News

Apart from NASA's desperate attempts to get the Artemis-1 mission back on schedule; a cute Arctic wolf pup from China, a Don't Look Up-esque situation regarding an asteroid, as well as a disturbing new study that links nightmares and dementia, make up this week's science updates that you might have missed.

Sri Lanka's economic crisis doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon. The little island nation with a population of 2.19 crore is experiencing an economic disaster not seen in the last seven decades.

In his message to the world leaders at UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Zelenskyy questioned why India, Japan Brazil and Ukraine are not permanent members of the UNSC? The five permanent members are UK, China, US, Russia and France.

In a rare astronomical event, Jupiter will come closest to the Earth in a few days. The largest planet in the solar system had come this close to Earth 59 years back.

Approximately 66% of the 542 Indian pilots who participated in a recent study on "daytime sleepiness" acknowledged falling asleep in the cockpit without alerting the rest of the crew. They also admitted to having micro episodes of nodding off. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to mobilise the reserve forces has led to an exodus over the country's borders. Even draft-age Russians (18-65) were rushing out of the country after Putin's order of calling up 3,00,000 military reservists to join the troops in Ukraine.

Diabetes, a non-communicable disease, affects a lot of people every year. India's diabetes numbers are scarier than ever. A recent Lancet study has also stressed on India's worrisome diabetes statistics.

With Meta Platform co-founder Mar Zuckerberg announcing his third child with wife Priscilla Chan, we take a look at the richest people in the world and their many lines of succession.

Swiggy and Zomato allowed it; Infosys detested it and now Wipro has fired over 300 employees because of it! Moonlighting AKA handling two jobs at once emerged as a rising trend as more and more people worked from home during the pandemic. 

In the contempt proceedings case, former Pakistan PM Imran Khan expressed his willingness to apologize to the female judge Zeba Chaudhry whom he had threatened in one of his rallies in Islamabad on August 20.