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Indian stock markets hit for six when Indian cricketers lose ODIs
05 Oct 2010
While a win by the Indian cricket team has no statistically significant upward impact on stock market returns, a loss generates a significant downward movement in the stock market, reveals new research
GM developing car keys to predict driver action
04 Sep 2010
A versatile, clean and efficient way to enhance widespread application of carbon nanotubes
31 Aug 2010
Dr Martin Green, father of solar cell technology, awarded Eureka Prize
19 Aug 2010
Coincidenataly, Dr Green's name has become, unwittingly, synonymous with green power generation. His ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence at the University of New South Wales in Australia holds the world record for solar cell efficiency
Cloned meat in market raises concerns in UK
05 Aug 2010
Tata Chem's low-cost water purifier in WSJ's best Asian innovations shortlist
By By Dhara Tripathi | 30 Jul 2010
Destruction of key compound of ozone detected
29 Jul 2010
For the first time, scientists successfully measure ClOOCl (a chlorine compound that affects ozone depletion) levels in the ozone layer
Metabolic disease: researchers find cause and possible cure
16 Jul 2010
An international team of scientists has discovered the gene mutation responsible for a condition in which eye and brain development is severely disrupted in affected infants
Solar powered plane completes night long flight over Switzerland
10 Jul 2010
The Solar Impulse cruised at a height of 28,000 feet and a top speed of 78 mph, in a night long flight, in what, according to project coordinators was the longest test flight of a piloted, solar-powered aircraft
Model helps search for moon dust fountains
By Bill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 18 Jun 2010
BP uses Kevin Costner’s centrifuge machines to clean oil spill
16 Jun 2010
After seeing the effects of the Valdez spill in Alaska on TV, Costner put in $24 million of his money in 1995 to fund a team of scientists, including his brother Dan Costner, to develop a technology that could deal with huge oil spills
Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa returns from seven-year odyssey
14 Jun 2010
The mission nevertheless has proved enlightening as the spacecraft has shown that the 535-metre asteroid is not a solid body, but rather a lump of rubble resulting from an earlier asteroid collision
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As costs of saying final goodbyes rise UK families resort to crowdfunding to pay for funerals
By Axel Miller | 16 Jan 2025
The cost of saying a final goodbye to loved ones in the UK has reached a grim new high, leaving families grappling with unexpected financial burdens.
The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)
The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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