The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption. The solar flare occurred at about 11pm EST (0400 GMT) on Sunday and will hit Earth with three different effects at three different times. The biggest issue is radiation, according [...]

Information sought under the Right to Information Act, 2005 from public authorities must be provided within 30 days as per the legislation. But even the Madras High Court does not seem to follow the time limit scrupulously as it had not provided information sought by an applicant even after one year since the application was [...]

The schedule of Chennai – Egmore – Guwahati weekly express (train no 15629) and chennai – Egmore – Dilbrugarh weekly express has been revised due to late running of pairing trains. According to an official release, the Guwahati bound train will start at 12.05 am on January 11 instead of the scheduled 10.30 pm on [...]

List of Indian festivals and holidays in 2012: January 14 (Saturday): Makar Sankranti January 26 (Thursday): Republic Day January 15 (Sunday): Pongal January 28 (Saturday): Basanta Panchami/Sri Panchami February 5 (Sunday): Milad-un-Nabi or Id-e-Milad (Birthday of Prophet Mohammad) February 7 (Tuesday): Guru Ravidas’ Birthday February 16 (Thursday): Swami Dayananda Saraswati Jayanti February 19 (Sunday): Shivaji [...]

Ruing lack of competent mathematicians in the country, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared 2012 on Monday Year of Mathematics. He was addressing a function at Anna University in Chennai to celebrate eminent mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujans’s 125th birth centenary. PM said students had failed to pursue mathematics at advanced levels for more than three decades, which, [...]

New beginning to be made thereafter Many prophecies are doing the rounds about the world coming to an end in 2012 and a new beginning to be made thereafter. But with many predicted doomsdays having failed to materialize, Indian astrologers are firm in their belief that life in this world will continue. They say so [...]

The Tamil Nadu government will launch a statewide baseline survey incorporating the socia-economic benefits and also the identification of villages across the state for implementing the Tamil Nadu Biodiversirt Conservation and Greening Project (TBGP) over a period of eight years from 2011-2012. The process of evaluation and monitoring will be entrusted with a professional agency [...]