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India joins elite missile club: DRDO’s Ramjet technology explained and why it’s a major win for Indian defenceRamjet missile: India has achieved a significant milestone in missile technology. The Defence Research and Development Organisation success...
Chinese 'Alchemist' extracts 191g gold worth ₹28 lakh from old sim cards and e-waste. Here's how he turned junk into millionsA viral video by Qiao, a professional refiner in Guangdong, China, shows him extracting 191g of gold worth ₹28 lakhs from two tonnes of e-w...
Explosion at US Steel plant in Pennsylvania leaves 2 dead, 10 injuredAn explosion at a U.S. Steel plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, resulted in two fatalities and multiple injuries, prompting a large emergency...
Behind the barriers: Myths and mysteries of 10 forbidden places on EarthThe world holds many mysterious places. These locations are inaccessible due to danger, secrecy, or preservation. Svalbard Global Seed Vaul...
How one American inventor unknowingly unleashed two of the planet’s greatest environmental disastersThomas Midgley Jr. revolutionized the 20th century with inventions like leaded petrol and CFCs, solving industrial challenges of his time. ...
India's workers are trapped in a vicious cycle of coal and heatContinued reliance on the dirtiest fossil fuel means the world’s most populous nation is making its climate troubles worse.
Cigarette butts recycled to make soft toys. This Noida firm offers the perfect example of sustainabilityThe company has recycled cigarette butts into various products in the last four years.
Baldwin was told gun was 'cold' before movie set shootingThe tragedy came nearly three decades after Brandon Lee, the son of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, died in a similar case, and it prompted ...
Is climate change to blame for the recent weather disasters? 2 things you need to understandFirst, humans have pumped so much carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that what's "normal" has shi...
Is climate change to blame for the recent weather disasters? 2 things you need to understand
High levels of black carbon & Ozone due to forest fires turn Uttarakhand’s air lethalBy Friday, black carbon levels had gone from about 1,000-2,000 microgram per cubic metre last month, before the fires started, to 10,000-12...
Fact-checking Trump and Biden’s first presidential debateTrump has predicted there will be widespread fraud, especially with mail-in ballots. But, voter fraud is extremely rare. One study found 31...
Bacteria that can degrade pesticide linked to Bhopal Gas tragedyThe bacteria uses the pesticide as food. The researchers speculate that the genes that allow the bacteria to breaking down carbaryl may hav...
Terrorists 'shelf life' reduced in Kashmir with over 360 killed in two years: CRPF DGBhatnagar said keeping in mind the security challenges, the CRPF has "increased the protection level" of its troops operating in Jammu and ...
Air pollution: Firecracker ban puts lid on toxic brew, a step in right directionThe ban is an intervention that makes much more sense than steps such as the temporary ban on diesel vehicles, the odd-even scheme, environ...
Low wages a bane for gems and jewellery industry: ReportUnorganised players not known to use cutting-edge technology and high-quality materials in the manufacturing process, also pull down the in...
Lethal gases from Jharia's coalfields fire continue to wreck havoc a century laterDumpers belonging to a private company that operates this particular mine ply nonstop, going deep around the spiral and then coming up agai...
10 things you still need to know about air pollutionThree of the five agencies that studied the impact of the odd-even trial on Delhi's air quality suggest that fewer cars on the roads had he...
Former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson, wanted in Bhopal gas tragedy, dies at 92His death revived memories of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy. He died on September 29 at a nursing home in Vero Beach, Florida.
- Like Bhopal, Fukushima may haunt future
The spectre of lethal radioactive fallout from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima in Japan continued to haunt the country as ripples...