Goddard physicist Henry Plotkin inspects the retroreflector array destined for the 1964 Beacon Explorer A satellite, PC: Henry Plotkin/ Nasa On October 29, 1964, a team at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland, recorded the first successful laser returns from an artificial satellite. The target was Beacon Explorer B, also known as Explorer…
Union Minister Ram Mohan Naidu during the groundbreaking ceremony of Federal Express Corporation’s (FedEx) integrated air cargo hub, in New Delhi Federal Express Corporation (FedEx) plans to invest around $150 million (over Rs 1,400 crore) to develop an integrated air cargo hub spread across 2.3 lakh square feet at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA).The…
Remember CATS, the early-2000s television series featuring Nafisa Joseph, Kuljeet Randhawa and Malini Sharma? While Joseph and Randhawa tragically died by suicide, Sharma gradually distanced herself from the entertainment industry. Today, she leads a life that looks very different from her Bollywood days — surrounded by farms, trees, homegrown produce and guests at her property…
Mars may be millions of kilometres from Minnesota, but for Cloquet student Jeremiah Bents, one small part of a future Mars mission could be tested much closer to home. Instead of looking at how to reach the Red Planet, Bents turned his attention to what astronauts might do once they get there, particularly when dealing…
Life can sometimes seem as if it is going in a different direction than the one we want. There are days when things seem hopeless and the road ahead seems unclear. In times like these, recalling this quote by Albert Einstein can help to provide clarity and perspective,“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep…
In 1993, Princess Diana put something deeply disturbing in writing.Ten months after her separation from Prince Charles was announced, Diana wrote a handwritten note to her then-butler, Paul Burrell, in which she claimed that her estranged husband was planning an “accident” involving her car.The letter later became part of the evidence examined during the inquest…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: A poor outing with the bat did not stop Vaibhav Sooryavanshi from making an impact in the Duleep Trophy. The 15-year-old East Zone vice-captain rolled up his sleeves and picked up two wickets in the space of four balls against North East Zone in the quarter-final at the BCCI…
Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than three decades, a collection of animal bones from Ireland’s Ferriter’s Cove was considered some of the earliest evidence that farming had reached the island. But new research has now overturned that interpretation. According to University College Dublin (UCD), bones once identified as cattle have instead been identified as belonging…
Zeeshan Ansari bowls during India A vs Sri Lanka A match at Galle (Photo Courtesy: Sri Lanka Cricket) NEW DELHI: Zeeshan Ansari went six years in cricket’s red-ball wilderness. After playing for Uttar Pradesh against Tamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy in January 2020, the legspinner admitted that he found it difficult to bowl with…
Your favourite time of day cannot neatly define your personality. It cannot tell someone with certainty whether you are introverted or outgoing, adventurous or cautious, disciplined or spontaneous, emotional or reserved.What it may reveal, however, is something about your natural rhythm, the part of the day when your energy, focus and mood seem to align…
Dr DisRespect vs Nickmercs heats up as Doc appears to threaten him during Call of Duty stream. (Image via: Instagram/@drdisrespect & @nickmercs) Dr DisRespect, whose real name is Herschel “Guy,” has once again taken aim at Nickmercs, this time during a Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 Beta livestream. On August 24, 2026, a 42-second…
Part of the concern is that blacklisting Chinese companies could trigger another economic confrontation between Washington and Beijing. (Reuters file photo) The Donald Trump administration’s road to economically choke Iran will have to go through China – if it wants to cripple the Middle East country. However, with a fragile trade peace in place between…
