Month: July 2021

A sandstorm caused a huge 22-vehicle pileup on a Utah highway that left eight people dead, including four children, authorities said. The Sunday afternoon crashes on Interstate 15 near the town of Kanosh came at the end of a holiday weekend for the state that often leads to increased highway traffic. At least 10 people…

Delta is now the dominant variant of Covid-19 in most of Europe, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Monday. Along with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the WHO said that efforts to prevent transmission of the Delta variant must be reinforced. According to the WHO’s Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe),…

A prolific serial torture-slayer dubbed “The Dating Game Killer” died Saturday while awaiting execution in California, authorities said. Rodney James Alcala was 77. He died of natural causes at a hospital in San Joaquin Valley, California, prison officials said in a statement.Alcala was sentenced to death in 2010 for five slayings in California between 1977…

Part of an astronomy team, Indian astronomers have detected a very short, powerful burst of high-energy radiation that lasted for about a second. The event had been travelling for nearly half the present age of the universe before it hit Earth. The universe is nearly 14 billion years old. The burst was first detected by…

Indonesia is optimistic of reaching a net zero emissions target by 2060 or sooner, a senior minister said on Tuesday, after the government submitted updated nationally determined climate goals to the United Nations. The new net zero emissions target was at least a decade earlier than the 2070 target, President Joko Widodo said in March.While…

Hit by the Coronavirus pandemic, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will likely launch the much-awaited Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon in the third quarter of 2022. The new timeline was revealed by Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh, who said, “work of Chandrayaan-3 is in progress.” The minister in…

In February 2001, when researchers released the first set of the human genome sequence, it was a seismic event in the history of life sciences. However, it was not truly complete and 15 per cent of the genome was still to be deciphered. The most complicated chunk of DNA called for further research and technological…

Riding high on the success of Elon Musk-led SpaceX in private space transportation, Nasa is set to add another new organisation to its list of service providers as Boeing conducts its second Orbital Flight Test (OFT) on its Starliner capsule. The uncrewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is set to be launched on July…

A 31-year-old junior engineer was arrested for allegedly snatching the gold earrings of a woman in Delhi’s Mansarovar Park area and selling them to meet expenses for his birthday celebrations, police said on Tuesday. The accused, Mohit Gautam alias Love, is a resident of Jyoti Nagar in Shahdara, they said.On Friday, a case was registered…

The police in Rajasthan’s Alwar have arrested a man for allegedly raping his 12-year-old stepdaughter and attempting to rape another minor stepdaughter. According to the police, the father of the two girls had died due to cancer following which their mother was in a livein relationship with the accused. The mother married the accused three…