Coveted Geographical Indication (GI) tags have been awarded to sitars and tanpuras of Miraj. The town is in Maharashtra’s Sangli district is famous for its craftsmanship in making musical instruments…

On Monday, April 8, the sky will momentarily darken in many parts of the world which will be in the path of totality during the 2024 solar eclipse. India’s solar…

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TSUNAMI The word tsunami (pronounced tsoo-nah’-mee) is composed of the Japanese words “tsu” (which means harbor) and “nami” (which means “wave”). A tsunami is a series of large waves of…

Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, Director General of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), mentioned on Friday that the ongoing El Niño conditions are expected to transition to a ‘neutral’ phase before the onset…

The Earth completes its orbit around the Sun, constituting a solar year, in roughly 365.25 days. Typically, we round this duration to 365 days in a calendar year. To compensate…

NASA reported that on Thursday, February 22, the Sun emitted a remarkably powerful solar flare, registering as an X6.3 on the scale. The classification X denotes the utmost intensity of…

A unique triple-dip La-Nina event– the three consecutive years of La Niña conditions- made worse by climate change, led to an unusual pattern during the winter season of 2022-23. A…

Recently International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classified the Himalayan wolf ((Canis lupus chanco), lupine predator, as ‘vulnerable’ in its Red List of Threatened Species in 2023; only 2,275…

In the interim budget speech Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman declared free electricity of up to 300 units, every month,  will be provided under the Centre’s proposed rooftop solarisation scheme;…