The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
Spanning some 120,000–180,000 light-years in diameter, the Milky Way galaxy is our cosmic home. Our planet and the Solar system are on the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, which is roughly 27,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center. During clear nights we can see a whole cluster of stars from our galaxy which run across the horizon.
All this light and stars that we can see from the cosmos above interestingly is only 10% of the entire galaxy. The rest 90% is dark matter per most scientists!
The bright and beautiful Milky Way of ours has over 200 billion stars, which makes it a medium sized galaxy. There are some large ones which have far more – like the IC 1101,with over 100 trillion stars! When we look above on a starry night we see some of those 200 billion stars of our galaxy in that lighted cluster! Some photographers have tried to capture the milky way from across the planet. Photos that are nothing short of stunning! Here are 51 of those which will not just help you marvel about our own planet but its place in the overall cosmic perspective.
'The Vaccine War' is a beautiful story of very complex times. Vivek Agnihotri has weaved together a masterpiece dealing with a subject very few would have touched. The pandemic and the triumph of India.
This week's bouquet brings discussion on Medieval Urine Exam, futuristic Space Station, collapse of the Music Industry, Spinsters revolution, and Africa's Oil
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