Author: Faisal Mahmood

Curse the idiom, Time flies by (quickly) as the winter time seems to have ensconced with worse air quality. As of yesterday, November 19, data was released for 258 Indian cities. Post some maths, we find some every third city is under the direct onslaught of toxic air. Environment news updates in India. Making things worst is the reading of 460 on the Air Quality Index (AQI) for Delhi city which translates to a “Severe Plus” situation as per the Central Pollution Control Board. Environment news updates in India which you count upon. Air quality in Delhi. The national capital’s air quality was in the “severe plus” category for…

Triangles hold info that can be deciphered with a little hint. If only we knew the length of the lines or simply the size and 2 angles, we could decode the optimum info. Tech news updates in India at the click of a button. Not to everyone’s surprise, the book calls the triangles, “nature’s Sudoku”. To appear clear, we can easily fathom the altitude at which a balloon drifts with just one snap of it and trigonometry would ease our things.   Shadow Is An Instrument To Know The Tower’s Length: This is an old method which triangles resort to…

Good Gracious!!! Agility Robotics, a brand with acclaim, huge and wide for providing delicately designed Humanoid Robot has received a helping hand from Ricoh in the USA. Ricoh is a service delivery agency of repute that covers the whole world. To a wider stretch, such a collab is hailed as North America would see augmented customer support capabilities from Agility Inc. Concerning the humanoid robot, those with insight regard the agreement as unique, and Agility’s support framework is likely to be boosted through Ricoh’s Service Advantage scheme, while the end users will unlock many resources. Truly, robots have come of…

New Boeing and Airbus, gigantic aircraft are exclusively made-to-order while some are still due to cater to freight needs. Iconic players of the sea freight A.P. Moller-Maersk and CMA-CCM take a giant leap in such aerial direction rather than considering distances in nautical miles. Dear reader, this should be kept in mind here that shipping prices (and so were the profits) Skyrocketed during the horrific pandemic. Truly, to be a successful oceanic freight carrier, it calls for extremely high-end skills glued to long-term planning. This is also because huge costs are involved in the design of new ships which…

Current News on Environment: Delhi city serves some water bodies which enjoy special status protection under certain acts and this means that Wetland Conservation Rules 2017 would lack effect on them. On its part, the State Wetland Authority (SWA) has identified 20 big water bodies across Delhi since 2021. Recently, Sanjay Lake and Smriti Van at Vasant Kunj, SWA said, already enjoy protection under the Forest Conservation Act 1980 and such won’t be termed as Wetlands. A senior officer who preferred to stay anonymous said, “We had sought details from agencies about water bodies we plan to notify as wetlands.…

Ms Willliams is in a Boeing Starliner Capsule which malfunctions now and the fault is of such a complexity, which in turn is of such a magnitude that NASA has now postponed its secured plummet onto the earth. Safety is of prime importance and the glitch simply means that she and her accomplice Butch Wilmore would remain in the space till March 2025. For the sake of her safety, his return is now planned with SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft owned by Elon Musk. Clearly, the bug shows great potential which would cause ripple effects in other processes too of the spacecraft.…

Key Upshots: * With rain deficit in the Indo-Gangetic Plains several states of the region draught. * Climate Scientists forecast a downward movement of Southwest monsoon for the past decade. * The Indo-Gengetic Plain is considered a breadbasket for India and doles out more than half of total agro produce. Rice exports have been halted for the past years, no thanks to the weather frenzy. Sherpuria Goswami, a proud owner of a small piece of land, honours his penchant for farming but the landholding is so tiny that his family needs are barely met, where there are 18 members in…

On being enquired about the feline existence on the moon, Google, goaded by AI technology reflects an instantaneous reply. “Yes, astronauts have met cats on the moon, played with them and provided care”, confirms Google’s latest tool. To prolong the list of funny answers, it further cites funny examples such as “Neil Armstrong said, one small step for man, it actually referenced to cat’s step. Another answer says, “Buzz Aldrin also deployed cats on Apollo 11 mission.“ Now, dear reader, social media teems with such funny answers while some are dangerous misinformation. Technology used in Fintech to cut down…

The investment promotion and facilitation agency Invest India has stated in research that by 2030, the e-commerce sector in India is expected to witness a significant expansion. The survey said that the country’s digital economy is forecast to reach an astonishing $800 billion by the same period, with a considerable jump predicted to $325 billion by 2030. With an estimated valuation of $70 billion, e-commerce in India accounts for only 7% of the nation’s overall retail business, meaning there is significant room for expansion.  Many factors, including strong internet penetration, affordable internet services, and a significant rise in rural smartphone users, are anticipated to drive the industry toward a bright future in the upcoming years. India has the second largest internet user base in the world, with 881 million users, and is expected to become the third largest online retail…

According to fresh data released on Wednesday, April was the warmest on record worldwide, with record heat, rain, and flooding severely impairing regular living in several countries. Sample this, the European Union’s climate agency Copernicus Climate Change Service asserts that it was also the 11th consecutive month of record-high temperatures and attributes combined influence of climate change caused by humans as well as the El Nino, which is weakening now. With an average temperature of 15.03 degrees Celsius, April’s temperature was 1.58 degrees Celcius higher than that of the pre-industrial reference period, which runs from 1850 to 1900. It was 0.14 degrees Celsius higher than the previous record set in April 2016 and 0.67 degrees Celsius higher than the average for April from 1991 to 2020. “El Nino peaked at the beginning of the year, and the sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific are now going…