Author: Shubham Somkuwar

The discussion about who is better at full strength, Liverpool or Manchester City, will rage on for some time, but the Reds are beginning to build an enticing case for having the stronger team. Liverpool raced into a 3-0 first-half lead thanks to an Ibrahima Konate header and a Sadio Mane brace, before City rallied back with goals from Jack Grealish and Bernardo Silva in the second half, nearly forcing extra time. Liverpool will play Chelsea or Crystal Palace in the FA Cup final on May 14 for the first time since 2012. The two teams will meet in the…

The world has been witnessing a war crime for more than 50 days, and it is only intensifying. To its credit, Ukraine has not given up hope of retaining its cherished nationality, while Russian, on the other hand, has escalated its aggression following a shipwreck on Thursday. The Moskva, Russia’s Black Sea fleet commander who was heading the country’s naval operations against the East European nation, was damaged by an explosion on Wednesday and sank the next day. While Moscow blamed the ship’s explosion on an explosion of the ship’s ammunition, Kyiv claimed the blast was caused by an attack…

The Union government is preparing a Rs 19,300 crore forestry intervention initiative to rejuvenate 13 major Indian rivers. The Indian government’s environment minister, Bhupender Yadav, has presented detailed project reports on the rejuvenation of 13 major rivers: Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, Sutlej, Yamuna, Brahmaputra, Luni, Narmada, Godavari, Mahanadi, Krishna, and Cauvery. The Indian Council of Forestry Research & Education, situated in Dehradun, prepared the reports, which were supported by the environment ministry’s National Afforestation & Eco-development Board. The 13 rivers that run through the country, mostly in the Himalayan and peninsular regions, cover a total basin area of 18,90,110 square…

The statement by Union Home Minister Amit Shah that Indians everywhere should converse in Hindi rather than English has enraged opposition political parties and citizens. Why is the Bhartiya Janata Party attempting to impose a language used in some north and central Indian states on those who speak Tamil, Bengali, or Marathi – and do so proudly —? Why is there such a quick shift toward ‘One Nation, One Bhasha’ in such a diverse, multilingual country? Tamil Nadu BJP officials have stated that learning Hindi is not required to prove one’s Indian citizenship and that the ancient Tamil language could…

The world is preparing for the most-awaited FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar. While the tournament is yet to kick off, football lovers have been seen analyzing and predicting the teams that could make it to the golden trophy. Even more interesting are the documentaries and biographies of our favorite players, which can be seen on various digital platforms, including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and many more. Surviving in this digital world might be difficult for some, but FIFA, the international football governing body, has convinced football enthusiasts that it can rival the best of OTTs with a brand-new launch…

Auroral activities are People have always loved to watch science-fiction movies, which present spectacular glares in the sky, strangely even more than fireworks in reality. Like floating around in the cosmic lights, this presentation of luminosity has overwhelmed the skywatchers and made them yearn to witness the Aurora Borealis, a natural phenomenon takin As we all know, the sun gives us light, but it also contains an expanding atmosphere made up of charged particles and magnetic fields. The high-speed solar wind passes through Earth, but the planet’s magnetic field (consider a huge bar magnet with geographic north and south) can…

Albert Park hosted a sell-out crowd for the first Australian Grand Prix since 2019 – hoping to witness enough twists and turns worthy of a ‘Warney’ bowling spell, at just a distance of five kilometers away from the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where the late, great Shane Warne enthralled a hundred thousand on any given weekend. On Sunday afternoon, they were treated to another exhilarating show by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) after an action-packed free practice and qualifying session. Image Source: scoll.in Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was on pole against two Red Bulls – Max Verstappen in P2 and Sergio…

After the 193-member United Nations General Assembly voted on Thursday to adopt a resolution on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia was suspended from the UN Human Rights Council. With 93 votes in favour, 24 against, and 58 abstentions, the resolution titled “Suspension of the Russian Federation’s rights of membership in the Human Rights Council” was passed. Those abstaining were India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka and UAE. In the Ukraine conflict, the Western-led draught resolution voiced “grave concern” about claims of “gross and systematic violations and abuses of…

NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed on Mars in February of last year, has collected and sent for the first time interesting sound recordings from the Red Planet. Researchers have now analyzed these recordings and discovered some surprising facts about how sound behaves on Mars. Researchers conducted the first acoustic analysis of noises from Mars in a new study published in the journal Nature. Sound travels slower on Mars than it does on Earth, according to an international team of researchers. Perseverance’s mechanical whine and click in the Martian wind, the buzz of rotors on the Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, and the…

Philosophical notions have always influenced physics, and we can see that those ideas have only come from Western thinkers throughout its history. However, Buddhist thinkers half a globe away were grappling with many of the same issues, such as the nature of time and causation, or how awareness relates to the world.  Because they came from a distinct historical perspective, these Buddhists looked for different kinds of answers to the same issues that their Western counterparts did. In this way, there may be insights from Buddhist philosophy’s vast history that are useful to physicists working on their own frontiers.  Two…