Spread the love Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vaishnavi Sharma (Photo/Agencies) India wicketkeeper Yastika Bhatia found a unique way to motivate off-spinner Vaishnavi Sharma during the third women’s ODI against Zimbabwe in Vadodara on Wednesday, borrowing a famous dialogue from the Hindi film Gangs of Wasseypur 2.As Vaishnavi troubled the Zimbabwe batters, Yastika was heard saying from behind the stumps: “Vaishu (Vaishnavi) sabka...
63 in 100 Indian pilots may be sleepy during dawn landings, safety review warns
Spread the love Approximately 63 out of 100 Indian pilots may be drowsy during dawn landings (Representative image generated using AI) MUMBAI: About 63 in 100 Indian pilots were predicted to be sleepy when they land at dawn after the legally permitted maximum night duty of 10 hours, according to a review by Safety Matters Foundation, a not-for-profit aviation safety...
1969 Vietnam soldier’s 43-minute message to mom preserved by Smithsonian
Spread the love In March 1969, a 21-year-old American soldier stationed in Vietnam decided to do something different from writing a letter home. Frank A. Kowalczyk switched on a reel-to-reel tape recorder and began speaking to his mother in Illinois, sharing updates about his fellow soldiers, life in the Army, family gossip and his plans for the future. During the...
‘There was mangled mess of metal’: Eyewitnesses recount Spain train crash
Spread the love Rescue personnel work to recover bodies following the collision of two high-speed trains between the towns of Mora and Orgaz, near Toledo, Spain. “The train never braked, and I felt that with every millisecond that passed,” one of the survivors of the Spain train crash said, describing the ordeal. The collision between two high-speed trains near Urda...
‘Refrain from seeing ghosts everywhere’: Sitharaman flays Rahul over Tata Group remarks
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday asked Rahul Gandhi to “refrain from seeing ghosts everywhere” after the Congress leader accused the government of “criminally destroying” the Tata Group.Sitharaman’s remarks came after Rahul Gandhi questioned business leaders’ “silence” on the comglomerate in a post on X, amid a dispute over the reappointment of N Chandrasekaran as...
Are humans still evolving?
Spread the love Evolution is too slow to detect within a single human lifetime | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto — Anand Songara, Indore Humans are still evolving — through new mutations, natural selection, migration, and random chance. Modern medicine and technologies have also changed the pressures acting on us. Put one way, evolution can be discerned from changes in the...
Spain train crash: Govt blames ‘human error’ by operator — what led to collision?
Spread the love Spain’s rail infrastructure operator ADIF has suspended services on the affected routes. The Spanish government has blamed a “possible human error” by a railway operator as the cause of a deadly collision between two high-speed trains in the central province of Toledo.The preliminary assessment points to a failure in the main signalling system, which may have contributed...
Gene therapy offers to beat hepatitis B virus by muting its DNA
Spread the love In 1904, two scientists, Henry Wheeler and Treat Johnson, synthesised a variant of cytosine, one of the building blocks of DNA, in the laboratory. The variant they synthesised contained a chemical tag called a methyl group (-CH3) attached to cytosine, so they called it 5-methylcytosine. Their motivation for doing so was based on the observation that two other...
‘Not a concern’: 118 runs, no fifty in tri-series but Babar still has Pakistan’s backing
Spread the love Babar Azam (AFP Photo) Pakistan batting coach Mike Smith has backed Babar Azam despite the batter’s recent struggles to score big, saying there is no reason to worry as Pakistan prepare to face Sri Lanka in the tri-series final on Saturday.Pakistan suffered their first defeat of the series on Tuesday, losing to Sri Lanka by eight wickets...
Train driver missing after deadly Spain train collision: What we know so far
Spread the love The Renfe train was carrying 397 passengers, while the Iryo service had 147 passengers on board At least 30 people have been killed after two high-speed trains collided in Spain’s central Toledo province on Wednesday, with authorities warning that the death toll could rise further. A trainee railway worker who had gone missing following the crash has...
