Author: Harroop Kaur

The “heroic” resistance by the Ukrainian military and civilians of Mariupol continues as the European Union’s top diplomat accused Russia of committing a “major war crime” that has killed thousands and left the city in rubble, according to the authorities. On Monday, a top diplomat, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, criticised Russia’s actions in Mariupol and characterised them as “massive war crimes” as the bloc discussed additional sanctions against Russia. Borrell stated that what is occurring in Mariupol is a massive war crime, destroying and bombing anything and everything and killing people in a discriminatory manner. He added…

Black holes have long been regarded as the villains of physics, capable of absorbing anything within their gravitational pull, be it radiation, stars, humans, or anything else. now this fear might have come to an end as scientists have come up with a theory of quantum hair that could be a possible solution to Stephen Hawkings’ black hole paradox. What is a black hole? Albert Einstein, the father of modern physics, first predicted the existence of black holes in 1916 using his general theory of relativity. However, he did not name it. The name was later given by American astronomer…

An appalling incident took place during the wee hours of Saturday 19th March. A 79-year-old Kerala man allegedly killed his son and three others by setting the house ablaze owing to a property dispute. A 79-year-old man named Hamid murdered his son, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters by charring them to death. The victims were Shibu, alias Mohammed Shafi (the son), aged 50, his wife Sheeba, aged 43, and their two teen daughters, Mehru, 16, and Afna, 13. The incident took place around 12:45 am in the Cheenikuzhy area of Idukki district, Kerala. Allegedly, he doused the house with petrol before…

During the advancing military attack by Russia on Ukraine, hundreds of innocent people have died, a total of 816 (as of March 17th, 2022) to be precise. One of these innocent lives was that of a 21-year-old medical student from Karnataka, India. Naveen Shekarappa Gyanagoudar, an Indian student studying at the Kharkiv National Medical University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, was killed in Russian shelling while standing in a queue to buy food. On Saturday, Naveen’s father informed him that they had decided to donate Naveen’s body for medical research. The 21-year-old MBBS student was a resident of Haveri district in Karnataka. He…

On Tuesday the police in the capital city of Belgium, Brussels, closed a 2020 cold case after arresting the perpetrator following his confession. The accused is a 37-year-old man named, Gunter Uwents who confessed to murdering his primary school teacher by stabbing her a total of 101 times. According to the culprit, his motive for the crime was that when he was a seven-year-old schoolboy in the early 1990s, his teacher named Maria Verlinden, the victim of the case, used to make disgrace him with her comments, making him feel humiliated and that he never got over those bitter sentiments.…

Every year, corps are destroyed for a variety of reasons, one of which is a lack of water. Especially in regions like North Africa, the Sahelian region, and Africa south of the Equator, which have particularly arid zones, farmers have to use different irrigation techniques such as burring networks of irrigation tubes and covering the ground with plastic sheets, but these are less useful and more harmful as they are expensive and create waste. But now, scientists have discovered a new way to save farmers from all the hassle. According to a study published in ACS Agriculture Science & Technology,…

With all the plastic pollution as sayings like “say no to plastic “going on, A new type of polysaccharide, which is comparable to the biopolymer chitin, which can replace some plastic has been discovered by researchers publishing in the journal ACS Central Science. The enzyme used to make this polysaccharide was previously unknown. So, what is a polysaccharide? Polysaccharide is made up of two-word, poly-meaning many and saccharide-meaning sugar. Therefore, we can say that these are polymeric hydrocarbons made up of several sugar molecules bonded together. (e.g.: starch, cellulose, or glycogen). These are found to be the most abundant biopolymers…

As the counting for the Vidhan Sabha elections of 2022 that took place in Uttarakhand on the 14th February is going on, The Bhartiya Janta Party is seen taking a lead by bagging majority of the seats out of the 70-constituency state. Harish Rawat of the congress is seen trailing behind with 22 seats. The Aam Admi Party can be seen giving up with the voting electorate being in single digits. According to election statistics, the BJP has a commanding lead in Uttarakhand, with its candidates leading in 43 assembly seats and the main opposition Congress leading in 24. In…

The biggest and the most awaited assembly elections of 2022 are over and the counting of votes has begun at 8 am. though it could take hours before the final result can be announced, an initial trend can be seen. The biggest and the most awaited assembly elections of 2022 are over and the counting of votes has begun at 8 am. Though it would take hours before the final result can be announced, to assess the initial trend. According to the current trend, the BJP is on track to win a clear victory in Uttara Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Manipur…

On Tuesday, thousands and thousands of people watched Raja Charni, an Indian-American astronaut conduct his first spacewalk along with flight engineer Kayla Barren. Who is Raja Charni? Raja Chari is an Indian-American astronaut. He is a native of IO and a 1999 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in both Astronautical Engineering and Engineering Science. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology awarded him a master’s degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics before he went on to complete the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. Currently, he is acting as captain of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission to the…