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The whale in Whalefall could technically swallow a person. There's no record one ever has

India, Oct. 17 -- In Whalefall, a survival thriller released in cinemas this month, a diver is swallowed whole by a sperm whale, the one whale with a throat wide enough to take a person, though no wha... और पढ़ें


Hijack scare on Air India flight: Code 7500 and the protocols it sets in motion

India, Oct. 14 -- Air India flight AI 2030, a Boeing 787-9 flying from Frankfurt to Delhi, was diverted to Jaipur on Wednesday morning after its pilot issued a hijacking alert, according to sources in... और पढ़ें


From London's Hyde Park to Delhi's Jantar Mantar, the idea and history of 'designated' protest sites

India, Oct. 13 -- In the summer of 1866, the Reform League, a movement campaigning to extend the vote to working men, called a meeting in Hyde Park, central London. That meeting, scheduled for July 23... और पढ़ें


Margaret Hamilton, who led Apollo's software team, and the women whose work shaped modern computing

India, Oct. 11 -- Hamilton, who died on September 30 aged 90, led the team that wrote Apollo's onboard flight software. She was one of many women whose computing work was recognised late. One day in ... और पढ़ें


CJP protest: The law that allows Delhi Police to set up barricades, checkpoints and restrict traffic

India, Oct. 10 -- Delhi Police closed off the approaches to Jantar Mantar with barricades on Saturday, ahead of a protest called by the Cockroach Janta Party against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanes... और पढ़ें


Ambedkar wanted no voter left out due to 'prejudice' or 'whim': The making of independent India's first electoral roll

India, Oct. 6 -- The task to compile independent India's first voter list was done by hand. Clerks, 16,500 of them, were hired on six-month contracts to type the rolls and collate them by constituenc... और पढ़ें


Plague never went away. Death of a 'lab technician' in Siberia is a reminder of what it does and the panic it causes

India, Oct. 3 -- A woman has died of plague in Russia's remote Irkutsk region in Siberia, Alexei Tsydenov, governor of the neighbouring region of Buryatia, said in a social media post on Friday. That... और पढ़ें


Fee behind every card swipe now comes to UPI: From 1950s dinner bills to QR codes, how the charge began, how it works

India, Sept. 16 -- Shops and businesses in India will pay a fee of 0.4% of the payment, capped at Rs.300, on UPI payments above Rs.2,000 from October 15. The change ends more than six years in which t... और पढ़ें


Bengaluru 'peptide party' called off: The Silicon Valley trend and what science says about it

India, Sept. 2 -- Advertised as India's first, the Bengaluru 'Peptide Party' was called off last week after the Karnataka Food Safety and Drug Administration (FSDA) served a notice to the organisers. ... और पढ़ें


India puts its clocks under one law: What the new Standard Time rules mean for banks, exchanges, telcos and the grid

India, Aug. 31 -- A failed UPI payment between two banks can be reconciled only if both banks' servers agree on when it was attempted. An investigator trying to reconstruct the order of trades in a ma... और पढ़ें