Geo-microbiologist Yohey Suzuki says clay minerals can be considered 'magic material on Earth' one can always find microbes living in them.

Despite its proximity to the epicentre of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the company staff worked hard to ensure the success of the mission, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

One of the major lunar events India is going to witness this week is a Pink Super Moon. This appearance of the moon is considered as the brightest and the biggest.

In Delhi, the comparison made from the second week of March (before lockdown) to first week of April (April 6), reduction in PM2.5 was found to be by 62 per cent, PM10 by 57 per cent and NOx by 50 per cent,  the latest SAFAR data accessed by PTI showed.

According to NASA, this will be the largest of full Moons this year. Also termed as “Pink Moon”, this Supermoon marks the first full moon of the Spring season.

Emission of the green house at the current levels will cause catastrophe in most parts of the world with some ecosystems expected to collapse by 2030.

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy along with two Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner reached the International Space Station (ISS) for a six-month-long mission named Expedition 63.

Termed "a successful failure", the spacecraft which had three astronauts- James Lovell Jr, Fred Haise Jr, and John Swigert Jr- on board managed to return to the Earth despite facing an explosion like situation after a blast in its oxygen tank.

The planet, being called Kepler-1649c, was discovered by the team when they were looking through the data of previous observations from the Kepler telescope, which had been retired by NASA in 2018.

For any administration, it is extremely important to remain prepared for various possible eventualities and the likelihood of any country requiring to witness two natural disasters together, just cannot be ruled out.

A US-Russian space crew landed safely Friday in the steppes of Kazakhstan, greeted with extra precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The less distance from Kepler 1649 c's host red-dwarf star, scientists believe, puts the exoplanet in the habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the world's surface.

"The discovery of this exceptional system has been made possible thanks to the acquisition of a great number of measurements, as well as a dramatic improvement of the instrument and of our signal processing techniques," said Francois Bouchy, a professor at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in Switzerland.

Nitrogen dioxide pollution in the northeastern United States is down 30 per cent. Rome air pollution levels from

As part of its large-scale broadband internet connectivity project Starlink, the company has positioned many large satellites in the lower orbits of the Earth.

China National Space Administration (CNSA) named the Mars mission as "Tianwen," which means Heavenly Questions or Questions to Heaven, a poem written by China's well known poet Qu Yuan (340-278 BC).

The proposals have been sought by the Directorate of Human Space Programme of the Bangalore-headquartered ISRO for a total of 18 tentative technology development areas.

According to NASA, they have identified and tracked over 90 percent of the asteroids near the Earth (NEAs) with a minimum width of 1 km, which is big enough to be a threat to the humans if they line up with the Earth.

It refers to the difficulty of the direction that takes the small hole around its partner-a difficulty that the research team has now integrated into a highly sophisticated model.

NASA's Near-Earth Object Studies Center has classified the asteroid 1998 OR2 as the 'potentially hazardous object' as it flies at regular intervals past Surface's earth. In particular, about 125 other objects were found to be potentially hazardous.

Rupani, a high school junior from Northport, Alabama, earned the honour of naming the helicopter after she submitted her essay into NASA's "Name the Rover" contest.

A dinosaur species, one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs known to man, had a giant fin tail as well as a centre of gravity which was highly suitable for swimming.

In the Gaganyaan mission, the first of three flights was scheduled within a year, initial two flights to be unmanned but with humanoids onboard.

Fusarium wilt with tropical race 4 (TR4) strain is a soil-borne fungal disease that affects mainly cavendish varieties of banana.

During a virtual interaction, she compared the Indian students' experience to her being in space in a spacecraft “where you don't get to go, see your family and friends and give them a real hug.”

The discovery was made by a group of astronomers led by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (UH IfA). The new plant was discovered after studying six years of data.

The spacecraft entered the return orbit at 12:21 pm after which its return capsule separated with its service capsule at 1:33 pm.

AN NRI WANTS TO SELL HIS PROPERTY IN INDIA. UNDER I. TAX PROVISIONS THE BUYER IS SUPPOSED TO DEDUCT TDS @ 20% . WHETHER A LOWER RATE IS THERE UNDER THE data BETWEEN UAE AND INDIA?

IN MY PREVIOUS QUERY THE WORD SHOULD BE DTAA AND NOT DATA.. THANKS.

Sir, We have 300 sq yards of land in Visakhapatnam. We would like to give it to development to a builder for the construction of apartment. What are the precautions to be taken by us so that the entire process is completed without any issues??

