Most people think mantra chanting simply means repeating a sacred phrase again and again. But traditional spiritual systems never treated all chanting as the same practice. The method changes the experience. The energy changes. The impact on the mind changes too.Some forms make the atmosphere powerful. Some pull the mind inward. Some sharpen concentration. Some…
Photo credit: X/@Space_Station A strong geomagnetic storm is expected to impact Earth on June 8, renewing interest in one of nature’s most spectacular phenomena, Aurora. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a G3 (Strong) geomagnetic storm watch following the eruption of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun.According to NOAA…
NEW DELHI: In a move to end the confusion of price to quantity printed on edible oil packets, govt is looking to bring uniformity. Against the current practice of manufacturers mentioning packet sizes such as 650, 700, 810, 850 and 870 grams, the new norm would be 200 ml, 500 ml, 1-5 litres, 15 litres…
Employee says helping senior during manager’s leave hurt appraisal, sparks workplace hierarchy debate A software professional’s Reddit post has sparked a discussion around workplace hierarchy, reporting structures and performance reviews after he claimed that helping a senior executive during his manager’s absence affected his appraisal rating.The employee, who identified himself as a software engineer with…
NEW DELHI: As TMC faces its biggest crisis in West Bengal, there is growing speculation over the future of its contingent of MPs in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, the impact developments in Bengal will have on the heft of the second largest opposition party within INDIA bloc and its overall ramifications on Opposition’s capacity…
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, but what lies beneath its battered surface is anything but small. Its metallic core stretches out to nearly 85 per cent of the planet’s total radius, leaving behind a rocky shell so thin it barely qualifies as a shell at…
NVS recruitment revised rules 2026: The Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), under the Ministry of Education, Government of India, has issued the NVS Recruitment (Revised) Rules, 2026 for several teaching and non-teaching posts. The official notice was released today, on February 11, 2026, and the revised rules have come into force from today.According to the notice,…
Trivedi was reacting to Ansari’s reference to former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s view that the “real danger to India was not communism, but Hindu right-wing communalism”. NEW DELHI: BJP MP and national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi on Monday hit out at former vice-president Hamid Ansari over his recent remarks on Hindu nationalism, accusing the Congress of…
Japanese macaque. Image Credit: Wikipedia The relocation of 38 macaques from Japan to Austria in 1996 created a unique opportunity to follow a primate population from its first days in a new environment. The animals were moved from the Minoo-H group in Osaka Prefecture to Affenberg Landskron, a forested enclosure in southern Austria. Over the…
Spider webs may hold a surprising record of the animals living nearby. A study found that genetic traces from terrestrial vertebrates can be collected directly from spider webs, turning the structures into passive filters for environmental DNA. Researchers tested 49 webs from an Australian wildlife sanctuary and Perth Zoo and detected vertebrate DNA in every…
