The Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio will return over 100 stolen Indian artefacts. These antiquities were donated to the museum by Subhash Kapoor who is being investigated by US Departments of justice and homeland security, reports an English daily. According to the reports, Kapoor donated over 115 objects. Some of them were from Gupta…
Briny water flows during the summer months on Mars, raising the possibility that the planet long thought to be arid could support life today, scientists analysing data from an NASA spacecraft said on Monday. Although the source and the chemistry of the water are unknown, the discovery will change scientists’ thinking about whether the planet…
NEW DELHI: At least fourteen Indians were among 717 people killed and over 860 others injured in a stampede on Thursday when Haj pilgrims jostled their way to perform symbolic stoning of the devil in Mina at the holy Mecca, marking the culmination of the annual pilgrimage. HAJ TRAGEDY: MEA helpline numbers for Indians “Our…
Some evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole was discovered by an Indo-American-led team of astronomers from the University of Maryland (UMD) and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The mass black hole is said to be about 5,000 times the mass of the Sun and will probably be an additional candidate to the list of…
Washington : The US space agency is seeking innovative ideas from students for generating a novel technology that can help land heavy manned spacecrafts safely and swiftly on the surface of Red Planet. Called inflatable spacecraft heat shields or hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (HIAD) technology, this will generate a new class of relatively lightweight deployable…
