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Researcher stumbles upon mysterious 5,000-year-old paintings depicting arrows and human-like figures

The drawings, around 4 inches in length, were discovered in the rocky area of ​​San Juan, near the town of Albuquerque in the province of Badajoz in western Spain.




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AI researcher had to remove basic grammar tools to get software to understand Donald Trump

The developers of a speech recognition bot assigned to analyze the public statements of politicians hit a major stumbling block when it tried to make sense of Donald Trump.




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EE customers see mobile bills rise 2.2% from March 

For customers paying £30 a month on their contract, the inflation-linked hike means an increase of 66p a month - or £7.92 a year.




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Garages, gardens and sea views are most searched for terms on Zoopla

It appears having a home complete with a garage and garden top the list of priorities for most home hunters, according to data from property website Zoopla.




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Can I build a green belt house of architectural merit under Paragraph 79?

I'm looking to buy some land in the commuter green belt. It is several acres and I would like to build a new house on it.




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This lawyer's start-up is building a search engine for legal professionals

Legitquest's AI-based platform helps lawyers with issues, reasoning, decisions, arguments and facts of all Supreme Court judgments since 1950




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ICMR and ICAR to collaborate for research on zoonotic diseases

Medical and agricultural research institutes ink MoU for cooperation in the area of zoonoses, anti-microbial resistance, nutrition and pesticide residues




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Sika opens research centre in UK

The centre will focus on research in the area of liquid roofing




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China limiting Mekong river's flow triggered drought in region, says US-based research

A US-based research company has found that China limited the flow of the Mekong River following the construction of a number of its sprawling dams in its territory in the backdrop of a severe drought in the region last year.The report comes at a time when the entire world is grappling with the coronavirus pandemic since late last year, when the virus first made its appearance in Wuhan, the capital of central China's Hubei province."The satellite data does not lie and there was plenty of water in the Tibetan Plateau, even as countries like Cambodia and Thailand were under extreme duress," said Alan Basist, who co-wrote the report, which was released on Monday, for Eyes on Earth, a water resources monitor."There was just a huge volume of water that was being held back in China," Basist was quoted by New York Times as saying.Farmers and fishermen across the Mekong region were devastated as the water level in portions of the river dwindled due to dams commissioned by China which has been .




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IRB Infra to sign concession agreement on Zozila pass by March

The scope of the project includes constructing approaches on NH-1 (Srinagar-Sonmarg-Gumri Road) on design, build, finance, operate and transfer (annuity) basis




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India's Gold Demand Tanks 36% In March Quarter

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Eight core infrastructure sector output dips 6.5% in March 2020

Eight core infrastructure sector output rises marginally by 0.6% in FY2020




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GST Collection Sinks To Rs 28309 Crore In March As Lockdown Hurts

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5Paisa Capital reports consolidated net loss of Rs 1.70 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales rise 69.34% to Rs 35.41 crore




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Gillette India standalone net profit declines 40.31% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 12.66% to Rs 406.57 crore




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Cyient consolidated net profit declines 74.41% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 7.68% to Rs 1073.60 crore




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Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care standalone net profit rises 1.10% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 6.19% to Rs 656.05 crore




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Western Transmission Gujarat standalone net profit declines 13.48% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales rise 27.54% to Rs 13.20 crore




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R Systems International consolidated net profit declines 23.02% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales rise 6.60% to Rs 209.26 crore




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Adani Gas consolidated net profit rises 60.28% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 0.77% to Rs 462.25 crore




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SBI Card & Payment Services standalone net profit declines 66.41% in the March 2020 quarter

For the full year, net profit rose 43.91% to Rs 1244.82 crore in the year ended March 2020 as against Rs 864.97 crore during the previous year ended March 2019




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TCI Express standalone net profit declines 12.56% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 10.50% to Rs 237.94 crore




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Shree Cement consolidated net profit rises 57.60% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 2.13% to Rs 3415.14 crore




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Reliance Power reports standalone net loss of Rs 264.94 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 2.72% to Rs 6.09 crore




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Reliance Home Finance reports standalone net loss of Rs 238.37 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 53.40% to Rs 276.85 crore




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Uttam Galva Steels reports consolidated net loss of Rs 536.04 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 57.18% to Rs 118.66 crore




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Reliance Power reports consolidated net loss of Rs 4206.38 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales rise 13.39% to Rs 1798.05 crore




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Swaraj Engines standalone net profit declines 4.86% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 8.53% to Rs 175.13 crore




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Reliance Capital reports consolidated net loss of Rs 2124.00 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 33.91% to Rs 3580.00 crore




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Reliance Infrastructure reports consolidated net loss of Rs 153.84 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 9.01% to Rs 3625.86 crore




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Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India reports consolidated net loss of Rs 164.57 crore in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 2.83% to Rs 616.61 crore




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Adani Transmission consolidated net profit declines 35.72% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales rise 25.20% to Rs 3186.96 crore




