Early into his tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has listed a 17-point plan to take India forward. As per a report in a leading English daily, the 17-point agenda is people-oriented and envisages among other things coastal expressways, labour reforms and health knowledge institutes. The agenda was finalised on July 10 and forwarded to all the ministries. The ministries had time till July 20 to reply back with a detailed […]
In an ambitious plan to upgrade urban India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he will build 100 “smart cities” — cities outfitted with high-tech communication capabilities — across the country. “Cities in the past were built on riverbanks,” Modi said in a June speech. “They are now built along highways. But in the future, they will be built based on availability of optical fiber networks and next-generation infrastructure.” For Modi, […]
Geologists have discovered the secret that gives dramatic natural sandstone monuments their shape: gravity. By studying cubes of sand in the lab, they showed that areas squeezed by vertical stress are protected from erosion, while others wash away. The process had proved difficult to study, because natural slabs of sandstone erode over millions of years. The key to the experiments, published in Nature Geoscience, was an unusual “locked sand” dug […]
A giant yellow rubber duck floating on Nanming River in China’s south-west Guizhou Province has reportedly been swept away by floodwaters just months after it exploded on display in Taiwan. The 18m (59ft) sculpture by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman disappeared around 19:00 local time on Wednesday, after the city saw days of heavy rainfall, the Taiwan-based Want China Times reports. Even though the duck weighs 1 tonne, and was sitting […]
The Digestion Process: Ingested food passes down the oesophagus (food pipe) into the stomach. Stomach cells produce mucus which protects the stomach lining from damage from digestive acids and chemicals, produced by the stomach itself. The oesophagus cell linings are more delicate and have little protection from acid. A sphincter (a ring of muscule that contracts to close an opening) called lower esophageal sphincter (LES), is present at the junction […]
Al-Qaeda is at the gates, and there are enough jihadis within already. Intelligence agencies say the terror network is making inroads into India, sowing the seeds of a “final war” across the country. Information gathered on al-Qaeda’s India plans points to a mobilisation of its resources for jihad. The ideological goal of the group, as detailed in the report, is chilling: Ghazwa-e-Hind, or the final battle in India. Ghazwa-e-Hind refers […]
Finding new ways to view the world around you is a blessing. Too often we take this planet for granted. It’s a massive, beautiful place. To really appreciate something, sometimes all you need is a change of perspective. That’s what Dronestagram offers. On this unique photography website, people use their drones to take incredible aerial photographs of the world around them. In the past, it’d be impossible for the average […]
It is already the world’s biggest cemetery, the final resting resting place of some five million souls but it’s growing all the time. With gravestones stretching out as far as the eye can see, Wadi Al-Salaam, which translates as Valley of Peace, is an ancient Islamic cemetery near the holy city Shiite city of Najaf. The site is located close to the shrine of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib, the […]
There are many diseases explained in Ayurveda, the causes and symptoms of which match exactly with the current day diseases. Rheumatoid arthritis is one such example. Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease mainly affecting joints. Most of the causes and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis explained match with a disease explained in Ayurveda books. What is rheumatoid arthritis? Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease, affecting mainly joints having a covering, called synovial […]
“I will never apologize for the United States. Ever. I don’t care what the facts are.” – Presidential candidate George H.W. Bush in 1988, on the shooting down of Iran Air 655. Despite the fact that investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 has just begun, and that the US has released no concrete evidence, America’s mainstream media machine is in a frenzy to blame Russia for this […]
