BARS app

Facebook has unveiled a new app called BARS to enable users to create and share raps. It has features for assisting those with little to no experience of rapping. Developed by the social media giant’s New Product Experimentation (NPE) R&D ..

Ravidas Jayanti

Ravidas Jayanti is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of Saint Guru Ravidas. It is celebrated on Mugh Purnima, the full moon day in the month of Magh. This year, 644th birth anniversary of Guru Ravidas is observed. It is ..

Bir Chilarai

Bir Chilarai is a renowned general of Koch Royal Dynasty of Assam. He played a key role in the expansion of the empire of his elder brother, Maharaja Nara Narayan. Bir Chilarai is the son of Maharaja Viswa Singha, the ..

Department of Biotechnology

The 35th foundation day of Department of Biotechnology was celebrated recently. The DBT is in charge of administering the development and commercialisation of advanced biology and biotechnology. During this virtual event, DBT’s achievement was highlighted and the Biotechnology Research Innovation ..

Pompeii

Pompeii is an archaeological site in southern Italy’s Campania region near the coast of the Bay of Naples. It is buried under mounds of ash and pumice after the volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. A well-preserved four-wheeled ..

Black browed babbler

Black browed babbler (Malacocincla perspicillata) was spotted for the first time in many years in October last year. It was sighted in South Kalimantan province in Indonesian Borneo. This is the first sighting in more than a century. The only ..

Caracal

Caracal, which is found in parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat, was included in critically endangered species as it is under threat of extinction in India. Apart from India, this animal is found in several other countries across Africa, the Middle ..

Churmosquagogue

Churmosquagogue or the House of One is a sacred building under construction in Berlin, Germany. It seeks to bring Christians, Jews and Muslims to a single place of worship. The building incorporates a church, a mosque and a synagogue. It ..

Malaria elimination certificate

Malaria elimination certificate is given to a country that has successfully disrupted the local transmission of malaria for at least three consecutive years. El Salvador recently became the first country in Central America and the third in all Americas to ..

Reproduction number

Reproduction (R) number measures the contagiousness of a disease. If the number exceeds 1, each existing infection causes more than one new infection. In India, the reproduction number of COVID-19 has spiked recently, with it reaching 1.02 on February 21-23 ..