My father had bought land in Pune in 1987 and 7-12 of the land has Ku.Ka. 84 Kas Patra remark on it. In 2017, we sold same land to other person. Now he is asking for our Agriculturist Certificate to transfer 7-12 on his name but we do not have any agriculturist certificate as nobody from our has any farmland. Can i get Agriculturist Certificate if my wife has agriculture land on her name. Please advice. Thank you.

Hello Lawyers... My mother did filed a civil suit for claim of ancestral property against my maternal grandfather in the year 2014 (SUIT FOR DECLARATION) only. But the Lawyer was not able to prove the case and the suit was dismissed for the reason that " Ancestral nature of the property is not proved". After that she didn't filed any revision or appeal. It's been 4 years. My Question is " Can My sister and I file the fresh suit again and start the fresh case from beginning , Will the previous case hurt this case? 2.If yes, then when should we file the case ( Very soon or we can demand our share at any time in our life?). What should we do? pl guide the right approach....

Dear all, I am from Pondicherry, my dad like to bought a land form the seller in 2004 so he was paid some amount as a advance and put a agreement for register the particular land within certain period also seller agree & allow to pay the remaining amount of cash at the time of registration . unfortunately seller met with an accident before the registration date. seller have one minor son and wife. Seller have brother and sisters. while his dead that land his combined with his family members land. At that time situation is if anyone want to sell their land all the family members has to sign for registration. After his dead their family members divided their lands and register their parts individually. But our seller land is comes under his mother name. she refuse to sell that particular land to us even we put agreement. so my dad decided to file a case againsed his family. we file the case after the agreement date closed but we pay sum amount of money to the seller wife during his dead and also we mentioned that in agreement paper by manual writing and got signature from his wife in the same agreement paper. if we counting date from 2nd payment we file the case before one year. Now they ask current market rate for the land otherwise they won't do register. From 2004 to till date we lived in that particular land because we clearly mentioned on the agreement from the date of making the agreement to registration we lived in the particular land without paying any rent. My queastions: 1. if the agreement valid after the duration over 2. we lived their for past 15 years is any legal way to ask ownership 3. we got positive judgment from pondicherry court for ex-party. So they re appeal in chennai court now chennai court returened the file to pondicherry for judgement. 4. Any previous cases are their like our case. Note: I am note sure if i express everything understandable. i hope i will explain our full case through phone for better understanding. please provide your number so i will explain clearly about my case. Please help me to get positive judgment from court. my contact number - 9894448328

I belong to general caste. Can I buy house from 2nd owner who in turn bought land after completion of 10 years from Schedule caste person given under special scheme.

Respected Sir Need your help has I'm facing a financial crisis beacuse of a sudden decision by my company of relieving me early and hence recovering of joining bonus. I have Joined my Company on 15th June 2018. And I put down my resigination on 20th March 2020. As per my appointment letter I was suppose to serve complusary 90 Days Notice Period. which I was willing to serve. My Last working day in the system was showing has 19th June 2020 thus I was completing 2 years with the company by the time i would have left. Everything was going on smoothly during my noice period when one fine day on 16th April 2020 my company called and informed me that they will be reliving me from the company tomorrow with immediate effect by just giving 1 days notice and they actually relived me on 17th April 2020. Now my present company is demanding from me to pay back 4 Lakhs Recovery Amount of Joining Bonus which they paid when I joinined. It had a clause that if i leave company before completion of 2 years I need to pay backthe same. I want to ask you all the experts here the following things :- 1) Since I was willing to serve my 90 Days of Notice period completely and my actual last working date in the company was after completion of 2 years only, just beacuse of this sudden decision from companies end to relive me early am I liable to pay back this joining bonus amount of 4 lakhs back to the company. 2) Beacuse of this sudden decision I could join my new company only after a gap of 2 weeks in May 2020 therefore incurring a loss in salary for 2 weeks period since I was jobless for 2 weeks sitting in home .Also since my present company relieved me before 2 months from my actual last date Am i eligile to get some compensation for this 2 weeks of joblessness or thr remaing 2 months. I will be very grateful if you can guide me. Also pasting below the two extracts from my Appointment Letters for your referece :- 1) During the service period, either party to this contract shall be at liberty to terminate the same by giving to the other 3 months notice in writing or compensation (on Basic Salary basis) in lieu thereof. Provided that, such notice or compensation in lieu of shall not be payable by the Company to you in the event of any contravention or violation by you, of any of the provisions set forth in this appointment letter. It shall not be necessary for either party to assign any reason for termination of the contract. Final decision on relieving an employee in case of insufficient notice period or compensation in lieu thereof, or the decision to waive the notice period vests with the Company. Any unutilized leave, as per the Company’s leave policy, may be set-off against the notice period of 3 months, at the discretion of the Company. 2) Unless otherwise specified, any reimbursements, in the form of relocation expenses / notice pay or payment of joining bonus, will be fully recovered if your employment with the Company ceases within two years of joining. Any payment made, in the form of relocation expenses / notice pay or payment of sign-on bonus will be taxed as per income tax rules 3) Extract from Joining Bonus Letter : This is on assumption that you will work with the company for a period of a minium 2 years and in the event there is a seperation for any reason, the same will be recovered.from you in full. The other terms and condition will be same as per our appointment letter. PLEAESE GUIDE ME

