Mars had lakes and oceans billions of years ago, but where all the water went to turn the earth into the desert rock we know today has remained a mystery. The majority of it was believed to have been lost to space, but a recent NASA-funded analysis suggests that it didn’t go anywhere and is now embedded inside minerals in the crust. “We’re suggesting that the crust forms what we call hydrated minerals, which are minerals that have water in their crystal structure,” Eva Scheller, lead author of the latest Science article, told AFP. According to Scheller’s model, anywhere from…
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Even as the Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray attacked the government for passing on the probe of Mukesh Ambani bomb case to the NIA, the mystery is deepening around the case with each day the NIA coming up with new findings of the probe. The NIA has now found a black Mercedes-Benz car allegedly driven by arrested police officer Sachin Waze. The anti-terrorist agency seized 5 lakh in cash, a note-counting system, some clothing, and the SUV’s license plate from the vehicle. Now the car has been confiscated. “The National Investigation Agency has confiscated a black Mercedes-Benz today. We recovered…
The vehicle of the BJP’s rath yatra was destroyed on Tuesday in Purulia, West Bengal. The incident happened immediately after Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s rally in Purulia district’s Manbazar area. Following the vandalism incident, the security has been tightened and there is a significant police presence in the area. The BJP has accused the Trinamool Congress of being involved in the attack on its campaign tableau. According to available records, the incident occurred as the ‘Poriborton’ rath yatra was returning to Purulia after making rounds of the district’s nine assembly constituencies. According to Amit Malviya of the BJP, the bus…
After the National Investigation Agency took over the Mukesh Ambani Bomb case, new finding show that the police official Sachin Vaze to have confiscated his own housing society’s digital video recorder (DVR) whilst investigating the case with the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU). The National Investigative Agency (NIA), which later arrested him, is investigating whether or not the CCTV video from the DVR was tampered with. It is also investigating the likelihood that Vaze took the SUV to his own residential compound. On February 25, a Mahindra Scorpio carrying gelatin sticks was discovered on Mumbai’s Carmichael Lane, near Ambani’s Antilia house.…
Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK), is scheduled to visit India in April of this year to strengthen bilateral ties. This will be PM Johnson’s first major foreign trip since Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in January of last year. https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1371631639378325504?s=20 Prime Minister Johnson was invited to India’s Republic Day celebrations in January of this year. His visit to India was supposed to accelerate bilateral trade talks. However, owing to an increase in Covid-19 cases in the UK, he was forced to postpone his visit. Prior to PM Johnson’s planned visit in January of this…
The Danish Parliament has approved a new law prohibiting foreign countries from supporting or financing mosques in the region. This action follows claims that Muslim countries such as Algeria, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates have spent hundreds of millions of euros to spread Islam in Europe. Major political parties of Denmark supported the proposal of the new law. Mattias Tesfaye, the country’s Social Democrat Immigration and Integration Minister, hailed the legislation as a significant step toward combating “Islamist terrorism.” Without mentioning a religion, the law says, “The intent of the Act is to…
The latest chapter in the TMCs story of exits this election season is two-time MLA, Debashree Roy. Debashree Roy, a two-time Trinamool Congress MLA, resigned from the party on Monday after being dropped as a candidate for the Bengal election, which begins later this month. Debashree Roy, 59, told the party in a letter that she no longer wanted to be affiliated with the Trinamool Congress. She was on the brink of leaving the party in 2019. “While I hold no position in the organisation, I thought it was important to write this letter because I wanted to remind the…
https://twitter.com/DieuOfBlckPearl/status/1371442296894320643?s=20 In the past Muslim invaders have plundered Hindu temples on a massive scale. In this connection, a video of a Muslim man glorifying Mohammad Ghaznavi, also known as Mahmud of Ghazni, the notorious Islamist marauder who repeatedly assaulted and plundered the Somnath Temple, has gone viral on the internet. The video was taken on the beach near the historic temple by the man himself. The man in the video honours Islamist attackers, including Mohammad Ghaznavi, for assaulting and robbing the Temple. The man also invites fellow Muslims to learn about their “glorious past” and to inspire others to do…
Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh later this month, officials from the Ministry of Water Management of India and Bangladesh will meet in Delhi tomorrow to discuss issues related to river water sharing and flood forecasting. The Indian delegation will be led by Pankaj Kumar, Secretary of the Jal Shakti Ministry. Bangladesh will be led by senior secretary Kabir Bin Anwar, sources said. Sources said the two sides would negotiate water sharing between the rivers Manu, Muhuri, Khowai, Gumti, Dudhkumar and Dharla. Discussions are also likely to take place on the withdrawal of water from the Feni…