For its FA Cup third-round match against Manchester United on Sunday, Arsenal’s players are wearing an all-white uniform as part of the club’s continuing campaign against knife crime and youth violence, reported AP. Launched in 2022, this is the fourth season Arsenal has worn a kit “drained of the club’s traditional red” to raise awareness. …
A collaboration between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has resulted in the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, which is set to launch in a few months. This mission, designed to track and monitor Earth’s dynamic surface, will use synthetic aperture radar technology to measure changes in land and ice formations. Capable …
President-elect Donald Trump voiced strong support for scrapping New York City’s congestion pricing and raising the cap on state and local tax (SALT) deductions during a meeting with New York’s House Republicans at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday (January 11), as per a report. Trump’s stance on congestion pricing During the meeting, Trump …
Mantra, a blockchain platform focused on real-world assets (RWAs), has signed a deal with Dubai developer Damac Group to tokenise assets in the Middle East worth at least $1 billion (roughly Rs. 8,589 crore), the two firms said on Thursday. Asset tokenisation allows rights to, or ownership of assets, including real world assets (RWAs), to …
Almost a week after 9 people, including a driver, were feared killed in the bomb blast in Bijapur, as many as two police personnel were injured in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur on Sunday, ANI quoted the police as saying. The police added that the IED blast was carried out by the Maoists. According …
A significant discovery involving a supernova remnant in the Milky Way, identified as G278.94+1.35, has been made by a team of international astronomers. This structure, resulting from a massive stellar explosion, was initially thought to be approximately 8,800 light years away. New findings have revised this distance to about 3,300 light years, making it closer …
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s main priority ahead of his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump is ensuring that Ukraine never joins NATO, according to a recent news report. A former senior Kremlin official and another source familiar with Putin’s views told the Financial Times, as reported by New York Post, that Russia’s primary objective in talks …
Republican from Ohio and Vice President-elect JD Vance has found himself in a rather humorous predicament ahead of his inauguration on January 20. While preparing for the official swearing-in ceremony as Vice President of the United States under President-elect Donald Trump, Vance is also eagerly anticipating a high-stakes college football game—the National Championship between Ohio …
Grok, xAI’s native artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, is now available as a standalone iOS app. The Elon Musk-run AI firm has been testing the app in beta for nearly a month, as per reports. The standalone app comes with all the features available on the web version of the chatbot. Users can generate images and …
New Delhi: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Chemicals and Fertilizers reviewed the prices of essential medicines on 7 January in a meeting attended by officials from the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP). This move may lead to a lowering of prices of life-saving medicines. The union government announced a 50% hike in the price of essential …