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First map of Saturn’s largest moon Titan revealed, shows features similar to Earth

The map, published by Nature Astronomy Monday, has six primary features on its surface — plains, labyrinth, hummocky, dunes, craters and lakes.

ISRO to launch Cartosat-3 with 13 commercial nano satellites from US on 25 November

This will be ISRO's 74th launch vehicle mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

Monsoon likely to get more extreme & unreliable due to global warming, predicts new study

Study looks at past geological periods when temperatures were higher than today to predict what the future has in store.

Meet Bala Iyer, theoretical physicist leading advanced gravitational-wave project for India

Bala Iyer, among the project leads for LIGO-India, says India could be a world leader in astrophysics 20 years from now.

Air pollution increases risk of brain cancer by 10 per cent, says new Canadian study

The study establishes a significant link between the newly-emerging threat of PM0.1 to an increase in brain cancer.

Nile river flowing on the same course for last 30 million years, claims study

The study provided new geographical evidence indicating that the river is 30 million years old, much older than the earlier estimate of 5 million years.

What is hydrogen fuel? Supreme Court’s solution to Delhi’s air pollution crisis

SC has asked govt to explore hydrogen fuel tech to find solution to Delhi's air crisis. Hydrogen is zero-emission fuel, but manufacturing the gas is quite polluting.

Lost tiny deer-like species sighted in Vietnamese wild again after 3 decades

Photographic evidence of the animal, known as Vietnam mouse-deer, has been captured for the first time since its last recorded sighting in 1990.

Why opening up science & encouraging communication is key to scientific progress

The theme of World Science Day this year — ‘Open Science, Leaving No One Behind’ — talks giving society greater access to research.

Discovery of water on moon: What India’s first Chandrayaan mission achieved a decade ago

Inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008, Chandrayaan-1 was instrumental in discovering water on the moon, and had a brief tiff with NASA over this.

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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?