JAMMU: The J&K administration Friday suspended mobile internet services in Doda district till further orders and deployed a large security contingent in Bhaderwah town, where tensions flared up after a 30-year-old man was shot dead around Thursday midnight following a run-in with the state police’s Special Operations Group (SOG) in a cattle smuggling stakeout.Three SOG…
Valery Legasov was the Soviet scientist who exposed the failures behind the Chernobyl disaster and became a symbol of truth, accountability, and scientific integrity A technician inside a nuclear control room looks at a radiation meter that reads exactly 3.6 Roentgen (Unit of measurement for gamma-ray exposure) per hour. Moments after the catastrophic explosion tore…
SRINAGAR: Politics is heating up in J&K ahead of NC’s proposed protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on July 20 over restoration of statehood, with Congress Friday announcing it would join the sit-in.BJP has planned a gherao of the secretariat in Srinagar on the same day to protest the NC govt’s “corruption, arbitrary governance,…
Just over three years since the biggest land-based pipeline spill in the United States in almost a decade, the company that manages the Keystone Pipeline System has reached an agreement with the U.S. government in a proposed settlement which calls for it to pay a $26.9 million civil penalty. This settlement comes after a pipeline…
BENGALURU: The Department of Space (DoS), which has tightened exit rules to stem a “spate of voluntary retirements and resignations” from scientists working on flagship missions, is grappling with a bigger challenge quietly building inside India’s space establishment: a growing manpower crunch.DoS employment data analysed by TOI shows nearly three out of every 10 sanctioned…
Removing four ageing hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River was always going to be a delicate undertaking, but one complication came from a source that had nothing to do with fish or river ecology at all: wildfire. The dams’ reservoirs had served for decades as a reliable water source for helicopters and fire crews battling…
Business quote of the day by Paypal founder Peter Thiel A successful business always has its USP. It must have something different than others even if there are plenty of competitors in the same area. Mere imitation of something successful does not give birth to another successful product. This appears to be very simple business…
JAMMU: A Jammu court Friday rejected the bail plea of Kamal Singh Jamwal, accused of attempting to assassinate National Conference president and former J&K CM Dr Farooq Abdullah earlier this year. The judge held that an attack on a public figure of Abdullah’s stature could not be viewed merely as a crime against an individual…
Rohit Sharma (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: The final ODI against England at Lord’s on Sunday may not be Rohit Sharma‘s last match for India after all. BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia on Saturday dismissed retirement speculation and reiterated that the senior opener remains firmly in India’s ODI plans.The clarification comes amid uncertainty over Rohit Sharma’s future…
A coral reef in the southern Andaman Sea, in Southeast Asia Cavan Images An international team of scientists has mapped more than 64,000 square miles of coral reefs that can withstand severe heat stress. The findings provide a vital plan for saving marine life while the world’s oceans experience their worst bleaching crisis ever recorded.The…