The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday successfully achieved the separation and injection of the Indian Navy’s GSAT-7R (CMS-03) communication satellite, which would strengthen the force’s space-based communications and maritime domain awareness capabilities. The satellite, the most advanced communication satellite thus far for the Indian Navy and carried on a LVM3-M5 rocket, was...
Updated: Dec 21st, 2025 The Muhammad Yunus-led interim administration in Bangladesh has received a 24-hour ultimatum from the radical organisation Inquilab Mancha, demanding the immediate arrest of those responsible for the killing of its leader, Sharif Osman Hadi. The ultimatum was issued after Hadi’s funeral, as thousands of his supporters assembled at Dhaka’s Shahbagh intersection...
A new study has revealed a consistent decline in sunshine hours (SSH) across most regions of India between 1988 and 2018, with the sharpest fall recorded in northern inland areas and the Himalayan region. The research, published in Scientific Reports and titled ‘Spatiotemporal trends in sunshine hours over India during three decades from 1988 to...
Updated: Dec 20th, 2025 The release of long-awaited documents linked to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has triggered fresh controversy in the United States, with photographs and references to several high-profile figures becoming public. The documents, released by the United States Department of Justice, include images of former US president Bill Clinton,...
Image : IG (madhwara_seva) A video from Bengaluru’s RV College of Engineering (RVCE) showing a self-driving car cruising around campus has gone viral on social media, sparking fascination online. The clip features Sri Satyatmatheertha Swamiji of Uttaradi Matha seated inside the vehicle as it operates autonomously. The seer had visited the college and took a...
Updated: Dec 20th, 2025 A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 17 years in prison each in the Toshakhana-2 corruption case, dealing a major blow to the jailed PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) founder. The verdict was delivered by a special court of the Federal Investigation Agency...
Updated: Oct 28th, 2025 Image: Science Daily A new study has revealed that Antarctica’s melting ice may be concealing a significant climate process influencing how the planet stores carbon. The research, published in Nature Climate Change and highlighted by Science Daily under the title ‘Melting Ice is Hiding a Massive Climate Secret Beneath Antarctica’, sheds...
Updated: Dec 20th, 2025 Exiled Bangladeshi author and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen on Saturday claimed that Hindu youth Dipu Chandra Das, who was brutally killed in a mob lynching in Bangladesh, had been falsely accused of blasphemy by a Muslim coworker at his factory in Mymensingh district. She said the horrific incident unfolded despite...
Updated: Oct 22nd, 2025 As the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS moves through the inner Solar System, a new research paper by an Indian astrobiologist has proposed a systematic way to test whether such visitors could show signs of artificial activity. 3I/ATLAS is the third known object from outside our solar system to be discovered from outside...
Updated: Dec 20th, 2025 The United States carried out airstrikes against dozens of Islamic State (IS) targets across central Syria, officials said, in retaliation for a deadly attack on US personnel last week. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that the strikes targeted “ISIS fighters, infrastructure, and weapons sites” under an operation dubbed Operation Hawkeye Strike,...