While people are celebrating Halloween, NASA has released brilliant images of the newly discovered ‘greater pumpkin’. Images from the US space agency’s Hubble Space Telescope show what looks like a giant jack-o’-lantern in outer space. According to NASA, the cosmic ‘Greater Pumpkin’ which looks like a Halloween decoration tucked away in a patch of sky is actually a picture of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies. While sharing the video and the image on its website, NASA wrote, “Sorry Charlie Brown, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is taking a peek at what might best be described as the…
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope was used to study a rare metal asteroid, discovered in 1852, which could have been a protoplanet. According to scientists, the ‘unique’ asteroid named 16 Psyche is made of iron and nickel and has been lurking between Mars and Jupiter. As per a study published in The Planetary Science Journal, 16 Psyche is dense and mostly made of metal, possibly the leftover core of a planet that never succeeded in forming a so-called “protoplanet” which had its core exposed following hit-and-run collisions that removed the body of its mantle. Dr Tracy Becker, a scientist from the…
November 1 marks former Miss World Aishwarya Rai’s birthday. This year, the superstar will celebrate her 47th birthday. In the recent past, one of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan’s fan pages on Instagram shared the actor’s pictures clubbed with Maharani Gayatri Devi’s pictures. This rare image will surely make one wonder if Aishwarya Rai Bachchan would make the perfect Maharani Gayatri Devi. Take a look at Aishwarya Rai’s unseen photo. https://www.instagram.com/p/CFFFtY8CMdT/?utm_source=ig_embed The fan account shared the pictures of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan clubbed with Maharani Gayatri Devi’s pics. All these pics of Aishwarya are the actor’s throwback pictures and stills from her movies.…
Tabu is one of the finest actors of the Hindi film industry. She has delivered many blockbuster films. Audiences also love her for the different and eccentric characters she plays on the screen. Here is one of Tabu’s unseen pictures as a child which was clicked with her mother and sister. In one of the rare and unseen black and white photos of actor Tabu with her mother and sister, Tabu is seen sitting on the lap of her mother with her palm folded in a ball. Her mother Rizwana Hashmi has her arms around Tabu. She is wearing a…
Tamil Nadu government allows schools, colleges, cinemas, zoos, and amusement parks to reopen from next month by following standard operating procedures. Suburban train services, according to the central government’s decision, are “allowed” to resume. Schools, all colleges, research, and other educational institutions, and hostels would be allowed to open from November 16, Chief Minister K. Palaniswami said in an official release. As regards schools, classes for standards 9-12 alone shall be conducted, he said. Using up to 50 per cent seats, cinema theatres, multiplexes, zoos, and amusement parks shall resume functioning from November 10. The SOP should be followed, Palaniswami…
In a setback to the ruling CPI-M in Kerala, the son of one of its tallest leaders, M.M. Lawerence, joined the BJP on Saturday. Abraham Lawerence, who’s an an advocate by profession, announced his decision to join the BJP on Saturday, saying he was fed up with the recent happenings in the party. He was welcomed by BJP spokesperson A.N. Radhakrishnan, and national President J.P. Nadda will officially induct him into the party through an online function next week. M.M. Lawerence (91), the former Lok Sabha member from Idukki, was an ex-Central Committee member of the party. He was also…
Pakistan resorted to small arms firing and mortar shelling on Sunday to target Indian positions along the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K’s Poonch district. Colonel Devender Anand, defence ministry spokesman said at about 7.30 a.m. today, Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation by firing with small arms and shelling with mortars along the LoC in Shahpur, Kirni and Qasba sectors of Poonch district. “The Indian Army is retaliating befittingly,” the spokesman said. Since the beginning of this year, Pakistan has with impunity violated the bilateral ceasefire agreement signed by the two countries in 1999. Twenty-four civilians have been killed and…
Bihar election fever has reached its peak with the second phase of polling due on November 3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four back-to-back rallies today to garner support for the NDA candidates in the poll-bound state. PM Modi will start his Sunday election tour with a rally at 10 am in Chapra, the political bastion of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad. Then he will go to Samastipur to address a public meeting in Housing Board ground, then at Gandhi maidan in Motihari and will end the campaign trip with a rally in Bagaha. On October 29, Bihar entered its…
Eleven people were arrested for cow killing in Badaun in UP. The Badaun police has invoked National Security Act (NSA) against 11 people arrested on charges of cow slaughtering on October 8. The accused, aged between 25 and 50 years, are lodged in the Badaun district jail. “Police sent its report to the district magistrate and on completion of due procedure, the DM has invoked NSA against the 11 accused,” said Praveen Singh Chauhan, Additional Superintendent of Police, Badaun. Among those arrested, nine of them are residents of Gurupuri Chandan village, while two others are from neighbouring Dalmai village. Three…
https://twitter.com/FarhanZuberi1/status/1321834137045487617?s=20 Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) student leader Farhan Zuberi, who had not only justified the horrific beheadings of non-Muslims by Islamic terrorists in France but also had threatened to behead people for disrespecting Islam has reportedly been booked by the police, according to Times Now. Additional SP of Aligarh has said, “At around 4 pm on 29 Oct, a local student leader named Farhan Zuberi was leading a protest march against a French cartoon of Prophet Muhammad. In relation to that, threats to life & property were made in a speech. A case registered against Farhan”. https://twitter.com/ANINewsUP/status/1322518484853559299?s=20 Sources have said…