Bhageria Industries is expecting to incur capex of Rs 100 crore in next 3 years from internal accruals. Besides, the company received consent from MPCB for manufacturing of Sulphuric Acid & Derivatives and expected to be commissioned by October 2019. Engineering work has also been finalised. Bhageria Industries was established …
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Coal India to increase tenure of FSA with steel industry to 10 years
Coal India has decided to increase the tenure of fuel supply pacts to be signed with the steel industry to 10 years in a bid to reduce dependence of steel sector on imported coal. The new fuel supply agreement (FSA) tenure would be applicable from the fourth tranche of the …
Read More »Egyptians Started Treating Water 1500 Years Ago – Belgium was the first country in 1902
The Egyptians were the first people to record methods for recycling and treating water. These records date back more than 1,500 years to 400 A.D. They indicate that the most common ways of cleaning water were by boiling it over a fire, heating it in the sun, or by dipping …
Read More »Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. The strange creature called Dickinsonia, which grew up to 1.4 metres in length and …
Read More »Southeast Asian population boomed 4,000 years ago
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have uncovered a previously unconfirmed population boom across South East Asia that occurred 4,000 years ago, thanks to a new method for measuring prehistoric population growth. Using the new population measurement method, which utilises human skeletal remains, they have been able to prove …
Read More »Ancient bird bones redate human activity in Madagascar by 6,000 years
Analysis of bones, from what was once the world’s largest bird, has revealed that humans arrived on the tropical island of Madagascar more than 6,000 years earlier than previously thought — according to a study published today, 12 September 2018, in the journal Science Advances. A team of scientists led …
Read More »2007 Hyderabad twin blasts: Justice after 11 years
The Hyderabad blasts victims have finally got justice. A metropolitan court on Monday pronounced quantum of punishment for terrorists convicted in 2007 twin blasts case. 2 have been granted capital punishment, while one has been given life term. MD Akbar Ismail Chowdhari and Aneeq Shafique Sayeed were given the capital …
Read More »2007 Hyderabad Blasts: Justice after 11 years
The Hyderabad blasts victims have finally got justice. A metropolitan court on Monday pronounced quantum of punishment for terrorists convicted in 2007 twin blasts case. 2 have been granted capital punishment, while one has been given life term. MD Akbar Ismail Chowdhari and Aneeq Shafique Sayeed were given the capital …
Read More »Egypt sentences 75 to death over clashes, photojournalist gets 5 years
Amnesty International said the sentences, linked to clashes in 2013 between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, amounted to “a mockery of justice”. Photographer Mahmoud Abu Zeid was among 739 defendants on trial, most of them charged with killing police and vandalising property. The journalist, widely …
Read More »Cornea donation in 2017 was highest in 52 years: National Eye Bank chairman
“As many as 1,285 corneal transplant surgeries were conducted last year, which amounts to a utilisation rate of 70 per cent,” he said. A window of “six to eight hours” after the death of a person is considered the “optimum time” on an average for donation of eyes for transplant …
Read More »Next 5 years predicted to be abnormally hot
This summer’s world-wide heatwave makes 2018 a particularly hot year. As will be the next few years, according to a study led by Florian Sévellec, a CNRS researcher at the Laboratory for Ocean Physics and Remote Sensing (LOPS) (CNRS/IFREMER/IRD/University of Brest) and at the University of Southampton, and published in …
Read More »Mars reaches its closest approach to Earth in 15 years
It is the closest the two planets have been to one another since the historic 55.6 million kilometers close approach in August 2003, the agency said. Team members from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory gathered at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California, to view the big event. The next similar close approach …
Read More »Turkey ends state of emergency after two years
Under the state of emergency, tens of thousands of people were arrested or dismissed from their jobs. However, the government has decided against extending it again after seven three-month renewals. The decision comes weeks after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won re-election. During the campaign, opposition candidates said that the first …
Read More »Modric, Kane, Mbappe win top honours at this year’s FIFA World Cup
Modric won Man-Of-The-Match three times in Croatia’s seven games in Russia, but even the Real Madrid midfielder was powerless to stop France’s firepower and the rise of 19-year-old Kylian Mbappe, who won the young player of the tournament award for scoring his fourth goal of the competition in the final. …
Read More »Indian scientists discover exoplanet 600 light years away
The discovery was made by measuring the mass of the planet using the indigenously designed “PRL Advance Radial-velocity Abu-sky Search” (PARAS) spectrograph integrated with 1.2m Telescope at PRL’s Gurushikhar Observatory in Mount Abu. The discovery is important for understanding the formation mechanism of sub-Saturn and super-Neptune like planets that are …
Read More »At this year’s FIFA WC, Belgium determined to live up to great expectations
A team who sit third in the FIFA rankings and who boast what is frequently labelled a golden generation featuring the likes of Eden Hazard and Kevin De Bruyne have come to Russia with a considerable weight of expectation on their shoulders. They are strongly fancied to progress to the …
Read More »Walking faster may add years to your life
Walking at an average pace was found to be associated with a 20 per cent risk reduction for all-cause mortality compared with walking at a slow pace, while walking at a brisk or fast pace was associated with a risk reduction of 24 per cent. A similar result was found …
Read More »Air India marks 70 years since 1st India-UK flight
The national carrier is inviting members of the Indian diaspora in Britain to share their memories of the airline in its early days. The iconic first flight, on a Super Constellation aircraft, took off from Mumbai on June 8 and landed in London via Cairo and Geneva on June 10, …
Read More »4 years of Modi govt: Better environment for women and children have always been govt’s priority
From making laws tougher when offences are committed to ensuring greater effort at locating missing children, the Minister had much to talk about. Union Ministers have been presenting a report card of their Ministries before the public through DD News, on the Modi govt completing 4 years in office. Women …
Read More »4 Years Modi Government: One-Stop centres for women in distress
Talat’s marriage landed in trouble but her mother Firoza did not give it up and reached this Center. WATCH VIDEO | 4 Years Modi Government: One-Stop centres for women in distress The centre provides medical assistance, police assistance; counseling and legal assistance and all are free of cost. The best …
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