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India will submit its updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in Brazil on November 10, likely with an increased target for energy efficiency improvement, sources in the Environment Ministry indicated to The Hindu. | Photo Credit: AP India will submit its updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) around the commencement of U.N. Climate Change Conference COP 30 … Read more

A bird’s eye view of confluence of Alaknanda and Bhagirathi rivers in Devprayag, a point from which the river is called the Ganga. | Photo Credit: AKHILESH KUMAR/The Hindu The Ganga river sustains a population of more than 600 million people and is central to South Asia’s economy and culture — and it’s drying at … Read more

The key to distinguishing between the causes lies in specific symptoms. | Photo Credit: Towfiqu Barbhuiya A: An allergic reaction in the throat can feel remarkably similar to a throat infection because both conditions involve inflammation of the same tissues, and inflammation tends to produce a narrow range of sensations. When allergens such as pollen, … Read more

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman V. Narayanan said that ISRO was working on a project that was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018 wherein humans will be sent to space. He was in Coimbatore to take part in a private college function. At Coimbatore Airport, he said that an unmanned satellite would … Read more

Four professors from Yogi Vemana University (YVU) featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list published by Stanford University in its 2025 edition. M.V. Shankar from the Department of Material Science and Nano-technology, L. Veeranjaney Reddy from the Department of Microbiology, and Katta Venkateswarlu from Department of Chemistry were among the list. Additionally, YVU Vice-Chancellor … Read more

The other day I received a letter from a friend. My love for letters is very old. These magical spacetime capsules bring in thoughts of a person written in a different location about a different period of time in their lives. And while reading that piece of paper, one can slowly be transmitted to that … Read more

Following a near miss in 2024 between an Indian satellite and a foreign spacecraft, New Delhi has begun planning “bodyguard satellites” to watch over its fleet, according to media reports — a decision that could be part of a wider strategy that includes new surveillance spacecraft, radars, telescopes, and technologies such as LiDAR. Satellites today … Read more

For all its apparent serenity, the universe is a very violent place teeming with cataclysmic events: from colliding galaxies and supernovae (the explosive deaths of massive stars), to immensely powerful geysers of X-rays and black holes that gobble up stars. In this deafening cosmic din, astronomers have always considered gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), produced during the … Read more

Imagge used for representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The story so far: On September 11, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) was exploring the possibility of blending isobutanol with diesel. Isobutanol is an alcoholic compound with inflammable properties and is used as a solvent in several industries, … Read more