Coronavirus: A week ago, an employee at the NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California was tested positive for the virus.

The tech entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket to transport NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a first for the space agency as it looks to cut costs.

The space agency is shutting down its Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, where the Space Launch System rocket is being built, and the nearby Stennis Space Center, administrator Jim Bridenstine said late Thursday.

The tests could reveal the true extent of the outbreak and help separate the healthy from the sick. But some scientists have challenged their accuracy.

Efforts of all the countries to stop the damage to the Ozone layer seem to be paying off as the damage to the Ozone layer above Antarctica has recovered.

A total of 12,000 applicants applied to become astronauts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The report claims that the development could help seismologists detect earthquakes of even very small magnitude, signals of which were earlier drowned in the cacophony produced by various activities.

One of the major lunar events India is going to witness this week is a Pink Super Moon. This appearance of the moon is considered as the brightest and the biggest.

Seismic noise is a relatively persistent vibration of the ground that is usually an unwanted component of signals recorded by seismometers, according to the scientists.

Weeks of lockdown in the country to fight coronavirus may have reduced greenhouse gas emissions enabling people to breathe cleaner air and feast on blue skies, but it is only a temporary phase and will not benefit the environment in the long run.

Weeks of lockdown in the country to fight coronavirus may have reduced greenhouse gas emissions enabling people to breathe cleaner air and feast on blue skies, but it is only a temporary phase and will not benefit the environment in the long run.

Termed "a successful failure", the spacecraft which had three astronauts- James Lovell Jr, Fred Haise Jr, and John Swigert Jr- on board managed to return to the Earth despite facing an explosion like situation after a blast in its oxygen tank.

The department has also released the expected date when the monsoon will hit some important cities and areas of the country in terms of monsoon onset and withdrawal.

The planet, being called Kepler-1649c, was discovered by the team when they were looking through the data of previous observations from the Kepler telescope, which had been retired by NASA in 2018.

For any administration, it is extremely important to remain prepared for various possible eventualities and the likelihood of any country requiring to witness two natural disasters together, just cannot be ruled out.

The less distance from Kepler 1649 c's host red-dwarf star, scientists believe, puts the exoplanet in the habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the world's surface.

"The discovery of this exceptional system has been made possible thanks to the acquisition of a great number of measurements, as well as a dramatic improvement of the instrument and of our signal processing techniques," said Francois Bouchy, a professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in Switzerland.

People can be drivers of drastic, aggressive, and effective solutions. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis is a great example of how people around the world can join forces to fight a disaster together.

China National Space Administration (CNSA) named the Mars mission as "Tianwen," which means Heavenly Questions or Questions to Heaven, a poem written by China's well known poet Qu Yuan (340-278 BC).

The proposals have been sought by the Directorate of Human Space Programme of the Bangalore-headquartered ISRO for a total of 18 tentative technology development areas.

It refers to the difficulty of the direction that takes the small hole around its partner-a difficulty that the research team has now integrated into a highly sophisticated model.

In the Gaganyaan mission, the first of three flights was scheduled within a year, initial two flights to be unmanned but with humanoids onboard.

Fusarium wilt with tropical race 4 (TR4) strain is a soil-borne fungal disease that affects mainly cavendish varieties of banana.

The discovery was made by a group of astronomers led by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (UH IfA). The new plant was discovered after studying six years of data.

Super Flower Moon 2020: Scintillating images of the full moon, also a 'supermoon', are being shared from across the world.

Family consisting of Old aged parents with 3 children (1-daughter & 2-sons,), all 3 are married living separately with their successors. Elder son purchased a house in year 2005 out his own earnings & later in year 2013 due to family disputes viz. Divorce & DVC with his wife transferred the said house in the name of his mother through registered settlement deed. Presently, all his cases are disposed. Please clarify (1) whether his sister, brother or their children/successors has any right to claim the above said house as the same is presently in the name of his mother. (2) Should he make a fresh settlement deed & transfer back the house on his name to avoid any future disputes from his siblings or their successors.

In 2010 recruitment of third gred teacher in Sanskrit Department of Rajasthan the rajasthan High court passed a order on 2 august to dismiss 3rd gred teachers after servicing more than 6 month in sanskrit dept.due to merit list changed by RPSC.This order challenged in supreme court & honorable bench of judge G S SINGHVI ,GOPAL GOWDA & C. NAGAPPaN passed stay order in september 2013 against high court`s dismiss order& issued notice .How Can i know what will happened the final decision of supreme court since it has been long time .

My father had bought land in Pune in 1987 and 7-12 of the land has Ku.Ka. 84 Kas Patra remark on it. In 2017, we sold same land to other person. Now he is asking for our Agriculturist Certificate to transfer 7-12 on his name but we do not have any agriculturist certificate as nobody from our has any farmland. Can i get Agriculturist Certificate if my wife has agriculture land on her name. Please advice. Thank you.

Sunday 10 th May -- 2020 -- Mother's Day -- Best Wishes to All -- " There is no influence So Powerful , as that of the Mother " -- Sara Joseph Hale.