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ICICI Bank consolidated net profit rises 6.92% in the March 2020 quarter

Total Operating Income rise 11.47% to Rs 21740.68 crore




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Avantel standalone net profit rises 27.55% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales rise 49.79% to Rs 21.69 crore




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HDFC Asset Management Company standalone net profit declines 9.54% in the March 2020 quarter

Sales decline 2.13% to Rs 476.13 crore




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Russian volunteers search for fallen World War II soldiers

Crouching over the sun-drenched soil, Alfred Abayev picks up a charred fragment of a Soviet warplane downed in a World War II battle with advancing Nazi forces. You can see it was burning, he says, pointing at the weathered trace of a red star. Abayev and members of his search team rummage the steppe for remains of the Red Army soldiers who fell in the autumn of 1942 in fierce fighting with Nazi troops pushing toward the Caspian Sea south of Stalingrad. Stiff resistance by the Red Army stopped the Wehrmacht onslaught in the steppes of Kalmykia, and months later the enemy's forces were encircled in Stalingrad and surrendered, a major defeat for the Nazis that marked a turning point in World War II. The search for remains of fallen Red Army soldiers near Khulkhuta, in Kalmykia, a southern province that lies between the Volga River and the Caspian Sea, is part of a broad effort by myriad volunteer groups across Russia to pay tribute to fallen World War II soldiers. Russia's losses stood .




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SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav discharged from hospital

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav was discharged from a Lucknow hospital where he was admitted after he complained of stomach and urine-related issues. The Samajwadi Party founder, admitted to Medanta Hospital on Wednesday, was discharged on Saturday afternoon and he is fine now, party spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said. He had gone to the hospital for a routine check-up but the doctors admitted him for observation, Chaudhary said. Chaudhary said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav met him on Friday and enquired about his health.




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Muslim women fight patriarchal Sharia laws


Several women’s groups are now fighting the age-old gender bias perpetuated by Sharia law and finding ways to help Muslim women who have suffered due to its patriarchal dispensations. Pushpa Achanta reports on some of these, including one which proposes a codification of such law, reinterpreted.




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Searching for Charlie


"If we really love Andrews' memory," said Gandhi when his close friend passed away, then "we may not have hate in us for Englishmen, of whom Andrews was among the best and noblest." Ramachandra Guha visits his grave.




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Researching turbulent waters


Researchers around the country gathered to discuss solutions to the key water-related problems India faces. From conflicts between states, to water-saving agricultural practices, to receding glaciers, a number of issues were raised, and their economic and social implications weighed. Surekha Sule reports.




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Development disconnected from research


The practical management of water systems has become detached from the knowledge gained through research, which has made great progress in the last two or three decades. Because critical elements of research have been externalised, the induction of new inter-disciplinary learning has been greatly limited, writes Jayanta Bandyopadhyay.




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March Jobs Report Doesn't Tell the Full Story; Here's Why

U.S. employers shed 701,000 jobs in March, in the worst month for job losses since the 2007-2009 recession. But these losses still don't show the pandemic's full impact on the labor market. WSJ's Eric Morath explains. Photo: JOHN MINCHILLO/ASSOCIATED PRESS




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Questions in search of answers


The success of Operation Sarp Vinash must be understood from independent scrutiny of the Army's claims, as well as analysis of new military strategy, says Firdaus Ahmed.




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In search of the missing link


Indifference, impatience, aggression and denial have been among the common responses to rape as a multi-layered problem. In the concluding part of her article, Ammu Joseph draws attention to all that fosters a culture of violence against women in our society and why it is unamenable to hasty remedies.




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Reorienting research priorities


Having failed to meet the challenges of the post-green revolution era, agricultural research has reached a dead end, says Devinder Sharma.




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In search of Binodini and her peers


The leading ladies of Bengali theatre in the late 19th and 20th centuries presented an intriguing portrait of women caught between two worlds, liberated in a way, yet shackled in others. A recent performance as tribute to these artists leads Shoma Chatterji to reminisce their lives and times.




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Unleashing Political Renaissance By Rejecting Patriarchy


Boregaon is a small village in Solapur district of Maharashtra where men have shunned the patriarchal mindset to support women’s political empowerment and gender equality, writes Suchismita Pai.




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In search of the elusive female traveller


Most Indian languages do not have a specific word for the female traveller. The traveller is by definition male, a fact that provokes Namrata R Ganneri to delve deeper into the gendered nuances of travel and its implications for women.




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World Bank's CAS: The forward march of failure


The newly announced country assistance strategy for India is the continuation of what the World Bank has been pushing in this country and elsewhere in the last 15 years or so years, with nothing to show for it, writes Shripad Dharmadhikary.




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In search of the blooms


A better tomorrow must be for us all, not just for the middle and upper classes. This has little to do with morality, altruism or idealism, but much more to do with realism says Dilip D'Souza.