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Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has announced that it is now optional for Sikh women to wear helmets in Chandigarh. The Union Territory administration of Chandigarh has been advised that for Sikh women riding a two wheeler or sitting pillion, it may be made optional to wear protective head gear, as per the extant […]
The Public Health Agency of Canada has announced that it is investigating the outbreak of salmonella infections in five provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Quebec. The source of outbreak is yet to be determined, although officials are investigating the role of cucumbers behind this outbreak as many people who became sick reported eating […]
University of Alberta (UA) paleontologists have helped identify the fossil of an ancient baby sea monster discovered in Kansas, United States. According to researchers, this fossil is about 85 million years old, and belongs to a newborn Tylosaurus that died shortly after its birth. At the time of its death, it had not developed the […]
After returning to the United States following last week’s aborted launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket, NASA astronaut Nick Hague shared the details of the incident to the Associated Press in an interview. The astronaut described what actually happened after failure of Soyuz rocket forced the capsule to fly away from the failing rocket at speeds […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Starts Asteroid Operations Campaign (Update: 24 August 2018) NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) was launched on September 8m 2016, and last week the probe captured the first glimpse of asteroid Bennu from a distance of about 1.4 million miles while beginning its final approach toward […]
Archeologists from the Indian Department of Archaeology have unearthed over 1,000 war rockets of 18th Century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan in India. These rockets are about 250–270 years’ old and were discovered from the silt of an abandoned well in a village named Nagara in Shivamogga region of Karnataka. The village is located about 385 […]
Researchers have unearthed 174-year-old fossils of a long-neck, plant-eating dinosaur in northwestern China’s Lingwu region. According to scientists, this dinosaur was a neosauropod—a member of the sauropods group of dinosaurs that were characterized by long necks and tails, small heads, and pillar-like legs. This latest discovery has forced researchers to rethink the history of long-necked […]
Lobbyists spent more than two billion dollars between 2000 and 2016 to influence climate-change-related legislation in the U.S. Congress, according to a new study carried out by the researchers from the Drexel University in the U.S. The analysis found that the fossil fuel companies, electrical utilities sector, and transport companies—which were likely to be hugely […]
France and Croatia have qualified for the World Cup Football 2018 final which will be played on Sunday, July 15, at 11 a.m. ET. In first semifinal, France – the pre-tournament favorite – beat Belgium to reserve a berth in the final. In second semifinal, Croatia proved doubters wrong to beat England 2-1 and move […]
NASA scientists and engineers working on NASA’s Mars InSight mission will start visiting cities in the Southern California region from June 29. NASA’s Mars InSight Roadshow will stop at different cities throughout quake-prone California and to help people understand how the robotic lander that Insight Missions is carrying will probe the deep interior the Red […]