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London, Dec 1: Researchers have come up with an innovative laser technology that uses Raman spectroscopy which may help avoid road accidents on icy roads during winters. They have detected a problematic substance known as 'hydrohalite', which forms on icy roads. Hydrohalite is normally left unremoved, as it does not respond to the conventional de-icing method of road surface salting. Once formed...

Hyderabad, Nov 28: Hamish Finlayson, 13, is the youngest entrepreneur who will be showcasing his gaming and awareness apps at the high-profile Global Entrepreneurship Summit here. The Australia-based entrepreneur, who is studying in 7th grade, has so far developed five apps including the one to save turtles, and is currently working on the sixth one for increasing awareness about traffic rules. "I...

Bengaluru, Nov 23: A 27-year-old woman executive with Air Mauritius was sexually assaulted by her senior manager at a hotel room in Bengaluru on November 18. The woman lodged a complaint with the Cubbon Park police, who arrested and jailed the man. The man has been identified as Rajesh Busgeet (55), a resident of Chennai and the regional manager-South India, Air Mauritius, police said. The police...

Melbourne, Nov 22: Indian mining giant Adani is close to securing loans from China to build a 388-km railway in Queensland for its controversy-hit 16.5 billion dollars Carmichael coal mine project, a media report said today. According to the report, days ago, a director of Adani Mining, an Australian subsidiary of the Adani Group's flagship company Adani Enterprises, told industry figures that the...

Kolkata, Nov 21: The West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission has awarded compensation in one of the eight cases, which it has heard in the last six months after it was constituted following after the West Bengal Clinical Establishment (Registration, Regulation and Transparency) Act, 2017 came into force. Some of the provisions of the Act are similar to the controversial Karnataka...

Jerusalem, Nov 20: Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry birds may be used as a fuel for heat and electricity generation, reducing greenhouse gases and providing an alternative energy source, a study has found. The treated excrement when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace about 10 per cent of coal used in electricity generation, according to a study...

Nov 18: Tesla's very first car is back. It's red. It's fast. And it will cost you upward of $200,000. The Roadster, the electric sports car that put the automaker on the map, made a surprising appearance at Tesla's semi-truck event late Thursday. The next-generation Roadster is Tesla's first new sports car since it discontinued the original in 2012, and marks the company's bid to remain...

Managluru, Nov 17: The Mangalore Management Association will confer the MMA Outstanding Manager Award to Shree Devi Educational Institutions Chairman A Sadananda Shetty. Briefing reporters here, president Marcel Monteiro said that the award will be given away at Ocean Pearl in Mangaluru on November 23. Shetty is a self-made entrepreneur who has excelled as an educationist. He has been instrumental...

Thrissur(Ker), Nov 14: Three persons were arrested early today in connection with the killing of an RSS worker at Nenmeni near the temple town of Guruvayur, police said. The 23-year-old Anandan, who was riding a motorcycle, had been knocked down by a car carrying his attackers and then hacked to death on November 12. Those arrested included a brother of Fazil, who was killed four years ago and...

Nov 13: There's a theory that giant crabs overwhelmed Amelia Earhart, dismembered her and carried her bones underground. Speculative, at best. Sounds crazy, we know. But so has almost every other horrifying rumor about the so-called coconut crabs - until science inevitably proves them true. They grow to the size of dogs. They climb trees, and tear through solid matter with claws nearly as strong...