The Indian physicist who discovered how stars live and die while on a ship voyage

Vikas Datta | October 19, 2024 11:44 AM

New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) It was a cosmic conundrum that had left the world's foremost physicist puzzled, while a leading astronomer's efforts to help him complicated matters further, but this teenage Indian student, using just pen and paper, devised a solution to the issue while sailing to the UK in 1930 to take up a scholarship to study physics.

President Murmu meets Malawi counterpart, holds delegation-level talks

IANS | October 18, 2024 10:14 PM

Lilongwe, Oct 18 (IANS) President Droupadi Murmu on Friday met her Malawi counterpart Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera on the second day of her visit to the east African country, and held productive discussions on a wide range of issues to further deepen the India-Malawi relationship, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said.

Thousands travel from across US to attend PM Modi's diaspora event in Uniondale

IANS | September 22, 2024 5:28 PM

New York, Sep 22 (IANS) More than 16,000 people - many of them travelling from all corners of the US overnight - are expected to gather at the Nassau Coliseum on Long Island on Sunday to give a thunderous welcome to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and listen to his much-awaited speech at the community reception.