent of all mammals in the wild and about half the plant species that ever existed.

May 22, 2018

Delhi pubs ordered to stop playing recorded music

The move is likely to lead to a tussle between the local government and more than 1,000 bars, worried about their survival.

May 21, 2018

Mahesh Babu with the members of NRI SEVA Foundation

Bharat Ane Nenu actor Mahesh Babu sponsors free sports rehab centre

Bharat Ane Nenu actor Mahesh Babu and his wife Namrata Shirodkar are helping the NRI SEVA Foundation by sponsoring a "free sports rehab centre".

May 21, 2018

China air force lands bombers on South China Sea island

China says its military facilities in the Spratly islands are purely defensive, and that it can do what it likes on its own territory.

May 20, 2018

PM Modi in J&K: Internet suspended, schools closed

Separatists leaders, including Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, have been placed under house arrest while Yasin Malik has been taken into preventive custody.

May 19, 2018

NASA study shows freshwater decline in India

The first-of-its-kind study used 14 years of observations from the US/German-led Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) spacecraft mission to track global trends in freshwater in 34 regions around the world.

May 18, 2018

Security beefed up ahead of PM Modi's two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir

Extra security forces along with the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Indian army personnel have been deployed in various parts of the state. The prime minister's visit is scheduled just two days after the government announced a ceasefire during the month of Ramadan.

May 18, 2018

Excessive human activity found to degrade one third of the world's protected areas

Conservation efforts of several countries in Asia, Europe, and Africa seem to be under immense pressure due to persistent human activity that poses a severe threat to the land.

May 18, 2018

Prev 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 Next

Search Results for: ural areas

Do black holes die? Life and death of the most powerful forces in the cosmos

Cyclone Mekunu to make 'severe' landfall in Oman, heavy rains likely in Maharashtra and Goa

India's rank in global competitiveness improves – by one notch; USA returns to top spot

What is the Vedanta Sterlite issue? 9 dead in Tuticorin mass protest

Pakistan used thermal camouflage suits to deceive Indian troops along border: Reports

Amid recorded music controversy, check out best 5 live acts in Delhi

Was India once an alien hotspot? 10,000-year-old rock paintings say so

Humans account for 0.1% of life on Earth, but have eradicated most other living things

Delhi pubs ordered to stop playing recorded music

Bharat Ane Nenu actor Mahesh Babu sponsors free sports rehab centre

China air force lands bombers on South China Sea island

PM Modi in J&K: Internet suspended, schools closed

NASA study shows freshwater decline in India

Security beefed up ahead of PM Modi's two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir

Excessive human activity found to degrade one third of the world's protected areas

Time for India to follow suit? France, Germany, Netherlands, US banned use of EVMs [here's why]

Dhanush's Captain Miller has no buyers in Telugu states? Here's why

Deepika Padukone is a sight to behold in velvet gown; attends Academy Museum Gala with Selena Gomez, Dua Lip [see pics]