Year: 2018

Tropical Storm ‘Florence’ Leaves Five Dead, Communities Flooded in North, South Carolina

Tropical Storm ‘Florence’ Leaves Five Dead, Communities Flooded in North, South Carolina

Ernest Scheyder 15/09/2018

Florence was one of two major storms threatening millions of...

Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Engineer’s Day: The Little Known Histories of Indian, British Engineers Before 1947

Aparajith Ramnath 15/09/2018

In the period between the World Wars, homegrown Indian...

Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar in July 2018. Credit: Facebook/Manohar Parrikar

Manohar Parrikar Flown to Delhi AIIMS for Follow-Up Treatment

The Wire Staff 15/09/2018

Parrikar, 62, is currently undergoing treatment for a pancreatic...

Indian Space Research Organisation - ISRO, Vikram Sarabhai, Gaganyaan, Chandrayaan 1, Chandrayaan 2, Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan, GSLV Mark III, GSLV Mk III, Satellite Instructional Television Experiment, NASA, INSAT, GSAT, Indian Remote Sensing satellites, IRS satellite, UR Rao, Yash Pal, INCOSPAR, International Space Station, Indian Air Force, Dakshin Gangotri, Antarctica, human spaceflight, Jawaharlal Nehru,

Explainer: The Loose Ends of the Sinister ISRO ‘Spy’ Case

Manoj Joshi 15/09/2018

The espionage case dates back to 1994, when S....

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Why Do Delhi Roads Get Water-Logged?

Sohail Hashmi 15/09/2018

Unplanned urban expansion has ignored factors such as natural...

The 2018 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony underway at the Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Boston. Credit: Improbable Research

Infinite in All Directions: Will an Indian Win the Ig Nobel Prize by 2035?

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/09/2018

The ideas that win the Ig Nobel Prizes may...

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Two Die in a Flash Flood in Arunachal Pradesh

A cloudburst triggered the flash flood at around 4.30...