Dear all, I am from Pondicherry, my dad like to bought a land form the seller in 2004 so he was paid some amount as a advance and put a agreement for register the particular land within certain period also seller agree & allow to pay the remaining amount of cash at the time of registration . unfortunately seller met with an accident before the registration date. seller have one minor son and wife. Seller have brother and sisters. while his dead that land his combined with his family members land. At that time situation is if anyone want to sell their land all the family members has to sign for registration. After his dead their family members divided their lands and register their parts individually. But our seller land is comes under his mother name. she refuse to sell that particular land to us even we put agreement. so my dad decided to file a case againsed his family. we file the case after the agreement date closed but we pay sum amount of money to the seller wife during his dead and also we mentioned that in agreement paper by manual writing and got signature from his wife in the same agreement paper. if we counting date from 2nd payment we file the case before one year. Now they ask current market rate for the land otherwise they won't do register. From 2004 to till date we lived in that particular land because we clearly mentioned on the agreement from the date of making the agreement to registration we lived in the particular land without paying any rent. My queastions: 1. if the agreement valid after the duration over 2. we lived their for past 15 years is any legal way to ask ownership 3. we got positive judgment from pondicherry court for ex-party. So they re appeal in chennai court now chennai court returened the file to pondicherry for judgement. 4. Any previous cases are their like our case. Note: I am note sure if i express everything understandable. i hope i will explain our full case through phone for better understanding. please provide your number so i will explain clearly about my case. Please help me to get positive judgment from court. my contact number - 9894448328

The 11-member high-level BJP delegation led by general secretary Arun Singh also urged China to take measures to increase imports from India so that the $57.86 billion trade deficit could be brought down.

Underscoring that the situation in Kashmir is bigger than party issues, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti refused to meet a delegation of her party members.

Artists in Iraq’s southern port city of Basra have adapted the beloved characters of Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate) -- a 10-season period drama widely watched across the Arab world -- to convince their compatriots to take the pandemic seriously

Straightforward but compassionate, Wolf’s film affectionately documents the heady people and ambitious ideas that fuelled Biosphere II, relating an almost too-perfect metaphor for our feeble -- and perhaps doomed -- efforts to escape our own self-destructive nature

Formula E uses electric vehicles and hence these lithium-ion batteries go through the perfect endurance tests, with learnings percolating to road-legal vehicles in future.

Work visa rules have modified in a move designed by the government to lessen exploitation and promote migrant worker conditions.The latest rules came into force on 7 October 2019, involve workers having a minimum base salary of $79,560 to be eligible…

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Pakistan Supreme Court has passed an Order on 30th April to make amendments in the Gilgit Baltistan Order of 2018 to conduct the general assembly elections in that area.India has lodged a strong protest with Islamabad against these directions of the

Delhi Police has filed cases linked to an Instagram Group named ‘Bois Locker Room’. This online group allegedly involved teenage boys, who casually talked about rape, slut- shamming and sexual objectification of underage girls. They degra

Subordinate Courts to conduct hearing of less urgent matter as well, says MP HC; interim bail period also extended by 45 days.A circular has been issued by the Madhya Pradesh High Court, to expand the Scope of matters to be heard by the lower courts

WHAT HAS HAPPENED?While India was already dealing with the increasing number of Covid-19 case and a terrorist attack in Hardwar which martyred 6 military personnel, the nation today woke up to the terrible news of styrene gas leak in the outskirts of

In 2015, journalist Sandhya Ravishankar had written articles for the Economic Times on illegal beach sand mining in Tamil Nadu. A case of criminal defamation was filed against the journalist which was quashed by the Madras HC on Wednesday. The HC mad

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to entertain a plea seeking direction to the Centre to ensure compliance with the MHA order directing landlords to neither ask students and labourers to vacate the premises nor to seek rent for a month during the

The Madras High Court on Monday refused to entertain a writ petitions seeking absolute ban on manufacture, sale and consumption of alcohol in the state of Tamil Nadu. The Madras High Court on April 17th had declined a plea seeking sale of liquor at l

What has happened?In the late evening hours of Saturday, purported screenshots of chats between boys and girls in a group called the “Bois Locker Room” started making rounds on social media. By early morning of Sunday, the screenshots had

I have written several articles about how to work with continuous probability distributions in SAS. I always emphasize that it is important to be able to compute the four essential functions for working with a statistical distribution. Namely, you need to know how to generate random values, how to compute [...]

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Death is always a difficult topic to discuss, and death has been in the news a lot during this tragic coronavirus pandemic. Many news stories focus on states, counties, or cities that have the most cases or the most deaths. A related statistic is the case fatality rate, which is [...]

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A previous article describes the funnel plot (Spiegelhalter, 2005), which can identify samples that have rates or proportions that are much different than expected. The funnel plot is a scatter plot that plots the sample proportion of some quantity against the size of the sample. The variance of the sample [...]

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World Cup record scorer Miroslav Klose has signed a one-year contract to become Bayern Munich assistant coach under head coach Hansi Flick from next season, the Bundesliga champions said Thursday.

Teams will be allowed up to five substitutions per match, instead of the usual three, as a temporary measure to help cope with potential fixture congestion in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus outbreak, FIFA said Friday.