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An employee walks in the water tank of the metropolitan outer underground discharge channel in Kasukabe, Saitama prefecture. - It has been called Japans underground \Parthenon,\ a cavernous complex charged with protecting Tokyo and surrounding areas from catastrophic flooding -- a risk experts warn is growing as climate change advances. (AFP)World
The underground 'Parthenon' protecting Tokyo from floods

In Tokyo alone there are 10 other underground reservoirs and three flood tunnels, and more flood-protection structures...

12 Oct 2020 12:03 PM IST

An Atlas Centaur 7 rocket on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASAs leading asteroid expert, Paul Chodas, speculates that asteroid 2020 SO, as it is formally known, is actually a Centaur upper rocket stage that propelled NASAs Surveyor 2 lander to the moon in 1966 before it was discarded. (AP)Science
Fake asteroid? NASA expert IDs mystery object as old rocket

The rocket swept past the moon and into orbit around the sun as intended junk, never to be seen again until perhaps now

12 Oct 2020 11:40 AM IST

View of Mumbai city skyline. Large parts of the financial capital reported major power outage on Monday morning due to a technical failure. (PTI)Metros
Major power outage across Mumbai due to grid failure

Suburban local train services, operating only for essential workers at present, were affected from 10 am, sources said

12 Oct 2020 11:35 AM IST

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020. Tsai said Saturday she has hopes for less tensions with China and in the region if Beijing will listen to Taipeis concerns, alter its approach and restart dialogue with the self-ruled island democracy. (AP)World
Taiwan claims entrapment after China shows spy 'confession'

China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, has repeatedly denounced Taipei for offering support to Hong Kong's...

12 Oct 2020 10:51 AM IST

A man waits for a bus on a polluted day in Beijing. Qingdao has already locked down Qingdao Chest Hospital as well as the emergency department of its central hospital. (AFP)World
China's Qingdao orders city-wide COVID-19 testing following new...

Daily COVID-19 infections in mainland China has fallen drastically from peaks early this year, but the country remains...

12 Oct 2020 10:43 AM IST

Experiments done at 20, 30 and 40 degrees C showed the virus survived longer at cooler temperatures, longer on smooth surfaces than on complex surfaces such as cotton, and longer on paper banknotes than on plastic banknotes. (Representational Image:AFP)Science
Australian study finds coronavirus can last 28 days on glass, currency

Findings from the study show that in a very controlled environment the virus remains infectious for longer than other...

12 Oct 2020 10:32 AM IST

CSK skipper M.S. Dhoni with his daughter Ziva at the post match ceremony. (Photo: BCCI)India
Teenager held for issuing rape threats against M S Dhoni's daughter...

The nature of the threat had caused a huge outrage on social media, with several celebrities expressing disgust and...

12 Oct 2020 10:15 AM IST

Microsoft did not assess which foreign adversary poses the greater threat to the integrity of the November presidential election. The consensus among cybersecurity experts is that Russian interference is the gravest. (Photo | AP)Business
Microsoft to expand work from home policy, make it permanent for some...

The company has released the new 'hybrid workplace' guidance that lays out how employees can have a more flexible remote...

12 Oct 2020 8:44 AM IST

South Korean police officers wearing face masks and face shields patrol to block protesters possible rallies against the government in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Seoul city temporarily banned outdoor rallies with 10 or more people over infection risks against the spread of the coronavirus. (AP)World
South Korea eases social distancing curbs amid COVID-19 downtrend

Daily infections have fallen largely into the double-digit range in the past two weeks

11 Oct 2020 5:19 PM IST

Rescuers carry away the body of a victim at the blast site hit by a rocket during the fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, in the city of Ganja, Azerbaijan, on October 11, 2020. (AFP)World
Nagorno-Karabakh truce under severe strain as both sides allege...

Both sides accused one another of breaking the ceasefire almost immediately on Saturday

11 Oct 2020 5:10 PM IST

Human activity such as population (growth) and transport combined with climate change increases antibacterial resistance... and therefore the need for more pharmaceuticals. (Photo: AFP)Business
Pharma market reports growth in September

Anti-infectives therapy showed a good recovery of 1.4 per cent in September against 11 per cent y-o-y decline in August

11 Oct 2020 2:41 PM IST

It all began with British historian Edward Anderson responding to a question from food aggregator with this innocuous statement on Twitter, \Idlis are the most boring things in the world.\ (Pixabay)Life
All about an idli: British professor's tweet sparks not so 'boring'...

The steamed rice and lentil 'cake' - a pan India favourite - is suddenly much talked about and much discussed

11 Oct 2020 2:28 PM IST

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