India and China have made “some progress” in disengagement, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday, describing the development as a “welcome” step. His comment comes days after Indian and Chinese troops completed disengagement at two friction points at Demchok and Depsang Plains in eastern Ladakh. The Indian Army commenced verification patrolling at Depsang, […]
Nearly seven decades after revolutionising clean energy, British engineer Francis Thomas Bacon’s groundbreaking work is set to be recognised with a blue plaque at his former residence in Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire. Mr Bacon, an Essex-born innovator, invented the hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell – a clean, high-efficiency power source – that helped propel Apollo 11’s historic moon […]
Despite lions’ power, speed, and capacity for pack hunting, a recent study found that animals on the African savanna are more afraid of people than lions. Lions should be the most feared since they are the largest land predators and hunt in packs, according to conservation biologist Michael Clinchy of Western University in Canada. “Normally, […]