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Findings from India’s Chandrayaan to provide new understanding of lunar surface

London, September 18 (ANI): India’s Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) has gathered data for a total of 30 solar flares, giving the most accurate measurements to date of magnesium, aluminum, silicon, calcium, [...]

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Police seize hundreds of stolen NATO wireless sets in Quetta

Quetta, Sep 10(ANI): Quetta police has arrested three people and seized hundreds of wireless sets, which were stolen from NATO supply containers, during a raid on a warehouse in Pakistan’s Spini area.

Earlier, militants had burnt eight NATO tankers in Quetta and fled with the biggest haul of wireless devices.

The Superintendent of Police of [...]

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Indian scientist discovers X-ray bursts from neutron stars can help reveal their size

Sydney, September 8 (ANI): In a new research, an Indian scientist has determined that the pattern of x-rays generated by neutron stars may reveal their true size.

According to a report by ABC News, Dr Sudip Bhattacharyya of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India led the research.

Neutron stars are the densest objects in the [...]

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Meet the dog that survived despite eating 1000 magnets!

Melbourne, Aug 31 (ANI): A dog ate almost 1000 magnets, but is still alive after an emergency surgery.

The X-ray of Polly’s stomach showed a clump of magnets in it, when its owner Cathy James took it to vet Dr. Glen Hastie at Sunbury Animal Hospital, after it fell seriously ill.

The owner of the blue heeler [...]

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Electricity still a far-fetched dream for Gurez valley

Srinagar, Aug. 30 (ANI): Electricity remains to be a distant dream for the residents of Gurez valley of Jammu and Kashmir despite ample water resources existing in the region.

Consequently, diesel run generators have been sole means of power, a situation that has prevailed and prolonged in the region for decades.

In contrast, Gurez valley is the [...]

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Orissa victim of medical negligence gets monetary relief

New Delhi, Aug. 26 (ANI): The Government of Orissa has complied with the NHRC’s recommendations and paid a monetary relief of five lakh rupees to Mrs. Binapani Khatua of Orissa, a victim of medical negligence due to which she suffered severe pain for four years and now cannot bear children.

The Commission, on the basis [...]

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Bizarre newt uses ribs as poisonous stings to protect itself against predators

London, August 22 (ANI): Scientists report that a newt has evolved a bizarre and gruesome defence mechanism to protect itself against predators, by pushing out its ribs until they pierce through its body, exposing a row of [...]

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Nanoflares cause Sun’s atmosphere to heat up by millions of degrees

Washington, August 15 (ANI): Solar physicists at NASA have confirmed that small, sudden bursts of heat and energy, called nanoflares, cause temperatures in the thin, translucent gas of the sun’s atmosphere to reach millions of degrees.

The findings were presented by James Klimchuk, an [...]

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3D imaging sheds light on 300 million year old fossilized spider-like species

London, August 5 (ANI): Scientists have used 3D imaging that included thousands of X-ray scans to shed light on 300 million year old fossilized spider-like species.

According to a report by BBC News, the two species, Cryptomartus hindi and Eophrynus prestvicii, are closely related to modern spiders.

The 3D images show that C. hindi grasped [...]

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Gandhi to get cath lab soon

HYDERABAD: There is some good news for the ill-equipped Gandhi Hospital. The cardiac department, which finds it difficult to handle heart-related cases, will finally get a new cath lab in the next three months.
Even after two years since the angiography machine (takes X Ray images of blood vessels) in the cath lab became defunct, it [...]

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Power crisis shuts down Kolkata

KOLKATA: The entire CESC system collapsed on Sunday evening the first time in its history plunging the city into darkness and distress in the
middle of a heat spell. The unprecedented crisis blacked out over 2 million homes in Kolkata.
Hospitals were in darkness for at least an hour. Water supply was cut off all evening. There [...]

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