Pencil marks, composed of graphite flakes, adhere to paper fibers through weak van der Waals interactions. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons A new sheet of paper is a blank canvas, but a microscope shows that it’s a wild, tangled jungle of cellulose fibres. “Every time you drag a pencil across that grid, you’re causing a little…
MUMBAI: A revolutionary air-independent propulsion system for submarines has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), which will enhance the capability of the Navy, DRDO chairperson Samir V Kamat announced on Saturday during the commencement ceremony of IIT Bombay.Kamat said the land-based prototype of the system was tested in 2021 and the…
We live in an age where we use apps to find love, spreadsheets to track compatibility, and podcasts to diagnose every “red flag” we encounter. But sometimes, the most sophisticated advice is the simplest. Sadhguru, who consistently manages to bridge the gap between ancient mysticism and the reality of 2026, offers a perspective that’s a…
NEW DELHI: India has succeeded in bringing 21.7 million hectares of degraded land under restoration against its target of restoring 26 million hectares by 2030 as per its voluntary global commitment, shows the country’s second progress report on the Bonn Challenge released on the world day to combat desertification and drought on Wednesday.Among states, Telangana…
Amazon has reportedly not asked the Trump government to refund that US Supreme Court allowed companies to take. Earlier this year, after the Supreme Court struck down Trump tariffs, the federal government set up a method to reimburse those who had paid them. Consumers in a proposed class action, filed in federal court in Seattle…
MUMBAI: Two years after one of India’s most storied business dynasties, Godrej Group, split, Godrej Industries Group (GIG) is targeting 15% annual growth over five years and preparing to list more businesses as incoming chairman Pirojsha Godrej charts its next phase.GIG, with sales of Rs 57,300 crore, also plans to expand a nascent pet care…
Several staff and crew members were injured after a Lufthansa flight’s nose gear collapsed on Thursday at Germany’s Frankfurt airport.“Passengers had not yet boarded,” a company spokesperson said in a statement, adding that crew members and ground staff were on board the aircraft at the time of the incident, as quoted by Reuters, citing Bloomberg…
US President Donald Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after shots were fired at the event on Friday.According to news agency Agence France-Presse, the suspect has been taken into custody by the United States Secret Service.Meanwhile, sources familiar with the situation told Fox News that an individual attempted to get through security…
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Usman Jutt was a man on a mission – till vanity got in the way. He successfully infiltrated into India from Pakistan with the objective of establishing a sleeper cell, but put that on hold while he checked into a medical clinic in Srinagar for a hair transplant. Nor is Jutt the…
Pakistan’s stock market saw a sharp sell-off on Monday, with the benchmark KSE-100 index plunging nearly 6,000 points as the collapse of US-Iran ceasefire talks and rising tensions in the Strait of Hormuz hit investor sentiment.KSE-100 index dropped 3.5 per cent to hit an intraday low of 1,61,638, reversing last week’s sharp rally when it…