Hurricane Ida is the strongest storm to hit Louisiana in at least 165 years. It is a category 4 storm with winds up to 150 m/h (or 240 km/h).
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Month: August 2021
IRCTC’s Special Train ‘Bharat Darshan’ Starts the Tour
The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) ran a special tourist train ‘Bharat Darshan – Splendors of India’ from Sunday, 29th August.
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Bhavina wins historic silver at Tokyo Paralympics
Indian table tennis player Bhavinaben Patel signed off with a historic silver medal in her maiden Paralympic Games after an unfortunate loss to world number one Chinese paddler Ying Zhou in the women’s singles.
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Scientists Discover World’s Northernmost Island
A group of researchers have found the world’s northernmost island off the north coast of Greenland.
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Launch of 100-day SUJALAM campaign
Jal Shakti ministry has launched a 100-day SUJALAM campaign. The campaign aims to create one million soak pits in villages all over India in the next hundred days.
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Sports News: Tokyo Summer Paralympics 2020
Tokyo, Aug 28: Here is an update of India’s performance on day 4 of the Tokyo Summer Paralympics 2020.
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Asian Wasp nests glow fluorescent green under UV light
Scientists have recently for the first time have found that Asian paper wasp (genus Polistes) nest can glow in fluorescent green colour, when kept under UV (ultraviolet) rays.
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Discovery of Three huge Black Holes Joining Together
Three huge black holes (Black hole – is a location in space that possesses so much gravity that nothing can escape its pull) from three galaxies have merged together to form a triple active galactic nucleus
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Walking whale ancestor named after Egyptian god Anubis
Scientists in the Fayum Depression in western Egypt discovered the fossils of a whale ancestor which could walk on land and swim in water.
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First blue whale songs recorded in Indian waters
Marine mammal scientist Divya Panicker in the year 2019 in the Lakshadweep Islands was listening to recordings taped on underwater sound recorders when she came across low blue whale moans.
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