How Food Was Stored Before Modern Kitchens Changed EverythingLong before modern refrigerators, ancient humans mastered food preservation. They used sun, salt, cold, and microbes to store food for surv...
01 Apr, 2026, 05.44 PM IST
Kerala’s brain-eating amoeba that enters through nose has 97% fatality rate; only 20 survived globally till dateKerala is facing a significant outbreak of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri....
19 Sep, 2025, 02.52 PM IST
Aral Sea is disappearing — it is unleashing a toxic dust storm crisis across Central AsiaNew research shows the dried Aral Sea region is rising due to Earth’s mantle, adjusting to lose water weight. The man-made environmental di...
17 Apr, 2025, 11.32 PM IST
Wildlife in the city that never sleeps: From ducks to white horses - New York's beastly talesNew York City, often seen as an urban jungle, is filled with stories of wildlife. From the fate of Central Park lagoon ducks to the white h...
15 Feb, 2025, 09.51 PM IST
Dubai to soon have world's largest wellness retreat with botanical gardens hanging in the air; Here's full planDubai's Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed announced a groundbreaking wellness project, Therme Dubai – Islands in the Sky, set in Zabe...
09 Feb, 2025, 08.52 PM IST
Bengaluru's water crisis is set to deepen as K'taka struggles with depleting resources, businesses hitKarnataka, particularly Bengaluru, is grappling with a severe water crisis, exacerbated by erratic monsoon patterns and rapid urbanization....
11 Apr, 2024, 12.46 PM IST
DryLuru: India’s Silicon Valley either looking up at the skies or awaiting tankers for waterIndia’s technology city is either looking up at the skies or awaiting tankers for water. Since Cauvery alone cannot fulfill Bengaluru’s wat...
21 Mar, 2024, 09.03 PM IST
Kakhovka: A strategic dam in Russian-occupied UkraineThe dam on the Dnipro River is a strategic water source for the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, and flooding could potentially block Ukr...
07 Jun, 2023, 12.56 PM IST
How floating solar panels are being used to power electric gridsIn nearly a dozen countries around the world, floating solar farms are providing a welcome alternative to ground-mounted modules, with the ...
07 Mar, 2023, 08.04 PM IST
Tulips: A bulb that lights up the outdoorsThe credit for the bumper tulip 'crop' in key parts of the national capital this year definitely goes to the indefatigable maalis (gardener...
19 Feb, 2022, 12.09 AM IST
A Bitcoin boom fueled by cheap power, empty plants and few rulesSoaring Bitcoin values may be the investment talk of Wall Street, but a few hours north, in upstate New York, the buzz is about companies t...
06 Dec, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
India-China military talks continue, Pangong Tso remains point of contentionSources said that the disengagement process has been stalled due to the hard position taken and there has been no further cooling down of t...
03 Aug, 2020, 07.12 AM IST
Maithri Aquatech’s water generators just need air to produce freshwaterThis Hyderabad-based startup has developed an atmospheric water generator that can be the panacea to our water scarcity woes.
14 Dec, 2019, 12.42 PM IST
Bengaluru: A land of million aspirationsCreaky infrastructure notwithstanding, garden city’s pleasant climate has always been an abiding attraction for immigrants from far and wide
05 Feb, 2018, 10.02 AM IST
O Paneerselvam's first challenge as chief minister: Tamil Nadu's water crisisThis, precisely, is the first big challenge that the new CM, O Panneerselvam, has to tackle, following the demise of Jayalalithaa.
11 Dec, 2016, 01.05 AM IST
At Infosys, per capita water use down by 41 per centIn a place like Bengaluru with annual rainfall of about 900 mm, it is possible to meet the entire water requirement for a four-member famil...
31 Jul, 2016, 01.24 PM IST
- PE giant Warburg drops WNS exit plan for now
Private equity giant Warburg Pincus has halted its exit plans from NYSE-listed WNS Holdings, following a tepid response from potential acqu...
19 Sep, 2009, 01.20 AM IST