| Read time: 3 minute(s)

Howdy Modi echoes in Texas

Prime Minister Modi and US President Donald Trump shared the stage at the ‘Howdy, Modi’ event in Houston on Sunday, 22 September. The two leaders addressed the Indians at the NRG Stadium in the presence of about 50,000 audience. It was a great show of strength for India in the US with President Trump on […]
| Read time: 2 minute(s)

Dr Drone’s on the way, folks

We all have been fascinated by those small autonomous planes buzzing over heads. Drones are mostly used for spying and surveillance but they sure are of much more help. If all goes as planned, drones would deliver medicines in cases of emergency in Maharashtra soon. The Devendra Fadnavis government has partnered with the US firm […]
| Read time: 2 minute(s)

Jupiter has a black hole!

New images shared by NASA’s Juno spacecraft show a massive black hole on the surface of Jupiter. Astrophysicists have been studying Black Holes for quite some time now. The pictures were taken after Juno’s orbit took it close to the gas giant planet. Juno was around 8,000 kilometres from the surface when its JunoCam took […]
| Read time: 3 minute(s)

Giant gummy bear-like creature found under ice

Do you like gummy bears? Of course, you do. Now what about a giant gummy bear? Yeah, much better no? Okay, now what about a living giant gummy bear? Not so hungry, are we? A team of scientists found a strange creature under 3400 metres of ice in Antarctica. Expedition Antarctica took to the waters […]
| Read time: 4 minute(s)

Who is Junko Tabei

Google keeps on livening up its search bar with various events from history. Last week Google celebrates the 80th birthday of Junko Tabei with its ‘seven summit’ doodle. But do you know who’s Junko Tabei? Junko Tabei was the first woman to stand on the summit of Mount Everest. She was the first woman to […]
| Read time: 4 minute(s)

F1: Vettel is back!

While Mercedes and Red Bull were the top contenders in Singapore hopeful of fighting for the spoils, it was the Prancing Horse that drove home the trophy. The four-time world champion ended his more than a year drought by winning at the Marina Bay. Sebastian Vettel is the man of the moment, and he’s enjoying […]
| Read time: 4 minute(s)

#HowDareYou ignore our future !

She’s become a global voice for environmental issues. The 16-year-old Swedish girl rocked the United Nations summit on Climate Change with her impassioned speech. Greta Thunberg confronted the world leaders by saying, “How dare you?” and condemned them for failing to take strong measures to combat climate change. “This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be […]
| Read time: 2 minute(s)

Indian wrestlers pull best-ever haul

India finished its run at World Wrestling Championship in Kazakhstan with its best-ever performance of five medals — one silver and four bronze. Rahul Aware won the bronze medal after defeating America’s Tyler Lee Graff by 11-4. Aware was fighting for the bronze medal after losing his semi-final bout to Georgia’s Beko Lomtadze by 6-10 […]
| Read time: 2 minute(s)

Watch: Beautiful octopus awes researchers

Deep-sea scientists are going gaga over a beautiful octopus seen in a new video from research vessel E/V Nautilus. The video released by the team on YouTube shows an octopus which seems like dancing. The team believes the octopus is part of the scientific family Cirroteuthidae, though they’re unsure of the exact species. Cirroteuthidae are […]
| Read time: 3 minute(s)

There’s water in Universe!

Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole. This black hole, called a quasar, is more than 12 billion light-years away. The discovery shows that […]