Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 25: In the wake of traffic dislocation in Padil – Kulashekara section of Palakkad Division, some Express trains have been diverted and another was rescheduled. A release from Thiruvananthapuram Division of Southern Railway (SR) on Sunday said, Thiruvananthapuram – Lokmanyatilak Netravati Express on August 25 will be diverted to run via Shoranur, Erode, Jolarpettai...
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Washington D.C, Aug 23: The Royal Merchant Ship Titanic is now in the process of being swallowed up by metal-eating bacteria in the sea, divers found when they visited the site for the first time in 14 years. The ship which was deemed "unsinkable" was inspected five times in August by an exploration team from Triton Submarines to the spot 370 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada, and 4,000 meters...
Kalaburgi, Aug 22: District Deputy Commissioner R Venketesh Kumar has sought financial assistance of Rs 31.39 crore to take up rehabilitation works in flood ravaged Afzalpur, Kalaburagi, Jewargi and Chitapur Taluks. According to preliminary reports the loss caused due to excess release of water from river Bhima including utensils and cloths was to the tune of Rs 8.8 lakh, houses located close to...
Kasarsgod, Aug 22: The Union Health Ministry has selected the district hospital in Kanhangad near here for its award for quality in health care and overall cleanliness, an official informed on Thursday. The award by the Ministry carries a citation and a financial aid of Rs 40 lakh each for the next three years. According to the district panchayat authorities it was for the first time ever that a...
In a startling revelation, US-based cyber security firm FireEye said on Thursday that hackers broke into a leading India-based healthcare website, stealing 68 lakh records containing patient and doctor information. Without naming the website, FireEye said cyber criminals -- mostly China-based -- are directly selling data stolen from healthcare organisations and web portals globally including in...
Farrukhabad, Aug 20: Delivering babies outside the hospital or on way to the hospital has become a common occurrence in Uttar Pradesh. In the latest incident on Sunday night, a woman was forced to deliver her child in the corridor of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, in full public view, after the doctors refused to admit her, saying there were no beds available. The newly-born baby was lying in one end...
New Delhi, Aug 19: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati have developed a device that can continuously separate oil from water by strategic use of fish-scale and lotus-leaf inspired membranes. The team developed the system of materials by combining the lotus leaf-inspired super-water repellence and fish scale-mimicked underwater super-oil repellence. The membranes that...
New Delhi, Aug 19: In a significant milestone for India's Moon mission, ISRO will fire Chandrayaan2's liquid engine on Tuesday to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit. "It's tomorrow morning (tentatively between 8.30 am and 9.30 am). It's challenging," Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation K Sivan told PTI on Monday on the operation to put the spacecraft in an orbit around the Moon...
Wellington, Aug 14: The fossilised remains of a huge penguin almost the size of an adult human have been found in New Zealand's South Island, scientists announced Wednesday. The giant waddling sea bird stood 1.6 metres (63 inches) high and weighed 80 kilograms, about four times heavier and 40cm taller than the modern Emperor penguin, researchers said. Named "crossvallia waiparensis", it hunted off...
The ongoing US-China trade war has done something good for the deep-pocketed Huawei: Create its own ecosystem where it does not need to look at the US tech giants for powering connected devices. HarmonyOS -- a new microkernel-based, distributed operating system designed to deliver a cohesive user experience across all devices and scenarios -- is one such move which may threaten the dominance of...