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A planet being eaten up, another blacker than coal — bizarre finds in quest for 2nd Earth

Since the first exoplanet discovery in the 1990s, scientists have found a bunch of extreme worlds around different stars in the Milky Way.

World’s most-isolated city catches NASA’s attention as it hunts for innovative tech

NASA has loaned engineers in Perth its Robonaut technology to explore ways to make tasks safer and more efficient on offshore oil and gas platforms.

India’s biofuel policy doesn’t address emission of toxic nanoparticles, says new study

Study by TERI & Finnish researchers say process of producing biofuels may increase nanoparticles in the air, which can be more harmful than PM2.5 & PM10.

AIIMS and ICMR working on developing ‘virtual autopsy’ technique, Harsh Vardhan says

The medical institutes are working on a technique that allows doctors to conduct postmortems without dissecting the body.

Aided by Indian techie, NASA finds crashed Vikram lander on the Moon

NASA has acknowledged it was able to identify the impact site and debris of Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander after a tip from Chennai-based engineer Shanmuga Subramanian.

Dead coral reefs could be revived by playing sounds of healthy reefs, finds study

The research, published in Nature Communications, says playing sounds of healthy reefs lure fish — which are extremely important for coral reefs to function — back to dead reefs.

These forgotten women played a huge role in eradicating smallpox from India

These women had to prove themselves in the hyper-masculine world of international public health.

IndiGen project — how mapping of genomes could transform India’s healthcare

As part of the project, CSIR announced sequencing of 1,008 genomes. The initiative aims to complete sequencing of at least 10,000 genomes over the next 3 years.

‘State of planetary emergency’: Global climate tipping points seen in fresh warning

Scientists lay out 9 crucial tipping points to suggest that the Earth is dangerously close to passing into irreversible planetary damage.

Cartosat-3 in space — here is how ISRO can now exploit its full potential

Cartosat-3, a third-generation advanced high-resolution imaging satellite, is the most advanced imaging spacecraft India has flown so far.

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Indian industry in Bangladesh is staring at a void. New Delhi must give line of credit to Dhaka

For New Delhi, SAFTA and CEPA will be critical. Such frameworks could institutionalise economic ties with Bangladesh, making them resilient to political disruptions.


Even as SEBI lays down new curbs on F&O market, discount brokerages are changing business models

SEBI Tuesday unveiled rules to curtail retail participation in derivatives market. Options premia to be collected upfront from options buyer effective 1 Feb 2025.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?