Floods in Southeast Asia
Two cyclones - Senyar and Ditwah, led to floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia. India remains on alert.
Emergency declared in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has been facing a difficult situation for the last few months. Over the last two weeks, Sri Lanka witnessed mass action by a…
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Bhuvan: India in 3D and so much more
All of us have seen Google maps and the satellite images of our neighbourhood. Can you tilt the image just a little bit and go…
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Sanskrit Sukti on being prudent
ऋणशेषं चाग्निशेषं शत्रुशेषं तथैव च व्याधिशेषं च नि: शेषं कृत्वा प्राज्ञो न सीदति अर्थ ऋण (कर्ज़), अग्नि , शत्रु, और व्याधि (बीमारी) को शेष न…
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Some GIS Portals that all of us should know about
Here are some amazing GIS (Geospatial Information System) portals made for Indians. All of them take data from ISRO satellites (Indian satellites, no foreign dependence)…
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School Bhuvan: Understanding India – One Map at a time, courtesy ISRO
If you are a school student, you have definitely done the maps of India. And sometimes, they can be really hard to remember. Where are…
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Sanskrit Sukti on self-respect
मनस्विनो न मन्यन्ते परत: प्राप्य जीवनम् बलिभुग्भ्यो न काकेभ्य: स्पृहयन्ति हि कोकिला: मनस्वी लोग नहीं मानते, किसी और से पाया हुआ जीवन बलि पर जीने…
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What is GPT 3 and why did it write an academic research paper?
GPT 3 is a project of Open AI. What is Open AI? Open AI is a research and deployment company which works on Artificial General…
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So, what is happening on the Twitter takeover?
In April 2022 (sometime around April 25th), Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, SpaceX, and one of the people backing OpenAI, announced that he would…
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How it started: Printed Books
Feature by Vedant Hingu The first books were written out by hand, but this took a very long time and meant that only a fewbooks…
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Save the date: NASA unveils list of first targets for JWST, Watch them live on July 12
Report by Swasti Sharma NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the most recent launch by NASA. It is the product of collaboration between NASA (National Aeronautics and…
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