‘Checked-in’: Hardik Pandya joins MI squad ahead of IPL match against RCB | Cricket News
NEW DELHI: Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya has joined his MI teammates in Raipur ahead…
The Hardy-Ramanujan number 1729: A number that changed math forever |
The story of 1729 chronicles the remarkable relationship between British mathematician GH Hardy and Indian mathematical savant Srinivasa Ramanujan, who taught himself mathematics. One day in 1918, Hardy visited Ramanujan, who was at a nursing home. He mentioned that the number on his taxi, 1729, seemed singularly devoid of interest. As noted in a report…
IPL 2026: Suryakumar Yadav to miss fixture against Punjab Kings due to personal reasons | Cricket News
Suryakumar Yadav (AP Photo) New Delhi: Mumbai Indians stand-in captain Suryakumar Yadav is set to miss the side’s match against Punjab Kings in Dharamsala on Thursday due to personal reasons. It’s learned that the right-hander has decided against travelling and has already communicated his decision to the team management ahead of their next fixture.The five-time…
“Burnout is real”: How Aarav Goel scored 97.20% in CBSE Class 12 while battling NEET pressure
The CBSE Class 12th results this year felt like an emotional rollercoaster for lakhs of students across the country. The wait seemed endless at first. Then, on May 13, when the results were finally declared, emotions spilled over in every possible form. Some students refreshed websites with trembling hands. Some avoided looking at their marksheets…
What scientists found near Earth’s core could explain strange magnetic patterns |
Deep inside Earth, hidden structures may be steering the planet’s magnetic shield. Image credit – Wikimedia The Earth’s magnetic field protects our planet from the harmful effects of solar radiation, thus allowing the development of life on Earth. It is known that the magnetosphere of our planet is generated due to the movement of molten…
India squads for Afghanistan Test, ODIs likely to be picked on May 19 | Cricket News
India’s captain Shubman Gill, center, KL Rahul, right, and Yashasvi Jaiswal celebrate after winning the cricket Test series against West Indies, at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) The Indian men’s senior selection committee, chaired by Ajit Agarkar, is likely to pick squads for the one-off Test against Afghanistan and the three…
The billion-year gap: Why the Grand Canyon is hiding a massive chapter of Earth’s missing history |
The Grand Canyon reveals a significant geological gap, the Great Unconformity, representing 1.3 billion years of missing Earth history. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Grand Canyon’s fame comes from the opportunity to observe geological layers of history seen there, similar to pages in an old book. It might even be the most famous of such geological…
In 2015, a few silver coins found in an Oxfordshire field rewrote the legend of King Alfred the Great |
An amateur treasure hunter’s discovery of the Watlington Hoard in Oxfordshire has rewritten English history. Image Credit: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum, via Wikimedia Commons Well before the undulating terrain of Oxfordshire came to be a peaceful haven for those on foot, the region around Watlington was a battleground in…
In 2003, a “broken pan” found in a northern field turned out to be a 2,000-year-old Roman tourist souvenir |
An ornate Roman pan, unearthed in Staffordshire, offers a unique glimpse into life on the empire’s frontier. Image Credits: Portable Antiquities Scheme from London, England, via Wikimedia Commons The Romans also had their own way of commemorating their travels, even before the invention of digital photography and refrigerator magnets. In 2003, an amateur archaeologist using…
Pat Cummins: ‘Everything is made up’: Pat Cummins rubbishes claims of SA20 NOC from Cricket Australia | Cricket News
Australia captain Pat Cummins has strongly denied claims made senior Australian cricketers could consider skipping the home summer to participate in lucrative overseas franchise leagues.According to report in The Age a group of Australia’s leading players, including Cummins, may seek no-objection certificates (NOCs) to feature in South Africa’s SA20 tournament in 2028 if they are…
In 1831, a man digging in a Scottish sand dune found a “frozen” crowd of ivory faces that changed history |
In 1831, a sand-clearing resident on the Isle of Lewis unearthed 93 elaborately carved figures, the Lewis Chessmen, made of walrus ivory and whale teeth. Image Credits: British Museum, via Wikimedia Commons Long before the Isle of Lewis came to be known as a hiking paradise for history lovers, there was a hidden story that…