The Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KSO), established in 1899, has made significant contributions to understanding solar phenomena like sunspots, flares, and coronal mass ejections.
A Chennai event – featuring politicians, ecologists and Kodaikanal residents – detailed the rampant landscape changes that have damaged the Western Ghats’ delicate ecology.
The Observatory has a continuous daily record of the Sun, with more than 1.2 lakh digitised solar images and thousands of other images of the Sun recorded every day since the start of the 20th century.
The incident at Guna caves is a good story, but the real challenge for Chidambaram was finding the perfect team of technical wizards. 'We spent 70% of the budget on the crew,' he says.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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