Author: Shubham Somkuwar

After six months on the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida on Friday, May 6th (ISS). The spacecraft carried four astronauts, including Raja Chari, an Indian-American. Raja Chari was joined by three other astronauts from the United States and Europe, who returned from the International Space Station following a 23.5-hour flight. Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, posted a video on Twitter on Friday showing two sets of parachutes bulging open above the spacecraft in the last stages of descent, slowing its drop as it hit the…

In the midst of erecting Bollywood viewership around the world, non-Bollywood Indian films turning blockbusters has become a real thing as KGF Chapter 2 stuns the fans with some action-wrapped drama.  At the box office, Yash Raj Films’ KGF Chapter 2 is breaking records. The Prashanth Neel film recently passed the Rs 1000 crore mark, making it the second highest-grossing Hindi film behind Baahubali 2. Dangal is the third highest-grossing Hindi film. According to recent reports, the film’s net revenue is on track to surpass Rs 400 crore, making it only the second Hindi film after Rajamouli’s epic to do…

Real Madrid pulled back from the brink to set up a final clash with Liverpool, as Manchester City suffered one of the most stunning Champions League collapses. Liverpool, the six-time champions, will face Real Madrid, the 13-time champions, in a rematch of the 1981 and 2018 finals in Saint-Denis’s Stade de France on 28th May, 2022. In the semi-finals, the Reds defeated Villarreal 5-2 on aggregate. In recent years, the Champions League has produced a plethora of classic knockout ties, including the first leg of this encounter, which City should have won by a larger margin. After Bernardo Silva’s storming…

World Press Freedom Day, which will be observed on May 3, 2022, has raised several questions that have previously been voiced but ignored. Freedom of speech is a critical component of democracy, and many countries, including India, have failed to practice it. The World Press Freedom Index measures journalists’, news analysts’, and internet users’ freedom in each country. Unfortunately for India, the ranking has been steadily declining. In 2010, India was ranked 122 out of 180 countries, but dropped to 132 in 2012 and 2021, then to 142 out of 180 in 2021, and finally to 150 this year. Reporters…

According to an unsubstantiated article by the New York Post, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s worsening health as a result of long-term thyroid cancer (which the Kremlin has always denied) may force him to temporarily give over authority to Nikolai Patrushev, the former federal police commander.  According to a video posted on Saturday by the mysterious Telegram channel “General SVR,” Putin would hand over the authority of Russia’s government to Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Russian federal police’s Security Council, while he remains paralyzed during and after the procedure.  Putin has been advised by physicians that he must undergo surgery,…

Mental health is a huge problem for people all around the world, and India is no exception. When we look at the state of mental health, it appears that progress is gradual. “There can be no true physical health without mental health,” said Dr. Brock Chisholm, the first Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), in 1954. The situation has remained mostly unchanged over the past 60 years. “The ability to obtain, interpret, and use the information to enhance and preserve good health” is how health literacy is defined. Neuropsychiatric illnesses account for roughly 14% of the global disease burden.…

Three Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver were killed on April 26 when a 30-year-old female suicide bomber assaulted a minibus in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a separatist group fighting for the independence of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the bombing.  The suicide attack is part of a growing Baloch backlash that focuses on the bigger and more complex struggle for Balochistan’s independence, which has lasted decades.  According to Karachi police commissioner Ghulam Nabi Memon, the early investigation indicates that the incident was carried out by…

According to USNI News, a news and analysis website run by the US Naval Institute, Russia has trained and positioned dolphins to secure its Black Sea naval station by dodging Ukrainian undersea activities aimed at destroying Russian warships.  The Russian Navy has built two dolphin pens near the entrance to Sevastopol harbor in Crimea, shielded just inside a sea wall and alert to a hostile presence, according to photographs supplied by Maxar Technologies. The pens were relocated in February, around the time of Ukraine’s invasion.  It’s unknown whether Ukraine has any plans to attack Sevastopol with combat swimmers. Dolphins, on…

The youth, today is consciously aware of the future of themselves as well as the globe. However motivated must the multitude be, there are always some who pull you back but in times like these, one must have a disciplinary guideline. One such institute for taking the youth of all age-groups in the right academic direction is TIME. Veranda Learning Solutions Ltd, an edtech company that went public earlier this month, stated on Monday that it was buying T.I.M.E, a popular test preparation company, for Rs 287 crore. According to a business statement, the acquisition will be staged, with the…

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is already in its third month. Ukrainians, backed by the US and Europe’s active weaponry supply, have put up a strong fight, preventing Russian tanks from capturing Kyiv, the country’s capital. The two conflicting countries contribute significantly to worldwide production of barley, wheat, maize, rapeseed, sunflower seeds, and sunflower oil in the grain sector. Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter, while Ukraine is the fifth largest, with a combined share of the global wheat market of 25%. The Russian Federation was also the leading exporter of nitrogen fertilizers, the second largest provider of potassium…