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An artistic representation of a 2D layer of carbon atoms, a.k.a. graphene. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto When the same element is able to exist in different forms, the forms are called allotropes. Graphene, thus, is an allotrope of carbon, along with diamond and graphite. It consists of a single layer of carbon atoms that…
Alice Munro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, died at 92 in May Montreal, Canada: Canadian writer Alice Munro’s daughter said Sunday that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child and that her mother was told but stayed with him, in a damning account published after the Nobel laureate’s death. Andrea…
Emmanuel Macron faces a number of headaches including a left that now believes it has a mandate to govern Paris: President Emmanuel Macron has avoided his nightmare scenario of the far right coming to power in France but still faces an unprecedented challenge steering his country and the remainder of his presidency through an uncertain…
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Image used for representative purpose only. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Russia on Sunday said its forces had captured another village in Ukraine‘s eastern Donetsk region, the latest modest territorial gain for its advancing forces. Russian troops had “liberated the village of Chigari” in the Donetsk region, the Defence Ministry said in a daily briefing posted on social…
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Doug Emhoff’s office said he is “fully vaccinated and three times boosted” Washington: US Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff recently tested positive for Covid-19, the latter’s office has announced. In a statement on Sunday, Emhoff’s Communications Director Liza Acevedo said the Second Gentleman on Saturday tested positive for Covid-19 after experiencing mild symptoms….
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The Israeli military said an explosive drone “fell in an open area in the Mount Hermon area” Beirut, Lebanon: Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said on Sunday it launched its “largest” air operation, sending explosive drones at a mountaintop Israeli military intelligence base in the annexed Golan Heights. It is the latest incident among escalating cross-border exchanges…
The local emergency services in Russia have fished out all the four bodies of students who drowned in Volkhov river near St. Petersburg, Russia. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Seven children were among 49 people who drowned in waters across Russia on July 6 as scorching heat blankets large swaths of the country, the Ministry…
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Image used for representational purpose. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/ In an exceptionally slow start to private capex in this financial year, new investment plans in the country slumped to a 20-year low in the April to June quarter, with just ₹44,300 crore of fresh outlays announced by corporates. The first quarter of 2023-24 had…
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BCCI President Roger Binny, Secretary Jay Shah and Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma during celebrations upon the team’s arrival at New Delhi airport, on July 4, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI T20 World Cup-winning skipper Rohit Sharma will continue to lead India in the ODI and Test formats BCCI secretary Jay Shah said on…
Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, shakes hands with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. | Photo Credit: AP President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said he might invite his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to Turkiye “at any moment”, in a sign of reconciliation after the 2011 war broke ties between Ankara and Damascus. Mr. Erdogan’s…
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