Author: Prishita Tahilramani

This weekend in northern Scotland is going to be quite eventful as monster hunters are gathering for what is being called as the biggest search for the Loch Ness monster in 50 years. Volunteers will keep an eye on the lake’s surface for “inexplicable” movements during the expedition. This expedition comes after several significant efforts to spot the creature and more than a thousand independent sightings. The Loch Ness Monster: Timeline The monster first appeared in the accounts of the biography of a Catholic missionary from Ireland, St.Columba, who traveled to Scotland. The British Library reports that the story claims…

It has been reported by North Korea that their second attempt to place a spy satellite in orbit on Thursday failed. The North’s state news agency informed the reason for the failure of Thursday’s launch was because of an error in the rocket booster that happened during a three-stage flight of the rocket. The second attempt came just months later after Pyongyang’s first attempt crashed into the ocean shortly after the launch. Despite, the failures, the space authorities have vowed to try again in October. North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un has made it his top regime priority to develop…

Japan is all set to begin releasing treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean from Thursday. This decision came in as defiance of opposition from domestic communities, international countries, and some scientists. Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, after meeting with his cabinet on Tuesday, instructed the plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) for a swift preparation per the plans approved by nuclear regulators for the discharge of water. He informed that the release would be initiated on Thursday if the “weather and ocean conditions permitted” The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the…

Early on Wednesday, a drone hit a building under construction in central Moscow said the city mayor Sergei Sobyanin. AFP reported this as the sixth straight night of aerial attacks on Russia’s capital region. The mayor further informed through his telegram channel that earlier, the Russian military downed two more drones by “air defense system” in the Mozhaisk and Khimki districts of the Moscow region. About the Attack on Moscow: Buidling destroyed by drone attack in Moscow. Image source: The Guardian RIA reported, “At 3,00 Moscow time, a loud explosion was heard, and a little later, smoke rose from the…