A video showing a teacher using an inflated tyre tube to cross the swollen river has gone viral on social media BHOPAL: Schoolteachers left stranded by the swollen Baisali river in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind will no longer have to risk crossing it on inflated tyre tubes to mark e-attendance, after the school education department arranged…
Mars may be millions of kilometres from Minnesota, but for Cloquet student Jeremiah Bents, one small part of a future Mars mission could be tested much closer to home. Instead of looking at how to reach the Red Planet, Bents turned his attention to what astronauts might do once they get there, particularly when dealing…
Sridhar Vembu: Zoho founder explains why employees should seize the initiative Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has sparked a conversation on workplace culture with a simple question: should employees wait for instructions from the top, or should they be encouraged to take initiative and act?In a recent post on X, Vembu argued that organisations face a…
Dhakshineshwar Suresh (File Photo) NEW DELHI: Dhakshineswar Suresh served a staggering 17 aces to pick up his first win on the ATP Tour, defeating World No. 77 Marcos Giron in straight sets at the Winston-Salem Open. Suresh, ranked 394th in the world, won 6-3, 7-5 in just over an hour.The 26-year-old is the second Indian…
Authorities are asking people to report sightings and signs of the animals. (Photo: WWF Australia) Wallabies introduced to New Zealand more than a century ago have spread across more than 200,000 hectares in the country’s North Island. Authorities are now working to control their population because the animals can damage native forests, compete with farm…
AI generated image for representation Many people spend hours watching movies, shows and sports on their TV, but only a few make the most of their screen’s picture quality. The good news is that users do not need expensive equipment or professional calibration to improve their TV picture. A few simple changes to picture mode,…
Goddard physicist Henry Plotkin inspects the retroreflector array destined for the 1964 Beacon Explorer A satellite, PC: Henry Plotkin/ Nasa On October 29, 1964, a team at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, recorded the first successful laser returns from an artificial satellite. The target was Beacon Explorer B, also known as Explorer…
Goldman Sachs has cautioned that America’s energy sector is facing a ‘big trouble’ not only from the power supply constraints but also from the looming labour shortage. According to a report by Fortune, the investment bank’s latest report estimates that the US power and grid value chain will require around 500,000 additional workers by 2030…
Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than three decades, a collection of animal bones from Ireland’s Ferriter’s Cove was considered some of the earliest evidence that farming had reached the island. But new research has now overturned that interpretation. According to University College Dublin (UCD), bones once identified as cattle have instead been identified as belonging…
Students in Patna protested the 70th BPSC examination, demanding its cancellation due to alleged irregularities. PATNA: Tension prevailed in Patna on Tuesday as students protesting the 70th Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) examination broke through police barricades while marching from Gandhi Maidan towards Raj Bhavan, demanding cancellation of the exam.The protesters attempted to move into…