Republic Day: How India’s military parade became a spectacle A day before India was set to celebrate its 73rd Republic Day, government officials issued an unusual clarification: this year’s parade would not feature a song from Bollywood. The parade has in fact never included a Bollywood track but the government felt compelled to explain because of…
The government’s receipt from disinvestment proceeds in the next financial year beginning April has been pegged at Rs 65,000 crore, lower than the current year’s estimated mobilization of Rs 78,000 crore. With budgeted disinvestment targets rarely met, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fourth Budget drastically reduced the receipts to an achievable Rs 78,000 crore in the…
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget 2022, the fourth budget of Modi 2.0, today. There were a host of measures aimed at boosting growth amid high & rising inflation and continuing Covid uncertainties. There, however, were remarkably few real changes to the personal income tax structure in a year that had seen demands…
Australian Open 2022: Rafael Nadal reveals being ‘physically destroyed’ An exhausted and emotionally drained Rafael Nadal walked gingerly towards an exercise mat in the players’ gym at the Australian Open and collapsed on it in a heap. Hardly surprising given the 35-year-old had just spent five hours and 24 minutes on the Rod Laver Arena…
Kashi Vishwanath Temple: Corridor of faith The inauguration of the new Kashi Vishwanath Temple corridor by the prime minister at a cost of Rs. 800 crore is a boon for pilgrims and a boost for the BJP with polls nigh. In February 2018, Mayank Agarwal, a 42-year-old bank worker from Lucknow’s Rajajipuram, had taken his…
How 5G Wireless Service Puts Airplanes at Risk New high-speed cellphone services have raised concerns of interference with aircraft operations, particularly as aircraft are landing at airports. The radio spectrum ranges from 3 hertz to 3,000 gigahertz and is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The Federal Aviation Administration has assured Americans that most commercial aircraft are…
A banking-fraud trojan that has been targeting Android users for three years was update to create even more grief. Besides draining bank accounts, the trojan can now activate a kill switch that performs a factory reset . Brata was first documented in a post from security firm Kaspersky. Inwhich reported that the Android malware had…
“How can I be the best ‘me’ possible?” It’s a question you’ve probably asked yourself, at some time or another. And you reaally want change. Seven questions to help us decide if a new challenge is worth pursuing. Perhaps you’re considering a job or role change, starting or buying a business, getting married, or becoming a…
Could the thorny question of human consciousness be answered by simple electromagnetic waves? One improbably dualist scientist believes so. They suggests the human mind is a combination of physical matter and electromagnetic field. This is a big question, and the proposed answer here is controversial. The University of Surrey’s Johnjoe McFadden Research The University of…
At a fundamental level, nobody knows whether gravity is truly quantum in nature. A novel experiment strongly hints that it is. Three of our fundamental forces of nature — the electromagnetic and strong and weak nuclear forces — known to be quantum in nature. However, the oldest known fundamental force, gravity, has only been shown…
