People wait at Gare de Lille-Flandres train station after major disruption on France’s high-speed train network | PHOTO: REUTERS 5 min read Last Updated : Jul 26 2024 | 10:23 PM IST Trains to and from Paris, including the international Eurostar service, were hit by what authorities called a “massive attack aimed at paralyzing … Read more
The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok is battling a potential US ban with the signature tools of American democracy — lawyers, lobbyists and money. TikTok has deployed Washington power brokers and $1,500-an-hour attorneys to fend off a new law barring the app unless its Beijing-based parent, ByteDance Ltd., divests. With a $4.8 million … Read more
4 min read Last Updated : Jul 26 2024 | 10:44 PM IST If former US President Donald Trump returns to the White House in 2025 – and most betting markets still have the odds at 60 per cent or better— will he achieve the weak dollar that both he and his running mate, … Read more
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the Agniveers who return after serving the country will be given weightage in UP Police and PAC force. 4 min read Last Updated : Jul 26 2024 | 10:21 PM IST Agniveers will be granted reservation in government jobs in Uttarakhand upon their return after serving … Read more
OnePlus Nord 4 is presented by the company as its first smartphone in the 5G era to feature an all-metal unibody design. This is assumed significant because a full metal body generally presents challenges such as network reception issues, heating problems, and performance drops due to thermal throttling. So, do these problems persist with … Read more
6 min read Last Updated : Jul 26 2024 | 2:38 PM IST An analysis by Bankbazaar has revealed a significant increase in long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax liabilities for property owners across India following the removal of indexation benefits in the Union Budget 2024. Indexation is a method used to adjust the … Read more
Dark matter can provide supermassive black holes the brakes they need to bring them crashing together at the end of a long spiraling journey to their fate. According to new mathematical modeling, a puzzle known as the finite parsec problem can be solved by the presence of self-interacting dark matter particles that remain clustered around … Read more
A surprising technique has helped scientists observe how the Earth’s oceans are changing, and it’s not using specialized robots or artificial intelligence. It is the labeling of seals. Several species of seals live around and in Antarctica and regularly dive more than 100 meters in search of their next meal. These seals are experts at … Read more
Interns from the SCaN Internship Project visiting NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. Credits: NASA For more than a decade, graduates of NASA’s SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) internship project have played important roles in expanding the agency’s long-term vision for exploration. For National Intern Day on Thursday, July 25, former program interns … Read more
This artist’s concept shows what the universe might have looked like when it was less than a billion years old, about 7 percent of its current age. Star formation voraciously consumed the primordial hydrogen, churning out multitudes of stars at an unprecedented rate. NASA’s Roman Nancy Grace Space Telescope will look back at the early … Read more