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Special Desk Viruses survive and some have survived 15000 years. Scientists who study glacier ice have found viruses in two ice samples extracted from Tibetan Plateau in China. Most of those viruses survived because they had remained frozen, and are unlike any viruses that have been discovered till now. The …

On 26 July, 2005, around 2:00pm, as the people of the ‘happening city’ of Mumbai were going about their business, it was hit by a severe storm. It was the kind of storm that the city had never experienced in a century. It is normal for the city to receive …

Special Desk Usually building collapse news are forgotten within 24-hours but not in this case where rescuers could finish the search for bodies a month after Florida tower collapse. Firefighters say their search for bodies in the rubble of the collapsed Florida tower block has finally come to an end. …

Dr. Seema Javed Heat and humidity levels hit extreme levels this week as Tokyo Olympics start today. The Japan’s environment agency has issued a Heat Stroke Alerts. Data suggests that the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature – a measure combining heat and humidity, used by organisers to assess safety – hit …

Special Desk  World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) next stage plan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has been dumped by China. WHO wanted to audit laboratories in the area the virus was first identified including Wuhan labs from where the virus is said to have been ‘leaked.’ But China …

Special Desk Even before Tokyo Olympics could actually begin yet another controversy surrounded the event, as its creative director, was removed, with just a day left for the opening ceremony. He was also the director for the closing ceremony and has lost that position too. A footage of Kentaro Kobayashi …

The leading CEOs of the global wind industry have united to call on G20 members to show leadership in the climate crisis by raising national ambitions and urgently laying out concrete plans for increased wind energy production to replace fossil fuels. Representing members of the Global Wind Energy Coalition(GWEC) for …

Special Desk Dubai Princess Latifa is also one among those in the list of phone hacking spyware Pegasus. Daughter of the ruler of Dubai, Latifa’s phone numbers reportedly were found as part of an investigation into the phone hacking spyware. IN India too several politicians and journalists are reportedly to …

Jubilee News Desk Mallika has grown in popularity in Lucknow’s posh Gomti Nagar area and in other pockets too of the state capital. Not so surprisingly, Mallika fans are willing to pay three times the price of Dashehari. At the end of the Dashehari season, the mango varieties enjoyed in …

The frequency, duration and intensity of cyclones in the Arabian Sea have increased significantly, while there has been a slight decrease in their frequency in the Bay of Bengal according to a new study by scientists at Pune’s Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology. The paper claims that the frequency of …