This is how India’s first bullet train would look (Courtesy: Indian Railways via ANI) NEW DELHI: Indian Railways has unveiled the design of the country’s first bullet train, set to run between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, displaying an image of the train at the Ministry of Railways in the national capital.Also Read: India’s first ‘swadeshi’ bullet…
Oben Electric has announced that its newly launched Oben Rorr Evo has crossed 25,000 bookings within just 15 days of launch. The Bengaluru-based EV maker says deliveries of the motorcycle will begin from June 2026, while the payment portal has now gone live on the company’s website. The company has also announced plans to add…
A routine fishing trip in 1938 yielded an astonishing discovery: a living coelacanth, a fish thought extinct for 66 million years. This ‘living fossil’ challenged scientific understanding of evolution and extinction. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Some of the greatest scientific findings indeed tend to occur when people least expect them to. For example, on one…
Bharti Airtel has overtaken HDFC Bank to become India’s second most valuable listed company by market capitalisation, underlining the sharp re-rating in telecom stocks and changing investor preferences on Dalal Street, according to an ET report.Bharti Airtel shares rose more than 2 per cent to Rs 1,943 on the BSE, pushing the company’s market capitalisation…
Long before celebrity environmental campaigns became common, Morgan Freeman quietly began transforming his 124-acre ranch in Mississippi into a safe haven for bees. Concerned about declining pollinator populations and the growing environmental threat posed by disappearing honeybees, Freeman imported 26 beehives from Arkansas in 2014 and began planting bee-friendly vegetation across his property, including lavender,…
New Delhi: Oil marketing companies are under-recovering Rs 750 crore a day on the sale of petrol, diesel and domestic LPG cylinders below market prices, govt said on Monday.Before the price of petrol and diesel was raised by Rs 3 per litre late last week, the under-recoveries incurred by OMCs were estimated at Rs 1,000…
Dan Shechtman found a forbidden pattern while looking at an aluminium alloy through an electron microscope. Image credit – Wikimedia When Dan Shechtman analysed the aluminium-manganese alloy rapidly cooled in April 1982 through a transmission electron microscope, the materials scientist found something unusual. The diffraction pattern on the metal revealed the tenfold symmetry, a structure…
India’s purchases of Russian crude have remained elevated. (AI image) Making its energy security mandate clear, India has said that it is buying crude oil from Russia irrespective of a sanctions waiver by the US. The statement from Sujata Sharma, joint secretary in the petroleum ministry comes days after a Bloomberg report said that India…
A routine cleaning in 1900 at China’s Mogao Grottoes led to a major historical find. Monk Wang Yuanlu uncovered a hidden chamber, the Library Cave, packed with nearly 50,000 ancient documents and artefacts. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons Some of the greatest secrets of history come about simply while cleaning up after oneself. It was in…
Scientists have uncovered a colossal magma reservoir, the largest ever imaged, lurking miles beneath the Andes. This molten body, approximately 125 miles wide, is actively expanding, causing the entire Altiplano-Puna plateau to rise. In the high Andes region of South America lies the Altiplano-Puna plateau, a harsh, windswept terrain reminiscent of something found on another…
