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Aroh Barjatya, an India-born researcher, led NASA’s mission that launched sounding rockets during the recent total solar eclipse. The US space agency launched three sounding rockets during the total solar eclipse on April 8 to study what happens to the Earth’s upper atmosphere when sunlight dims momentarily over a part of the planet. Who Is Aroh Barjatya? A professor of engineering physics, Aroh Barjatya directs the Space and Atmospheric Instrumentation Lab at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. Born to a chemical engineer, Ashok Kumar Barjatya, and his wife Rajeshwari, Aroh Barjatya went to schools across India, including in Patalganga…
A devastating accident in Haryana’s Mahendragarh involving a school bus that killed six students returning home from school today raised questions about the safety of the buses and a debate over who should be held responsible. Parents and locals are also asking why the school remained open on Eid, a public holiday. Six children died and over 20 were injured when the school bus rammed a tree and overturned this morning. The driver was reportedly drunk, the police said. The bus, whose fitness certificate had expired in 2018, belonged to GL Public School. A state road transport official has been…
Google, in a major announcement, made the artificial intelligence (AI) editing tools on its Google Photos app available to all Android and iOS users on Wednesday. This includes the Magic Eraser, Photo Unblur, and Portrait light features introduced with the Pixel 7 series. Additionally, non-Pixel users will also get limited usage of the Magic Editor tool which was launched with the Pixel 8 series. Notably, the tech giant has made several major announcements this week including adding a new app to Workspace and bringing Gemini 1.5 Pro to public preview. The announcement was made by Dina Berrada, Director of Product…
Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola will return to the Cannes Film Festival with his long-awaited epic Megalopolis, organisers said on Thursday, announcing a line-up that includes some huge names of world cinema. The 77th edition of the festival on the French Cote d’Azur, considered the most prestigious in the film industry, runs from May 14 to 25. This year’s competition for the top prize, the Palme d’Or, includes another team-up between Emma Stone and Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos — Kinds of Kindness — just weeks after Stone’s Oscar win for their Frankenstein-style satire Poor Things.The Apprentice, a biopic about the early years…
Eid 2024 is here and people around the world are celebrating this auspicious day. Several Bollywood stars are also making the most of this festival. One of them is Kareena Kapoor. The actress often delights us with glimpses into her foodie side. From enjoying pizza on set to relishing local food abroad, Kareena’s food diaries keep us hooked. She recently took to Instagram to give us a sneak peek into her Eid indulgence. Wondering what she savoured? In the photo posted on Instagram stories, we see a bowl of creamy sheer khurma. Also Read: This City Ordered Over A Million Plates…
Aamir Khan might be a social media recluse but we got as glimpse of his Eid celebrations with his family courtesy his ex-wife and filmmaker Kiran Rao’s latest Instagram entry. Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao can be seen twinning and winning in white outfits in the video. The video also features Aamir Khan’s mom Zeenat Hussain, his sister Nikhat and other guests. Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao’s son Azad is seen all smiles in the clip. “Eid Mubarak to all. May this year bring us peace and love,” Kiran Rao captioned the post from the festivities.Check out Kiran Rao’s post…
A narrow airstrip that doesn’t even have an air traffic controller to guide incoming airplanes and whose only infrastructure is a portable toilet and a make-shift office in a container in the midst of miles of barren land bordering Pakistan is an unlikely gateway to the world’s largest renewable energy park. The airstrip was even smaller in December 2022, when Adani group head Gautam Adani, who was then the second richest person in the world, first used a small aircraft to reach the barren area that didn’t even have a pincode and got its name from a village 80-kilometers away.…
The makers of the upcoming Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff’s action film Bade Miyan Chote Miyan have used real weapons to amp up the cinematic experience. The film boasts thrilling car chases, intense knife combat, breathtaking arrow fights, dynamic lab action sequences, and a myriad of other jaw-dropping stunts. Among the arsenal of specialised weapons utilised in the film are – Chinooks, Black Hawks, C-235, Humvees, Oshkoshes, Military trucks, Military Land Rovers, ATVs, and tanks. Talking about using real weapons for the film, director Ali Abbas Zafar said: “There is nothing more satisfying than shooting real stunts on real locations…
A relative of one of the assassins of late Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, is contesting the parliamentary elections in Punjab from the Faridkot (Reserved) constituency as an Independent. A Class XII dropout, Sarabjit Singh Khalsa (45) is the son of Beant Singh, one of the two killers of the late Prime Minister. In 2014 and 2009, Sarabjit Singh Khalsa unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha pollS from the Fatehgarh Sahib (Reserved) and Bathinda seats, respectively. In 2019, he was the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate. Beant Singh and Satwant Singh, bodyguards of then PM Indira Gandhi, had riddled her with bullets on…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said under the strong BJP-led government at the Centre, the country’s security forces are eliminating terrorists on their home turf. Addressing an election rally here, PM Modi said the echoes of ‘Phir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar’ (Modi government once again) were being heard across the country as people have seen the benefits of a stable government. “Enemies took advantage and terrorism spread whenever there were weak and unstable governments in the country. But under a strong Modi government, our forces are killing terrorists on their own turf,” he said. The Prime Minister said he…