Petroleum ministry clarifies ethanol programme amid debate NEW DELHI: Petroleum and natural gas ministry on Friday said that E20 petrol is currently costlier to produce than pure petrol at prevailing global crude oil prices, but maintained that the ethanol blending programme has helped protect Indian consumers from volatile international oil prices while improving the country’s…
Norway’s Erling Haaland (9) leads the team as they participate in a viking boat row celebration. (AP Photo) Norway’s remarkable FIFA World Cup run has now reached beyond football and into the digital world, with Google joining the viral ‘Viking Row’ celebration craze as superstar Erling Haaland encouraged fans to search his name online in…
While sleeping mid-air sounds unbelievable, it is a special adaptation among birds. As reported in a study published in Nature Communications by the scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, certain species of birds can fall asleep in-flight using unihemispheric slow-wave sleep when one hemisphere of the brain is resting, and the other…
Fresh CCTV footage has been released by a family alleging bullying caused their daughter’s death. JAIPUR: Nearly eight months after a nine-year-old girl allegedly died by suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of Jaipur’s Neerja Modi School, her family has released fresh CCTV footage claiming it captures repeated bullying inside the classroom shortly before…
IIT Bombay graduate and AI entrepreneur Rishabh Agrawal has addressed reports claiming he turned down a million-dollar offer from Meta after working at the company for five months. Last year announcing his departure from Meta, Agarwal shared a post on X and wrote, “This is my last week at @AIatMeta. It was a tough decision…
Image: Sarthak Dhawan/ Linkedin Artificial intelligence has transformed the way startups build products, allowing small teams to accomplish in weeks what once took months. But that speed comes at a price. Every prompt sent to an AI model consumes computing resources, measured in tokens, and heavy usage can quickly turn into a sizable bill. For…
Milk and butter are two of the most commonly used dairy products. And while we use them on a daily basis, have you ever wondered why butter has a rich yellow hue while the milk it comes from looks bright white? Isn’t it surprising that butter is made by churning milk or cream, and still…
S&P Global Ratings said inadequate rainfall could reduce crop yields and directly affect farmers’ earnings (File photo) A weaker-than-normal southwest monsoon could pose risks to India’s rural economy by reducing farm incomes, increasing food inflation and slowing consumption demand in the coming months, according to a report by S&P Global Ratings.The rating agency said agriculture…
A formation consisting of three Su-30 MKIs fly in formation. (Image credit: Indian Air Force) The World Directory of Modern Military Aircraft (WDMMA) has again ranked the Indian Air Force third in its 2026 list, after the United States and Russia. More notably, China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) is placed fourth. This is…
The findings have renewed concerns not only over the safety of the project itself but also over its wider implications for India. (Generative image) Even as China races to build the world’s largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, its own government-backed geologists have warned that the mega dam sits above an…