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NEW DELHI: Delhi govt has carried out a scientific heat assessment of the city using satellite data to identify high-risk thermal hotspots at a time when the maximum temperature has exceeded 40°C for nearly 40 consecutive days in the past two to three years.The assessment has found that among the most sensitive areas is Ayanagar…
HYDERABAD: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into the alleged illegal surrogacy and baby selling network linked to Dr Pachipala Namratha has uncovered a vast money trail, with nearly Rs 40 crore in cash deposits, Rs 20 crore in withdrawals and 50 properties worth Rs 29.7 crore provisionally attached across Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada.According to the…
NASA maps how Earth’s glaciers speed up and slow down through the year Glaciers have never been still. They move again and again often in step with the seasons. Scientists have known this for a long time, mostly by watching individual glaciers or small regions. What has been harder to see is how this behaviour…
India is at the cusp of a historic economic journey, with government policies and reforms giving the country “wind in its sails” even as global trade uncertainties intensify, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Shaktikanta Das said on Friday.Delivering the inaugural Bibek Debroy Memorial Lecture, Das said India has emerged stronger from successive global shocks…
Stanford investigators have found the exact immune process at work in occasional instances of inflammation of the heart, or myocarditis, associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which occurred principally in young males. Their report published in Science Translational Medicine describes a two-step process involving certain proteins, and how a compound found in soy products may…
Finding your car after parking often turns into an unneeded chore. You go outdoors, open your phone, and all of a sudden every street appears the same. This is when Google Maps comes in handy without being loud. In addition to giving you directions and traffic updates, it can also remember where you parked and…
Jamshedpur: The police on Saturday said it has arrested a gang of thieves which used Google Maps to select houses in the Steel City for breaking in.East Singhbhum SSP Piyush Pandey said the gang used Google Maps to select its targets and used the technique to break into six homes across various cities in Jharkhand,…
India has identified close to 300 products across engineering goods, pharmaceuticals, agriculture and chemicals that offer significant opportunities for Indian exporters to expand their presence in the Russian market, a senior official told PTI. The exercise comes as New Delhi and Moscow work towards the bilateral trade target of $100 billion by 2030.India currently exports…
Thermal maps for daily choices: SatLeo tests street-level heat intelligence in Karnataka BENGALURU: On a summer morning, or any other day, an app might soon guide a courier or gig worker along a route not because it is shortest but because it is coolest. That is the idea behind Ahmedabad Space startup SatLeo Labs’ thermal…
The commerce ministry has begun a detailed mapping of mandatory and voluntary non-tariff measures across major global markets as part of a new effort to strengthen export quality and technical compliance.In a note, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) said it is compiling a database of regulatory requirements — including certifications, testing protocols, inspections,…
