23+ hour, 59+ min ago   (429+ words) Mumbai, Sep 13 (PTI) A collective of prominent scientists, academicians, and activists has urged the government to halt the E20 fuel rollout, scrap the National Testing Agency, and enact a nationwide anti-black magic law, calling for public policies to be guided by…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (516+ words) Kolkata, Sep 13 (PTI) The Himalayas face the threat of a cascading disaster, where a single high-altitude calamity can trigger avalanches, block rivers and unleash flash floods, rapidly magnifying destruction downstream — a danger laid bare by Nepal’s recent catastrophe, said a…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (763+ words) New Delhi: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on AI companies to slow the rate at which they advance model capabilities amid mounting fears of misuse of artificial intelligence, outlining a three-step framework intended to pace development and create more time…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (290+ words) That peculiarity has implications for how rival geopolitical powers should approach science. The Tang court worked this out long before Delhi or Beijing had cause to think about it again. In 718 CE Gautama Siddha, an astronomer of Indian descent born…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (411+ words) New Delhi, Sep 10 (PTI) Delhi, gearing up for the BRICS Summit on September 12 and 13, is likely to witness rain on both these days, with the IMD forecasting light to moderate rainfall in parts of the city, even as temperatures remained…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (472+ words) Just about two weeks ago, somewhere near Langtang Lirung peak in Nepal, a glacier collapsed. Within hours, a wall of water and debris tore through a 72-kilometre stretch of the Trishuli River, flattening the Gyirong border checkpoint and burying villages…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (443+ words) New Delhi: For its proposed constellation of 1,600 satellites, Reliance Jio has chosen an altitude of 650 km in low Earth orbit. This is likely to give their network the advantage of operating in a less-used orbital band, potentially easing coordination over…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (374+ words) New Delhi: A newly identified genus of “blonde” Australian plant bugs has been named after US singer Taylor Swift. Not just that, four of the insects in the category have been named after her albums. Four of these species belong…...