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Model airplanes and a placard reading Thanks to Smith Machchhar sit on display during a traditional Dasara doll exhibition (Gombe Habba), in Chikkamagaluru in Karnataka on Wednesday. Members of a team of scientists pose near an early warning system after its successful installation at Vasundhara Tal glacial lake to monitor potential flood risks in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand on Wednesday. People watch as 731 sets of martyrs’ remains found at Le Thi Rieng Cultural Park are transferred for...

GMRT detects radio signal emitted by atomic hydrogen from galaxies that existed more than eight billion years ago. A team of Indian astronomers has used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) near Pune to detect the average radio signal emitted by atomic hydrogen, known as the HI 21 cm signal, from galaxies that existed 8-9 billion years ago. The GMRT detection from the galaxies in a patch of sky known as the COSMOS field is only the second measurement of the average atomic hydrogen...

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has blinked. By deferring the introduction of a Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) until immediately after Diwali, policymakers have acknowledged a delicate economic reality that tampering with India’s primary digital economic engine right before the festive shopping peak could trigger an unwanted consumer slowdown. Yet, it appears that the era of entirely free digital liquidity is drawing to a close. The...