India spanked Pakistan 6-2 to clinch the eight Junior Men’s Asia Cup at Wisma Belia Stadium in Kuantan, Malaysia on Sunday. Rising to the occasion with their traditional hockey play and Harmanpreet Singh’s hat-trick, India spanked Pakistan 6-2 to clinch the eight Junior Men’s Asia Cup at the Wisma Belia Stadium on Sunday. India started…
BOSTON (CBS Connecticut)– Sleeping directly after learning new information may improve your memory, according to a new study. Brigham and Women’s Hospital researchers closely evaluated 14 participants and found that they were substantially better at remembering information like faces and names of people if they were able to get up to eight hours of sleep afterward….
In the IAS main exam, for Paper I and Paper II of the Optional subject, there is a choice, so that you don’t have to attempt all questions. Therefore it is important to read the question papers carefully right at the beginning. Each question should be read at least twice before deciding which questions are…
PUNE: City youth Abishek Pant, a final-year computer science student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, has bagged a job with a whopping Rs 2-crore annual package, including stock option, at Google Inc. The 22-year-old, who finished a three-month internship at Google California earlier this year, went through another rigorous round of interviews before…
New Delhi: A super-fast alternative to WiFi known as ‘LiFi’ has just been tested in the real world and has been proven capable of sending data at up to 224 GB per second and has the potential to revolutionize internet usage. Which means you can download 18 movies of 1.5 GB each second. LiFi, or light fidelity,…
Mark Zuckerberg today through a Facebook post announced that all Reliance subscribers across India can now access free Internet, for limited basic services, via Facebook’s Free Basics. In October last year, Facebook had launched Internet.org to provide basic Internet services for free of cost to Reliance customers in six Indian states- Tamil Nadu, Mahararashtra, Andhra…
Qatar was hit by heavy flooding today causing gridlock on the desert country’s roads as well as closures of schools and the US embassy. Overnight rain made many roads near impassable for commuters amid reports on social media that even Doha’s Hamad International Airport was affected, due to leaks at the estimated USD 17 billion…
A twisting skyscraper that towers over the Basra province in Iraq could become the world’s tallest building, if the plans come to fruition. AMBS Architects, which was founded by Iraqi architect Ali Mousawi, have designed a 230-storey building as part of a new masterplan for the city. The overarching plan, commissioned by the Basra Governorate, aims to maximise the…
ANTARCTIC temperatures have cooled over the past six years, according to US space agency NASA. An intensive scientific study of both Earth’s poles has found that from 2009 to 2016 overall temperature has dropped in the southern polar region. NASA’s Operation IceBridge is an airborne survey of polar ice and has finalised two overlapping research…
New Delhi: Hand-written passports of Indian citizens are no longer valid from Wednesday as per government’s directive. The government had asked those having hand-written passports to get machine-readable ones having bar codes by 24 November. The government had decided to discontinue hand-written passports in accordance with recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to…
