PRAYAGRAJ: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday took a swipe at the previous Samajwadi Party government, saying that before 2017, the state faced not only a shortage of resources but also issues related to governance, transparency, accountability, law and order, and judicial infrastructure.Additionally, the chief minister revealed plans to provide tablets to 400 state law…
Quote of the day by Isaac Newton (Image source: Wikipedia) Isaac Newton’s quote captures a genuinely striking contrast between the predictability of nature and the real complexity of human behaviour. “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people,” he is said to have remarked. Newton devoted much of his…
File photo: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday reviewed the functioning of the CM Helpline 1905 at the Secretariat and directed officials to ensure the swift, time-bound and satisfactory resolution of public grievances.The chief minister said that the CM Helpline is an important mechanism for addressing the…
Donald Trump Jr’s wife Bettina issued a statement on ProPublica report that their Bahamas wedding was funded by a Russian oligarch. After ProPublica reported that Donald Trump Jr’s Bahamas wedding with Bettina Anderson was funded by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, Bettina put out a long post on Instagram clearing the air. She said there is…
Train movement produces vibrations along railway tracks, much of which is normally lost to the surrounding environment. Researchers have developed a system that captures some of this wasted energy from heavy-duty freight railway tracks and converts it into electricity. The study, published in ‘Applied Energy‘, describes a vibration energy harvesting system that uses the irregular…
Bhagwant Mann said his government adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards gangsters Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday said his government adopted a zero-tolerance policy towards gangsters, extortionists, drug traffickers and organised criminal networks, irrespective of how powerful or well-connected they may claim to be.He further asserted that law and order is fully maintained in…
An 852-acre family estate in Maury County, Tennessee, has been placed under permanent conservation, nearly three decades after a brother and sister began turning hundreds of acres of former farmland back into forest. According to The Land Trust for Tennessee, the property, known as the Sugg Property, was transferred directly to the organisation after original…
The idea that a single person could move something as enormous as Earth sounds impossible at first. More than two thousand years ago, however, Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes used the image to demonstrate the extraordinary power of a simple mechanical principle. The statement “Give me a place to stand on, and I will move…
When Anderson Cooper bought a historic former fire patrol house in New York’s Greenwich Village for $4.3 million in 2010, the purchase raised concerns among local preservationists, according to contemporary reporting by DNAinfo and the Village Preservation Society. The four-storey building at 84 West 3rd Street had spent decades as a working Fire Patrol station,…
3 Italian passengers flew from Amritsar to Munich without immigration clearance NEW DELHI: The civil aviation ministry has issued a show-cause notice to Air India over alleged procedural lapses that allowed three Italian passengers to board a connecting flight from Delhi without completing immigration formalities earlier this month.The notice has been issued to Air India…