The government's agenda also includes the Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021.
The winners of the Natural History Museum's prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition were announced at an awards ceremony in London. American photographer Karine Aigner was announced as this year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
The post office is expected to open early this year, making it possible for mail delivered at any post office in Beijing to reach Antarctica.
In recent years, the twin demands of both religion and defence have been added to the development argument to sweep aside environmental and terrain considerations while undertaking infrastructure development in the Himalayan zone, points out former foreign secretary Shyam Saran.
Susannah Gill battles brutal conditions to claim World Marathon title
Six of the seven Bills listed on the agenda of the Rajya Sabha have already been passed by the Lok Sabha.
Guffaw seeing these frontrunners in the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2022.
Satyarup Siddhanta is the youngest mountaineer in the world to climb both the Seven Summits and the Seven Volcanic Summits.
The United States has reported the most deaths -- more than 2,05,000 -- followed by Brazil, India, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
Sushant once shared his dreams with the world. While he managed to fulfill some, he had wanted to do so much more.
In a rare honour, the United States has named a mountain in Antarctica after eminent Indian-American scientist Akhouri Sinha whose pioneering biological research expedition has provided vital data about animal populations.
Based mainly on his reconnaissance reports, the Indian Army went ahead with the mission to occupy the Siachen heights under the Operation Meghdoot.
The map showed all the countries, including water bodies and Antarctica, coloured red, with the exception of the state of California, India, Mexico, Liberia, Cuba and China coloured blue -- the hue of the Democratic party. However, while India was coloured blue, Jammu and Kashmir and the North-East states were coloured red.
'I have only one life and that is enough.'
Indian drug major Nicholas Piramal India Ltd is likely to be among the first pharmaceutical companies worldwide to develop drugs isolated from the flora and fauna of Antarctica.
The ozone hole over Antarctica expanded this month to one of the largest sizes on record due to unusually cold temperatures in the stratosphere, which could lead to more harmful ultraviolet rays reaching the Earth, according to NASA.
The Underwater Photography Guide has announced the winners of their 8th annual Ocean Art Underwater Photography Competition: a selection that runs the gamut between beautiful, eye popping and, in the case of the Conservation category winner, tragic and unnerving. This year's contest attracted "thousands" of entries from 78 countries across the world.
As the savage Arctic blast threatens the coldest weather in the United States in two decades, Rediff.com looks at some of the coldest places in the world with record-setting low temperatures
Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica's large ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise by approximately 20 metres, a new study has claimed.
Besides inspecting the two Indian stations -- Bharati and Maitri -- the joint team also inspected sites of other countries as part of the collaboration between the two countries announced this September.
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On June 6, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again.
Airlines are set to buy 30,900 aircraft valued at $3.6 trillion in the next 20 years.
Director George Miller slaps one gimmick after another, introducing more characters than the story can contain.
Powerful ocean currents beneath West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole, a new study has found.
The asteroid 2011 MD will pass only 12,000 kilometres (7,500 miles) above Earth's surface at around 6.56 pm on Monday, Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators Director C B Devgun said.
A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake capable of tremendous damage struck southern Chile on Saturday, shaking buildings in the capital, the US Geological Survey said.
In a new research into the impact of melting ice on global sea level, scientists have found that thinning ice in Antarctica is contributing nearly 10 per cent of sea level rise and Pine Island Glacier is the major source.
Piramal Life Sciences may become the first company to successfully develop a tuberculosis drug whose leads isolated from the living organisms found in ice brought from the Antarctica region. "(Our) scientists have identified additional leads that will help develop drugs to treat tuberculosis and other infections," revealed Swati Piramal, director, Nicholas Piramal.
From a poor farmer's family to IIT-IIM to the tallest peaks in the world, Malli Mastan Babu's story is the stuff movies are made of, discovers Chandrima Pal.
While star gazers in north-eastern, eastern and southern parts of the country will witness a partial eclipse of the sun, those in southern parts of Africa, Antarctica, South East Asia and Australia will be treated to a rare annular solar eclipse.
For all they know the next Cheetah Girls movie could be shot in the Antarctica but right now the platinum selling recording artists and actors Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams would love to return to India and dance on the streets, joining wedding parties and getting to know more about Bollywood. The three starred in The Cheetah Girls One World, shot entirely in India.
Patil arrived in the Chilean capital Santiago from Mexico Sunday night. The two nations would be inking four projects which also include an agreement on science and technology and increasing cooperation on Antarctica.
The presence of phosphine in Venus's thick atmosphere has revived the age-old question: Are we alone?
Researchers are trying to study glacier or ice sheet behaviour using boulders the size of footballs that were deposited by the three glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment in the region.
Meet the solo female traveller who making six-figures just following her dreams.
Amitabh's Hindi narration adds cosiness to the Oscar-winning March Of The Penguins.
From ice-capped Siachen, the highest battlefield in the world, to the warships off South Korea, Indian armed forces on Tuesday joined the International Yoga Day celebrations.
Tailored luxury experiences with the most minute of details charted out for discerning travellers is the way forward, says Nikita Puri.
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