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The logo of Indian food delivery company Zomato with its new logo of ‘Eternal’. Food and delivery platform Zomato said on Thursday (February 6, 2025) it will rename the company to “Eternal” and unveiled a new logo, a move that comes more than two years after it began using the new name internally. In a…
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(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) The idiom “monkey see, monkey do” refers to someone copying an action without putting much thought into it. It literally lays the blame at a monkey’s feet, but a new…
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A cat looks through the dusty screen door of a house undamaged by the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Q: How many female cats were trained for the space flight that included Félicette? Félicette was the first cat to travel to space, launching on…
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A worker cleans a Bharti Airtel logo inside its shop in Kolkata. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Bharti Airtel on Thursday (February 6, 2025) reported more than five-fold jump in consolidated net profit to ₹16,134.6 crore for the October-December quarter of 2024-25 compared to ₹2,876.4 crore in the year-ago period. India’s second-largest telecom company posted…
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A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Bombay have come up with a new technique that can measure the rate of iron coating degradation. This discovery claims to hold the potential of benefiting the steel industry. Metals corrode with time, and some metals corrode more than others, like iron rusts…
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Global oil benchmark Brent crude rose by 0.60% to $75.06 a barrel. File | Photo Credit: PTI Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty slid for the second consecutive day on Thursday (February 6, 2025) amid caution ahead of the RBI’s monetary policy decision and fresh foreign fund outflows. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 213.12 points or…
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SBI’s interest income in Q3 grew to ₹1,17,427 crore compared to ₹1,06,734 crore a year ago. Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Reuters The country’s largest lender SBI on Thursday (February 6, 2025) reported an 84% jump in standalone net profit to ₹16,891 crore in the December quarter. State Bank of India (SBI) had earned…
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Union Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh. File | Photo Credit: ANI India will launch the Chandrayaan-4 mission to bring back samples of moon rocks to the Earth in 2027, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said. Chandrayaan-4 will involve at least two separate launches of the heavylift LVM-3…
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Kashmiri farmer and saffron producer Ghulam Mohammad Mir and his family pick saffron stigmas from the flowers at his residence in Kashmir’s Pampore October 31, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Tucked in a valley beneath the snow-capped Himalayas of the Indian Kashmir region is the town of Pampore, famed for its farms that grow the…
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The story so far An editorial titled ‘Predatory Journals: What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey’ was jointly published across the world’s most prestigious scientific journals in their first issue of January 2025. Unusually, all leading journals such as Nature, Science, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, NMJI (and many more)…
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