A recent study published in the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences has shown that, contrary to what people thought before, an individual's earnings and happiness have a deeper connection. | Continue reading
The officials of the fire department said there was no other inflammable item in the house that could have triggered the explosion | Continue reading
What should a median worker in India do for earning a decent living and which state offers them the best chance? | Continue reading
The bridge painted in the colours of a chessboard looks almost animated as a car rides past the route, giving a tour of the painted portion of the bridge. | Continue reading
A total fertility rate of 2.1 is considered as the replacement rate, which is a crucial factor in population growth. It ensures the replacement of a woman and her partner upon death with no overall increase or decrease in numbers | Continue reading
The European Space Agency’s website also showed land surface temperatures to be nearing 55 degrees Celsius over many parts of northwest India and crossing 60 degrees Celsius over several pockets. | Continue reading
In India, the number of people living in extreme poverty -- defined by the World Bank as living on US$1.9 or less in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms -- was 0.8% of the population in the pre-pandemic year 2019, stated the IMF paper, published on April 5, 2022. | Continue reading
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that a lot of consultation has taken place on the issue of cryptocurrencies in India, adding that the views of the Reserve Bank of India were also taken. "We have to be sure that a futuristic thing can’t be shut out," she added. | Continue reading
Twitter transparency report: India has emerged as the country that sent the second-highest number of takedown requests after Japan. | Continue reading
The Riemann Hypothesis is one of the biggest problems to confront mathematicians world over. It was declared a millennium problem in th year 2000. | Continue reading
What India needs is transformational, not incremental, changes. The Modi government is committed to the deregulation of the economy and ushering in systemic reforms | Continue reading
The company is also likely to be liable under the Information Technology Act and the provision of safe harbour in it is unlikely to be applicable to it due to the non-compliance, they added | Continue reading
Hubble has undergone a series of repairs and updates by spacewalking astronauts during Nasa's shuttle era. | Continue reading
Anand Singh is a programmer turned entrepreneur who has turned his strong and groundbreaking imagination to reality. | Continue reading
Residents said bodies were floating in the river in Panna district for four days, but the matter came to light on Tuesday after a video of the corpses went viral on social media | Continue reading
Senior officials of the Biden-Harris administration have detailed the comprehensive plan for Covid-19 support from the US that involves delivering raw materials, oxygen supplies, ventilators, therapeutics, Remdesivir, testing and protective equipment, and public health assistance … | Continue reading
India recorded the world's highest daily tally of 314,835 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday as a second wave of the pandemic raised new fears about the ability of crumbling health services to cope. | Continue reading
A video was widely shared on social media in which dozens of villagers were seen using shovels and other tools to dig ores on a mountain to extract gold. | Continue reading
The report titled “Freedom in the World 2021 - Democracy under Siege” said India “appears to have abandoned its potential to serve as a global democratic leader”. | Continue reading
Earlier this year on June 29, the government had blocked access to 59 mobile apps and 118 more apps on September 2 under section 69A of the Information Technology Act. | Continue reading
Protection in patients was achieved seven days after the second of two doses, and 28 days after the first, according to preliminary findings. | Continue reading
The complaint was filed by one Saurav Das who claimed to have approached the NIC, National E-Governance Division (NeGD) and the ministry of electronics and information technology seeking to know about the creation of the application. | Continue reading
Though the new measures -- aimed at freeing up farm trade from restrictions, at guaranteeing a legal framework for pre-agreed prices, and at laying down a new architecture for contract farming -- were hailed by economists, farmer groups fear that they will lead to exploitation by … | Continue reading
Minister for science and technology Fawad Chaudhry said the move will help Pakistan enter the billion-dollar Cannabidiol (CBD) market. | Continue reading
Mukund Mohan allegedly applied for eight loans to six companies through the Paycheck Protection Program, a federal stimulus designed to encourage small businesses to keep workers employed during the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
The National Security Council Secretariat has backed the recommendation to block or discourage use of 53 mobile apps | Continue reading
According to the findings of a case-control study published online in the ICMR’s Indian Journal of Medical Research (IJMR) on Sunday, consumption of four or more maintenance doses was associated with a significant decline in the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection among the study partic … | Continue reading
The German national, Edgard Ziebat, was on his way from Hanoi to Istanbul on March 18, the day India cancelled all flights to and from Turkey in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
Deepfake refers to media – audio or video – created using the artificial intelligence technique of deep learning. Such media can be entirely fictional and can range from portraying a person carrying out an activity they never did or speak words that they never spoke. | Continue reading
The contraceptive is effective for 13 years, after which it loses its potency. It is designed as a replacement for surgical vasectomy, which is the only male sterilisation method available in the world. | Continue reading
The job entails sleeping every night for nine hours, every week for 100 days | Continue reading
The contraceptive is effective for 13 years, after which it loses its potency. It is designed as a replacement for surgical vasectomy, which is the only male sterilisation method available in the world. | Continue reading
Mayor and his colleague Didier Queloz were on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their research refining techniques to detect so-called exoplanets. | Continue reading
Villagers in Jewar became millionaires overnight. But, most of them cannot figure out how to deal with their new found fortune. | Continue reading
Chandrayaan 2: Scientists lost contact with the Vikram lander at 1.53am in the early hours of Saturday,less than two minutes before it was supposed to make a soft landing on the moon’s surface. | Continue reading
People could work as little as three days a week, four hours a day with the help of technology advances, the Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder said at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai Thursday. | Continue reading
The business of issuing promissory notes that function as money is called banking. Libra is a banking venture dressed up in cryptography | Continue reading
Kargil Vijay Diwas 20th Anniversary: The Kargil report was submitted by a four-member committee, set up in the immediate aftermath of India’s announcement on July 26, 1999 that Pakistan had been evicted from Kargil. | Continue reading
India is planning to launch its own space station, ISRO chief K Sivan said Thursday. The ambitious project will be an extension of the Gaganyaan mission. | Continue reading
Breaking down challenges and opportunities for a company to build a smartphone without using technology from the US. Here’s how your smartphone may look like without the American technology. | Continue reading
Between 2017 and 2019, nearly hundred people from villages in Haryana officially died in road accidents. What actually happened to them is beyond imagination. | Continue reading
The user was left stunned to see a Facebook representative landing at his home for inquiring about just a post. | Continue reading
The justice department’s Michigan branch announced the arrest of the eight men, whose names indicated they were either Indians or American citizens of Indian descent, from all over the country, charged with visa fraud and harbouring aliens for profit | Continue reading
Every industry sector in India employs more men than women. Moreover, the gender gap among Indian professionals is worse than the global average in every sector. | Continue reading
The share of multilingual population and the dominant languages in the Indian states determine how many Indians can talk to and understand each other. | Continue reading
eBay launched in India 2004 but failed to capitalise on the country’s growing e-commerce market in the following years. Last year, the company sold its India unit to the local e-commerce giant Flipkart. | Continue reading
The servers of India’s second largest cooperative bank were hacked on August 11 and August 13. The cybercriminals carried out 15,000 transactions | Continue reading
Apple and TRAI have been at loggerheads over allowing the government-backed DND app on iPhones. While the regulator believes the app will help consumers block pesky messages, Apple has declined the app citing users’ privacy. | Continue reading