Engineers have reportedly developed a new solar panel design inspired by the hexagonal honeycomb built by bees, offering a potential solution to one of the technology’s biggest limitations. Conventional solar panels lose a significant amount of energy when sunlight strikes them at an angle, as much of the light is reflected away instead of being…
Societies clinging to the past while dreaming of the future are often trapped between two mental states. India, just out of the clutches of colonialism, too experienced this duality in social order. In this general backdrop of ambiguity, the nation’s attitude to the female playback voice, too, was complicated. After all, voices are secret catalogues…
China’s Ministry of State Security has claimed that foreign intelligence agencies are using marine animals fitted with sensors, including “spy turtles” and “spy fish,” to collect sensitive data in Chinese waters as part of what it called an “invisible secret war.“In a post on the WeChat social media platform on Friday, the ministry said large…
BENGALURU: TCS chairman N Chandrasekaran said the IT industry will no longer hire at the scale seen over the past two decades as artificial intelligence takes over parts of traditional work, signalling a structural shift for India’s $315-billion technology sector. “The company will not be hiring the kind of numbers it used to hire,” Chandrasekaran…
Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak on Monday said he has not received confirmation on whether Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya have cleared their fitness tests ahead of the ODI series against Afghanistan, but added that he has heard both players are doing well.Rohit and Hardik have been named in India’s squad…
NEW DELHI: The Calcutta high court on Monday refused to grant urgent listing to a petition filed by former West Bengal minister Aroop Biswas seeking the quashing of an FIR lodged against him by Messi GOAT Tour organiser Satadru Datta over allegations of criminal intimidation.The matter was mentioned before a bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharya…
RAJKOT: Four people were charred to death and ten others injured after a private bus collided with a tanker carrying damar on the Ahmedabad–Rajkot National Highway early Thursday morning. The bus caught fire immediately after the collision. According to sources, the bodies of the victims were burnt beyond recognition.Police said the accident occurred around 1:30…
Every day in my clinic, the first advice I give to new parents is to breastfeed. Breast milk is designed for your child immunologically, nutritionally and developmentally. It is the single best thing you can do for your infant’s health.But, sociocultural trends in urban India tell a different story. Nuclear families with both parents working…
‘Disgusting what govt is doing’: Rahul Gandhi slams police action against protesters; shares video NEW DELHI: Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi the ‘most youth-hostile Prime Minister in India’s history’. He also criticised the use of tear gas and lathi charge against…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Iranian counterpart Seyed Abbas Araghchi discussed the West Asia conflict and its implications, including the Strait of Hormuz situation, in their first bilateral meeting since the US-Israel and Iran war started in February. Araghchi said later that he had a fruitful engagement with Jaishankar, discussed regional developments and…