How elephants send messages through footsteps and hear through skulls

Spread the love       An elephant doesn’t need to hear another elephant to know it’s there. It can feel it. Yes, kind of like telepathy, but not exactly. You see, elephants can communicate with other elephants through sounds that can travel through the air up to five kilometres. But that’s not their only mode of communication. They have a second channel...

Vijay’s Jana Nayagan: Canada distributor gives ‘VIP access’ for tickets, UK is sold out

Vijay’s Jana Nayagan: Canada distributor gives ‘VIP access’ for tickets, UK is sold out

Spread the love       2 min readNew DelhiJul 15, 2026 04:43 PM IST After a long wait, actor-turned-politician Vijay’s final film, Jana Nayagan, is all set to hit theatres on July 23 in India and July 24 worldwide. While advance bookings in India are yet to open, ticket sales have already begun in overseas markets, including the UK and Australia. In...

2 Varanasi highway projects worth Rs 25,44 cr approved – how they will affect commuters

Spread the love       Cabinet approved 43.218 km Link/Connector Corridor connecting NH-31 and Varanasi Ring Road along the River Varuna . NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Wednesday approved two highway projects to further strengthen infrastructure in Varanasi (Kashi) by constructing a 43.2-km, predominantly 6/4-lane elevated corridor along the Varuna riverbank and a 46.04-km, predominantly six-lane elevated...

Big setback for Prashant Kishor! 4 Jan Suraaj leaders switch to BJP before Bankipur bypoll

Spread the love       Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj leaders switch to BJP ahead of Bankipur bypoll NEW DELHI: In a setback to Jan Suraaj founder Prashant Kishor ahead of the Bankipur Assembly bypoll, several party leaders, including candidates who contested the 2025 Bihar assembly elections on the party’s ticket, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday.The leaders who joined the...

ICC introduces ‘Super Series’ and ‘Super 7’ format for 2027 ODI World Cup

Spread the love       India’s Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (PTI Photo) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has approved major changes to the formats of its flagship men’s tournaments, introducing a new structure for both the ODI and T20 World Cups while also endorsing a new global competition for associate nations ahead of the 2028 Men’s T20 World Cup. The decisions...

‘Serious risk’ to India’s largest nuclear plant after sensitive files leaked on dark web

Spread the love       KNPP targeted by ‘serious’ data leak. (Image source: Reuters) NEW DELHI: A ransomware group has published thousands of files allegedly linked to India’s largest nuclear power plant, Kudankulam, in what experts warn could pose a “serious” risk to the facility’s safety.The hacker group World Leaks posted on the dark web what it claims are more than 19,000...

Influenza A cases climbing amid Covid-19 reports: Doctors share key precautions

Influenza A cases climbing amid Covid-19 reports: Doctors share key precautions

Spread the love       4 min readNew DelhiJul 15, 2026 03:55 PM IST Dr Amit Thadani, a Mumbai-based surgeon, recently tweeted about a seemingly ongoing wave of influenza A cases. “There seems to be an ongoing wave of influenza A cases on a scale that I haven’t seen before in Mumbai. Almost epidemic-like. Take care, folks. Wear mask whenever outdoors,” he...

Google tried to sell AI chips to Nvidia’s own cloud partner, Nvidia had a quiet answer

Spread the love       Google is quietly trying to sell its homegrown AI chips to a new class of cloud providers, and Nvidia has apparently noticed. According to a report from The Information, Google has been pitching its Tensor Processing Units to so-called neoclouds—specialist cloud firms that rent out AI computing power—in a bid to break into a market Nvidia has...

Semicon 2.0, Varanasi projects, rail upgrades & more: 7 big decisions cleared by Cabinet

Spread the love       Representational image The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved seven major decisions covering infrastructure, semiconductor manufacturing, mobile phone production, fertiliser and railway projects. The package includes Semicon 2.0, the Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme (MPMS) and the National Investment Policy for Urea-2026, with a combined outlay of Rs 2,19,353 crore.The announcements came during a press briefing after the Cabinet...

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