East Zone’s captain Ishan Kishan and Mohammed Shami (PTI Photo) At 36, Mohammed Shami may be closer to the twilight of his career than its peak, but his desire to return to India colours remains as strong as ever. That is the belief of East Zone captain Ishan Kishan, who has seen first-hand the veteran…
The unprecedented scale of Chinese military presence around the region has become a growing concern among officials (Photo: ANI). Taiwan experienced a significant increase in Chinese military activity around its territory on Saturday, with multiple Chinese aircraft and naval vessels around its territory.Taiwan’s ministry of national defence (MND) detected up to 20 sorties of various…
Winter on Mars is not simply a season of plunging temperatures and long polar nights. As the planet moves into winter, its atmosphere begins to change with it. Carbon dioxide, the dominant gas in the Martian atmosphere, can freeze directly onto the ground or fall as snow, building temporary polar caps that hold a substantial…
‘Mirzapur: The Movie’ box office collection Day 2 [LIVE]: Pankaj Tripathi, Ravi Kishan, and Ali Fazal starrer is set to cross Rs 45 crore on second day ‘Mirzapur: The Movie’ has hit theatres this Friday and has been earning good reviews, and the same is reflected in its box office. Starring Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal…
Opposition is also raising questions over the methodology of population enumeration, alleging that it too has a “deeper nefarious purpose” NEW DELHI: Although six years late, enumerators have started knocking on doors for the decennial headcount in Ladakh and snowbound regions such as Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand starting September 1.But doubts and…
When Hurricane Matthew struck Florida in October 2016, New Smyrna Beach faced winds of more than 90 miles per hour and water levels around four feet above normal. Along the coast, those conditions put shoreline protection to a serious test. But one demonstration site emerged with an unexpected result. A living shoreline project supported by…
A flock of White Storks. Image Credit: Society for Ecological Restoration(SER) White storks once formed a familiar part of the landscape in southern Sweden, but by 1954 the species had disappeared as a breeding bird from the country. Their decline was closely linked to dramatic changes in the countryside, where wetlands were drained and other…
Yasir was reportedly operating with a Lashkar-e-Taiba group led by commander Junai Ahmed Bhat. NEW DELHI: Lashkar terrorist Yasir, a Pakistani national linked to Hafiz Saeed‘s outift, was killed by security forces in the higher reaches of Yusmarg in central Kashmir, on Saturday.He was suspected of being involved in several major terror attacks in Jammu…
Visingsö Oak Forest. Image Credit: Atlas Obscura In the early 19th century, Sweden began an extraordinary project on the island of ‘Visingsö.’ Hundreds of thousands of oak trees were planted to secure timber for naval ships that would be built far in the future. Oak was strong, durable and widely valued for wooden shipbuilding, but…
In 2019, scientists at the University at Buffalo developed an electricity-free cooling system that uses a thin aluminium film coated with the polymer polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS, to send heat from its surroundings through the atmosphere and towards outer space. The approach, known as radiative cooling, was designed to overcome a key challenge: making passive cooling…