The Chinese dominated the silk trade for a long time by trading processed yarn but never sharing silkworms or eggs with the outside world. The monopoly broke around 6th century CE when silkworm eggs were smuggled out of China. It was not until another 1,200 years later that Bengaluru began its journey towards becoming an…
Kolkata: City-based Jupiter Wagons is setting up a new manufacturing plant in Hooghly district dedicated to producing Vande Bharat and Metro coaches, making it Bengal’s second facility for railway rolling stock after Titagarh Rail Systems’ plant at Uttarpara, which began production last year in a joint venture with BHEL.“The new plant where we are going…
Ahmedabad: The city on Sunday recorded a maximum temperature of 41.9 degrees celsius, which was 1 degree higher than normal. With the southwest monsoon covering parts of Maharashtra, it is expected that rains may reach south Gujarat by June 15.The forecast for the state indicated that there will be no major change in maximum temperatures…
Jaipur: Three women working on contract were killed after an unidentified vehicle allegedly ran them over while they were cutting grass along the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway in Jaipur Sunday evening, police said.The accident occurred around 6pm near pillar number 48.2 under Jamwaramgarh police station. Police said the women were working alongside the expressway when the vehicle…
UP Scholarship Registration UP scholarship 2025-26: The Uttar Pradesh Social Welfare Department has opened the registration window for the UP Scholarship 2026-27 scheme for students studying in Classes 9 to 12. Eligible students can submit their applications online through the official scholarship portal, scholarship.up.gov.in, from August 11, 2026.The registration process for students studying in Classes…
Hyderabad: Chief minister A. Revanth Reddy on Monday announced a slew of women empowerment schemes, assuring that the govt would provide land to women members of self-help groups (SHGs) to establish supermarkets, logistics parks, godowns, petrol bunks and rice mills. The govt will also facilitate bank linkage loans at zero per cent interest for these…
The case stems from an FIR registered at Sahibabad police station on Nov 21, 2018 Ghaziabad: Eight years on, a special POCSO court on Friday sentenced a man to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 after convicting him of aggravated penetrative sexual assault on a seven-year-old girl.The case stems from…
Scientists involved in planetary formation studies, meteorites, and early solar system investigations have been wondering about the origins of the ingredients that made up the planet Earth. Studies on carbonaceous chondrites, isotopic compositions, and planetary accretion have shown that the elements needed for life on Earth, such as carbon, water, and volatiles, could have come…
Murdered Coimbatore college student Amudhan CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu assembly witnessed heated debate on Monday after a special call-attention motion on the murder of Amudhan, a 19-year-old engineering student in Coimbatore, turned into a political showdown, with the opposition walking out of the House.Moving the motion, leader of opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin blamed the police for…
A plane carrying deportees from the United States arrives at Roberts International Airport, Harbel, near Monrovia, Liberia (Picture credit: Reuters) The United States on Thursday carried out its first deportation under an agreement allowing Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not Liberian nationals, marking one of the Trump administration’s largest efforts yet…
