Narendra Modi | (Photo: Shutterstock) 3 min read Last Updated : Sep 22 2024 | 3:59 PM IST India has announced a new initiative to award fifty Quad scholarships, worth $500,000, to students from the Indo-Pacific. These scholarships will enable students to pursue a four-year undergraduate engineering programme at a Government of India-funded … Read more
Home Entertainment Indian Ocean Band’s Members React After Co-Founder Sushmit Sen Files Police Complaint Against Them: ‘We Are Saddened to Learn…’ Former members of Indian Ocean band Susmit Sen and Sunita Chakravarty, the widow of Ashim Chakravarty, the band’s co-founder, have allegedly lodged a police complaint against Rahul Ram and Amit Kilam. The Indian Ocean’s … Read more
New Delhi: India is considering setting up an underwater biodiversity research lab to study the different kinds of flora and fauna on the seabed, and at varying depths, to explore their potential for human consumption. The lab, part of the government’s long-term vision of making India a developed nation by 2047, is being conceptualized under … Read more
Saturday, June 8, is World Oceans Day. Communities around the world gather on this date each year to participate in activities designed to raise awareness about what the oceans do for the Earth and what humans are doing to the oceans. The goal of the day is to deliver information that will mobilize the public … Read more
Hot on the heels of the successful crewed launch of Boeing’s new CST-100 Starliner on Wednesday, we have another rocket launch: This time it’s SpaceX’s massive Starship. This is the fourth test flight of the rocket — which will be uncrewed — that SpaceX founder Elon Musk hopes will one day take astronauts to Mars. The 120-minute … Read more
On Tuesday, India introduced four crew members for its maiden Gaganyaan space voyage, as it aims to become the world’s fourth country to send a crewed mission into space, just months after a historic landing on the south pole of the moon. Gaganyaan, or “sky craft” in Hindi, is the first mission of its kind for … Read more
NEW DELHI: Scientists have developed a synthetic human antibody that can neutralise a deadly toxin produced by a variety of snakes. The study, published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, adapted an approach used earlier to screen for antibodies against HIV and COVID-19 in order to synthesise the new venom-neutralising antibody.“This is the first time … Read more
“There are now new technologies that can pinpoint new positions. I think they are all worth a try,” he said. But Song Chunjie, a relative of another victim, said it was useless for individual experts to call for a search. “Launching a new search should be led by the Malaysian government, because it would cost … Read more
A drone strike on Saturday, December 23, damaged an Israeli-affiliated merchant ship in the Indian Ocean but no casualties were reported. The attack resulted in a fire on Liberia-flagged tanker occurring 200 km southwest of Gujarat’s Veraval, India, according to UKMTO, the British military’s maritime trade operations. “UKMTO have received a report of an attack … Read more
