The National Testing Agency released the final results of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) 2024 on Friday. In the revised result, rank 1 is achieved by 17 students who scored a total of 720 marks and a pass percentile of 99.9992714. The number of toppers has reduced from 67 to 17. Initially, the…
JD Vance, former US President Donald Trump’s running mate, has defended his 2021 remarks where he referred to Democratic politicians as a “bunch of childless cat ladies with miserable lives”. JD Vance, who appeared on The Megyn Kelly Show on Friday, said “Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats. People are…
Physicists might be one step closer to creating element 120, the heaviest element ever known, thanks to a recent breakthrough. Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have successfully produced two atoms of livermorium, element 116, using a titanium particle beam. This achievement is a crucial first step towards synthesising the elusive element…
The GROWTH-India telescope at the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Ladakh recently captured a building-sized asteroid on its approach to Earth. Taking to X (formerly Twitter) Varun Bhalerao, Astrophysicist at the Space Technology and Astrophysics Research (STAR) lab at IIT Bombay, shared the image of the asteroid. He said that the telescope tracked the asteroid’s rapid…
Several people are feared trapped after a three-storey building collapsed in Navi Mumbai’s Shahbaz village on Saturday morning. Navi Mumbai Deputy Fire Officer Purushottam Jadhav said that two people have been rescued and two are likely to be trapped. “We received a call about a building collapse at 4.50 am. Two people have been rescued….
Karachi has been ranked as the second-riskiest city for tourists, with a rating of 93.12 out of 100, according to a July 11 Forbes Adviser list, reported Dawn. The July 11 Forbes Adviser list of three of the riskiest cities highlighted that Karachi was second just behind Venezuela’s Caracas, which had a score of 100,…
The National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to release the results for the Common University Entrance Test, Undergraduate (CUET UG) 2024 today. Â Candidates who appeared in the exam will be able to check the results by visiting the official website of the CUET UG. They will be required to enter their login credentials to access…
A 20-year-old marketing executive from Northamptonshire, England, has gone viral on social media following her incredible weight loss. Millie Slater shared a TikTok video that showed off her dramatic transformation-from 115 kilogrammes in January 2023 to now being very lean at 67 kilogrammes. The viral video, which featured Ms Slater’s toned physique, has already pulled…
More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis in four days, the United Nations said Friday, after an Israeli operation to extract captives’ bodies from the area. Recent “intensified hostilities” in the Khan Yunis area, more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas war, have fuelled “new waves…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Kyiv next month for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, sources have said. This comes a month after PM Modi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Italy. The two leaders were seen sharing a hug as they…