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.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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