Year: 2019

Event Horizon Telescope, CV Vishveshwara, black holes, M87 black hole, Sagittarius A*, Georg Bernhard Riemann, Hermann Minkowski, Marcel Grossmann, Tullio Levi-Civita, Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, David Hilbert, Albert Einstein, Karl Schwarzchild, Schwarzchild radius, general theory of relativity, special theory of relativity, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, gravitational physics, Arthur Eddington, Robert Oppenheimer, John Wheeler, white dwarf, Kip Thorne, Richard Feynman, theoretical physics, mathematical physics,

A Brief History of Black Holes

Ronak Gupta 17/04/2019

Black hole research started off as a purely theoretical...

Rhinos and buffalos take shelter at a high land in the flooded Kaziranga National Park in Assam. Credit: PTI

SC Bans Mining Activities Along Kaziranga National Park

A Central Empowered Committee said many of the sites...

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Rain, Dust Storm Leaves 35 Dead in Rajasthan, MP and Gujarat

After PM Modi took to Twitter to express anguish...

summer monsoon, El Nino Southern Oscillation, IMD, India Meteorological Department, El Nino souther oscillation, Indian Ocean dipole, monsoon forecast, northeast monsoon, southwest monsoon, Pacific Ocean, climate change, Ministry of Earth Sciences,

IMD Predicts ‘Near Normal’ Southwest Monsoon

Sunderarajan Padmanabhan 16/04/2019

The IMD issues its operational forecast for the southwest...

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NASA’s Cassini Reveals Lakes of Liquid Methane On Saturn’s Moon

Will Dunham 16/04/2019

Titan and Earth are two places in the solar system...

Coal mining in Maharashtra. Credit: Ashish Kothari

Sustaining India: Is There Anything to Choose Between BJP and Congress?

Ashish Kothari 16/04/2019

A look at how the country’s political heavyweights deal...

primary healthcare centres, healthcare allocation, health budget, women's health, doctors protest, Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, anganwadi, midday meals, anganwadi meals, eggs, workplace safety, tuberculosis, malnutrition, Muzaffarpur, Kota, Dungarpur, gender discrimination, gender based discrimination, infant mortality rate, Ayushman Bharat,

‘Health for All’ as a Political Question

Manabi Majumdar 16/04/2019

A recent public debate on universal and basic healthcare in...