Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said it began releasing a second batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea on Thursday after the first round of discharges ended smoothly. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings said workers activated a pump to dilute the treated water…
Read MoreA family court in Delhi on Wednesday reportedly granted divorce to Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan from his wife Aesha Mukerji. The court found that the opening batsman was subjected to mental cruelty by Aesha Mukerji, reports said. The court accepted all the allegations levelled against Mukerji by Shikhar…
Read MoreMorocco, Spain and Portugal have been named hosts of the 2030 football World Cup, while Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay will host the opening matches to mark the tournament’s centenary, FIFA said on Wednesday. The joint bid from Morocco, Portugal and Spain was the sole candidate to host the…
Read MoreThe Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports (FIFS), on Wednesday, urged the government not to impose a 28 per cent GST on online gaming with retrospective effect, as it is discouraging investors to put in their money into this booming industry. The GST Council, in its meeting in August,…
Read MoreNational Dairy Development Board chairman Dr Meenesh Shah has said that the NDDB intends to develop a dairy value chain in Ladakh that would provide profitable returns to the producers from milk business. He was speaking at the inauguration of the newly refurbished dairy plant of Ladakh Dairy…
Read MoreLast week, Tracxn, a market intelligence platform, unveiled its Geo Quarterly Report India Tech – Q3, 2023. According to the report, India’s tech space is seeing a decline in funding every quarter, with a third consecutive drop in funding in Q3 of 2023, making it the least funded…
Read More24-year-old Harry Brook is likely to make his World Cup debut for England replacing Ben Stokes in Thursday’s opener against New Zealand in Ahmedabad. The defending champions’ star all-rounder Ben Stokes is nursing a minor hip injury. England sacrificed opener Jason Roy to accommodate Harry Brook, who has…
Read MoreA 19-year-old female soldier of the British Army killed herself after facing relentless sexual harassment from one of her bosses. Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was found dead at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire in December 2021, a BBC report reads. An Army investigation report, which came to…
Read MoreEnvironmentalists argue that commercial planting of trees to offset carbon emissions might come with costs for biodiversity and other ecosystem functions. Instead, they advocate for conserving and restoring intact ecosystems in their study published in the journal Cell Press. “Current and new policy should not promote ecosystem degradation…
Read MoreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, and Alexei I. Ekimov for their pioneering research on quantum dots —minuscule particles that have revolutionised the field of nanotechnology. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in its announcement, hailed the trio’s research for…
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