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Glass has a disordered atomic structure, meaning its atoms don’t have a regularly repeating arrangement. | Photo Credit: Rob Wingate/Unsplash — Manda Venkata Apparao, Hyderabad Glass is transparent for two reasons. First, light carries energy in small packets called photons. Electrons in atoms can absorb these photons and move from one energy level to another…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday (October 19, 2026) used violent unrest in France as an argument against Democrats in his battle to defend a Kansas Senate seat long held by Republicans but in danger of falling to his political opponents. Mr. Trump’s rally on behalf of Republican incumbent Roger Marshall was his latest foray…
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Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Surendra Adhana. Credit: X/@AdhanaIfs India has voiced concern over the “challenging” liquidity situation of the United Nations this year, as it called out the “unacceptably high levels” of unpaid assessments owed by just one member state. “We consider that full, timely and unconditional payment of…
ISRO’s Solar Mission Aditya-L1 entering Halo Orbit. File | Photo Credit: ANI Scientists have generated Doppler velocity images of activities taking place in the solar corona using data obtained with the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC) payload onboard India’s maiden solar mission, Aditya-L1. The Aditya-L1 satellite generates Doppler velocity images of the solar corona, and…
A staggering 80 per cent of the world’s vibrant coral reefs experienced extreme levels of heat stress from warming oceans between 2023 and 2025, exacerbated by the 2023 El Niño. Swathes of reefs were struck by bleaching and mortality, and India’s corals were no exception in this fourth global mass coral bleaching event in recorded history. Lakshadweep…
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shake hands after their meeting at Iran’s Foreign Ministry in Tehran, on October 19, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday (October 20, 2026)that Russia and Iran have “never” worked so closely, as Moscow seeks to play a…
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, second right, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, third left, Victorian Premier Ben Carroll, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police Mike Bush, left, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett, obscured, and Victorian Police Minister Paul Edbrooke, right, hold a meeting following the attack on federal independent member of parliament, Helen Haines in…
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U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance delivers remarks at a campaign rally at Hyder Warehouse on October 19, 2026 in Hendersonville, North Carolina, US. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance declined on Monday (October 19, 2026) to endorse Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection a day after President Donald Trump endorsed the embattled…
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Heartland Credit Union Arena, Monday, Oct. 19, 2026, in Park City, | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump said on Monday the U.S. Department of Agriculture will launch what he called a new “harvest fuel relief program” that will provide farmers with $8 billion in support…
Rising fuel costs, discontent with the state of schools, declining public services and a housing crisis have created perfectly stormy weather for an autumn of protests in Europe. Crowds have taken to the streets for weeks in major cities, resulting in arrests, looting, injuries, and violence across France, Italy and Albania. In Spain and Portugal,…
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