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(1) Bus accident kills 7 near Hiriyur, Karnataka Seven people were killed after a container truck rammed into the Gokarna-bound bus from Bengaluru, triggering a fire that rapidly engulfed the vehicle and left passengers with little time to escape. The tragedy has once again caused concerns that have surfaced repeatedly after similar accidents in recent … Read more

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Oszkár Nagyapáti, farmer and member of the volunteer water guardians, stands in a hole in Kiskunmajsa, Hungary, July 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of … Read more

Astronomers from India have discovered the second farthest spiral galaxy in the depths of the universe, using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and have named it ‘Alaknanda’. The galaxy was an unexpected sight during a broader study of galaxy shapes in the early universe. The findings were published in Astronomy & Astrophysics in … Read more

On December 23 Air Marshal and the Integrated Defence Staff chief Ashutosh Dixit laid out the defence establishment’s case for critical minerals. Modern defence systems, he said, rely on reliable access to these minerals and import dependence has become a strategic vulnerability because global supply chains are concentrated and exposed to export controls and geopolitics. … Read more

Spectrum of light from a frequency comb installed on the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, Chile. | Photo Credit: ESO A frequency comb is a special kind of laser light whose spectrum, or set of frequencies, resembles the teeth of a comb. Instead of containing just one colour (one frequency), it emits a large … Read more

A drone view of the Aravalli Hills in Ajmer. | Photo Credit: ANI The Aravalli Hills look modest today but they sit on some of the oldest and most studied rocks in India. Geologists care about them because they preserve a long record of how a piece of the earth’s crust in northwestern India was … Read more

Study authors call for integrated prevention strategies addressing alcohol and tobacco together, and for stronger regulation of locally brewed liquors, which often fall outside formal licensing and quality-control systems. Representative image. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Alcohol consumption, even in small amounts, significantly increases the risk of buccal mucosa cancer (BMC), a common and aggressive … Read more

What is it? Travel is an amazing activity one can take up to explore beyond the horizons of their knowledge. However, there are two sides to everything, both good and…not so good. Jet lag is one of the major drawbacks when one travels past multiple time zones (five or more) by plane. It is a … Read more

Rare-earth elements are a set of metallic elements in the periodic table. Chemists usually refer to a group of 17 elements when they use this label: the 15 lanthanides from lanthanum to lutetium, and scandium and yttrium. In most classroom periodic tables, the lanthanides are shown as a separate row placed beneath the main periodic … Read more

A spectacled cobra, one of India’s ‘Big Four’ species. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT/The Hindu As India has progressed, the stereotyped image of the “land of snake charmers” has been left behind. We now have snake rescuers. However, in rural areas, snakebites still account for 58,000 deaths every year, affecting workers in paddy fields as … Read more

A topographic map of the Indian Ocean on November 27, 2025, as Cyclone Ditwah approaches Sri Lanka and southern India | Photo Credit: FrankRamspott The cyclonic disturbances over the North Indian Ocean, which include the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal, and the land area in between, have changed drastically over the last century. Broadly, … Read more

DNA inside human cells is not free-floating. Instead, it is tightly wrapped around small protein units forming a long chain, with DNA looping around each unit before moving on to the next. This DNA-protein complex is called chromatin and allows nearly 2 m of genetic material to fit inside a nucleus only a few micrometres … Read more

Scientists have suspected for decades that high-flying mosquitoes could move pathogens far from where the mosquitoes first took an infected blood meal. | Photo Credit: Wolfgang Hasselmann/Unsplash Mosquitoes spread diseases such as malaria and dengue, and these diseases affect billions of people worldwide. Many public health plans assume that pathogens borne by mosquitoes spread over … Read more

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Science quiz: Giants on whose shoulders Newton stood 1 / 5 | The work of X on falling bodies and the idea that an object in motion tends to stay in motion set the stage for Newton’s laws of motion. X is also known for trying mathematics to physical measurements in a new way. Newton … Read more

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Along the Vaigai river in southern Tamil Nadu, archaeologists have been excavating an old settlement at Keezhadi. They have already found brick walls, channels that look like drains or small canals, floors made of fine clay, and many pieces of pottery. These finds matter because Tamil poems from the Sangam period talk about busy towns … Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (December 24, 2025) congratulated Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for placing the heaviest satellite in orbit from India using the LVM3 rocket and strengthening the foundation for future missions such as the Gaganyaan. The Prime Minister also said that the … Read more

Video grab of ISRO launching the LVM3-M6 rocket with the BlueBird Block-2 mission The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (LVM3) on Wednesday (December 24, 2025) morning, with the BlueBird Block-2 satellite, lifted off from the second launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The LVM3-M6 is expected to … Read more

Doping is the used of banned athletic performance enhancing drug by athlete in competitive sport. Medical test. | Photo Credit: Md Babul Hosen India has recorded the highest number of doping offenders globally for the third consecutive year, according to the latest World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) report. According to the WADA’s 2024 report, India recorded … Read more

Yawning has important functions for the body. | Photo Credit: Tim Bish/Unsplash A: You’ve just had a heavy meal and now you have to sit through a dull lecture. Soon you’re feeling drowsy. You yawn, and your eyes water. This happens because yawning affects the muscles and glands around the eyes. Just above each eye … Read more

In this image posted on December 23, 2025, Indian Space Research Organisation’s LVM3M6 set to launch the BlueBird Block-2 spacecraft from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Photo: X/@isro via PTI Photo The 24-hour countdown for the launch of LVM3-M6 rocket, which will carry a new generation U.S. communication satellite commenced in Sriharikota on Tuesday (December … Read more

The story so far: Millions of naturally occurring Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris (MMOD) orbit the earth, posing a constant threat to all spacecraft and space stations. The menace attracted global attention recently when a piece of debris struck the Chinese crewed vehicle Shenzhou-20, causing a minor crack in the window of its return capsule, rendering … Read more

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According to organ utilisation data, 65 hearts and 86 lungs were utilised in 2025, accounting for 27.08% and 17.91% respectively. In 2024, 35.82% hearts and 16.61% lungs were utilised. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: R. Ashok From 2021 to 2025 (up until November 27), the number of major organ transplants rose … Read more

Sudan paramilitaries launched a large-scale drone attack in the east on Thursday (December 18, 2025), a military source told AFP, with strikes hitting a key power station, causing major outages and killing three. Since April 2023, Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a conflict that has killed tens … Read more

Commemorating December 22 as National Mathematics Day invites memories of biographies, theorems, institutes, and prizes. But India also has mathematical places: built environments that render the mathematical act of measurement public. Jantar Mantar in New Delhi is one of them. It was commissioned by Sawai Jai Singh II and completed in 1724 as an architectural … Read more

The Draft Electoral Roll published on December 19 recorded about 97.3 lakh deletions in total | Photo Credit: L. Balachandar An analysis of the Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu’s polling station-level list of over 97 lakh deleted electors in Tamil Nadu reveals several anomalies that require closer examination. The analysis reveals eight distinct categories of … Read more

(1) Shooting in Australia kills 15 Two men opened fire on a celebratory gathering in Bondi Beach, Australia, killing at least 15 people on Sunday last week (December 14, 2025) in what was the bloodiest shootings in the country’s recent history. Around a 1,000 people had gathered near the beach for Hanukkah, a Jewish festival. … Read more