Everything You Wanted To Know About The First Ever Image of a Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope, or EHT, has imaged the silhouette or shadow of the black hole at the centre of M87, a galaxy 55 million light years from us.
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Author: The ID Staff
India Meteorological Dept Predicts ‘Near Normal’ South West Monsoon
Forecasts are prepared using a statistical ensemble forecasting system and a dynamical coupled ocean-atmosphere global climate forecasting system developed under the Monsoon Mission of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
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Scientists Develop Salt Tolerant Rice Variety
Indian scientists have developed a new salt-tolerant transgenic rice plant by over-expressing a gene from a wild rice.
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Not One But Three Readings In A Single Visit Must For Hypertension Diagnosis: Study
Blood Pressure & hypertension varies with breathing patterns, emotion, exercise, meals, temperature, pain, etc. and a single reading may be affected by those factors.
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A Peek Into The Secret Lives of Indian Spiders
Despite their widespread presence, Indian spiders are poorly studied and very few known records of their natural history exist.
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66 Civil Servants Sign Open Letter to President over “Weak-Kneed Response of Election Commission”
66 civil servants have urged President Ram Nath Kovind, along with the Chief Election Commissoner, to ensure the elections are conducted with independence, fairness, impartiality and efficiency.
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Vitamin deficiency widespread among healthy-looking urban Indians
The NIN, Hyderabad, found in a study that most healthy-looking Indians are vitamin-deficient.
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New technique can make flexible electronics self-repairing
With modern times, electronic appliances are expected to be compact as well as flexible. But often these flexible appliances are prone to breakage. Researchers form Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore & University of Cambridge have developed a technique to
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Gandhi: Fitness freak, champion of sustainable food and a pioneering vegan
Gandhi, a fitness freak, practiced naturopathy, professed balanced diets, regular physical activity and prevention of communicable diseases.
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Low soil-moisture posing threat in most river basins
According to an index based on data of rainfall and soil moisture from 1982-2010, two-thirds of the country’s total cropland has been found to be sensitive to vegetation drought, raising the concern for food security.
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Study finds gaps in conservation efforts of Asiatic wild dogs in Western Ghats
A team of scientists have estimated the dhole population and its occupancy pattern in 16 protected forest reserves and adjoining landscapes covering an area of 37,000 sq km in Karnataka portion of Western Ghats. They have found that there are 49 sites in the surveyed areas, which faced threats of local extinction of the animal.
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Class Action: Legal Sensitisation in Classrooms
The aim is to increase the students’ knowledge of the justice system, government, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship in a constitutional democracy.
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49 Civil Servants Sign Open Letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Over Kathua & Unnao Rape Cases
On the 15th of April, days after the rape of two minor girls in India, 49 retired civil servants penned an open letter to the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, expressing concern and anguish over the recent nightmarish cases of rape at Kathua and Unnao and our collective failure as human beings.
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A pest gene can help fight pesticide contamination in environment: study
Researchers from Pune University have isolated an enzyme from a pest and found that it can be used to clean up pesticide residues from food and the environment.
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India jumps to fourth place in computing capacity for weather forecasting
India today took a major step ahead by upgrading computing capacity in the area of weather forecasting and climate monitoring to 6.8 Petaflop.
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‘India’s steel industry is dominated by electric-based processes’: US Energy Information Administration
India is the third-largest steel producer in the world after China and Japan, having surpassed other countries such as the United States, Russia and South Korea
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Britain now generates twice as much electricity from wind energy as coal
Britain’s wind energy output increased by 14 terawatt-hours between 2016-17 (enough to power 4.5 million homes) and electricity was completely “coal free” for 613 hours last year
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Hinduism and its complicated history with cows (and people who eat them)
A deeper look at the beef ban, cow vigilantes, Hinduism, and Hindutva vigilantism. Cows have become in India a lightning rod for human cruelty, in the name of religion.
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Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Is Gone, But Scrutiny Will Continue
In an executive order on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump dissolved the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (Voter Fraud Commission).
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Forty percent of global e-waste comes from Asia
Humans generated 44.7 million tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) in 2016, expected to rise to 52.2 million tonnes by 2021. Asia accounts for more than 40 percent.
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