Hi Team, I am from Delhi. The issue is as subjected. My brothers got the NOC signed just after the death of my father (in 1981) and, claimed to transfer property to Mother’s name. Now, when our Mother died recently (Feb’2020), I got to know that they have transferred the property in their names (2 person) already. But, they have not informed me. Please suggest if I can claim my share.

This is a clear evolution of the US administration’s position, especially weeks before the Prime Minister is scheduled to travel to the US for the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The 11-member high-level BJP delegation led by general secretary Arun Singh also urged China to take measures to increase imports from India so that the $57.86 billion trade deficit could be brought down.

Underscoring that the situation in Kashmir is bigger than party issues, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti refused to meet a delegation of her party members.

Three Indian engineers held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since May 2018 have been freed by the militant group in exchange for 11 of its top members from Afghan jails, according to an Afghan media report on Monday.

The development is likely to increase pressure on the government to adjourn the Parliament session, which the Opposition has been demanding.

The director, who co-wrote 'Black Panther,' delivers an inconsistent and disjointed but earnest and raw tale of a young African American man who grows up with violence and drug addiction all around, and becomes ensnared by it

Artists in Iraq’s southern port city of Basra have adapted the beloved characters of Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate) -- a 10-season period drama widely watched across the Arab world -- to convince their compatriots to take the pandemic seriously

'Umm Haroun' is being aired during Ramadan, when viewership soars after Muslims break the daylong fast. It’s like the Super Bowl for advertisers -- more so this year, when many people are stuck at home because of coronavirus lockdowns

Jordan’s culture ministry launched the 'My talent from my home' contest in late March, and says it has since attracted more than 67,000 participants and 18 million social network views

Straightforward but compassionate, Wolf’s film affectionately documents the heady people and ambitious ideas that fuelled Biosphere II, relating an almost too-perfect metaphor for our feeble -- and perhaps doomed -- efforts to escape our own self-destructive nature

Friederich imagine a world where an oppressive state has locked down all gatherings of people to minimise risk from a nebulous threat

Wendy Smith Chief Executive of the South Canterbury Chamber states that the new visa system must provide confidence and certainty to employers that suffer from a skills shortage in regions. Employers in the area can find it easy to bring many temporary…

Work visa rules have modified in a move designed by the government to lessen exploitation and promote migrant worker conditions.The latest rules came into force on 7 October 2019, involve workers having a minimum base salary of $79,560 to be eligible…

Background:

Counterfeiting has emerged as one of the major problems globally. Counterfeit goods, including medicines, auto parts, electrical components, toys, food and beverages and many others, can be dangerous and can potentially harm or even kill consumers. The massive infiltration of counterfeit and pirated goods drains $1 trillion from the global economy and robs over 2.5 million jobs. The impact and consequences of counterfeiting are far-reaching. Not only does it infringe on intellectual property rights, the counterfeit goods also pose direct threat to consumer health and safety. That is why a countrywide cooperation as well as public and private sector collaboration to detect and decisively combat  counterfeiting activity has become the need of the hour. A truly integrated approach, involving key stakeholders such as global, national and local law enforcement bodies, NGOs, technology solution providers and corporations, can pave the way for the development and implementation of strategies to stop counterfeiting in its tracks.

Objective:

The objective of the conference is to bring together Government, industry and other stakeholders on common platform to discuss policy level issues and share the best practices and innovative ideas to curb the menace of counterfeiting, piracy and brand theft resulting in strengthening of IPR protection ecosystem in the country.

Key Topics:

The conference will cover the following topics:-

1. Combating Online Counterfeiting: Will it be an uphill task?
2. Innovation in Brand Protection: Using New Technologies
3. Eliminating Counterfeits in the Supply Chain - An FMCG perspective
4. The Continued Threat of Spurious Drugs: A Pharmaceutical Outlook
5. Protecting your Brand! : Brand Protection by Brand Leaders!

Benefits:

The conference will provide excellent opportunity to participants to discuss, share experiences, case studies, network with industry leaders and learn about the current and innovative practices in the industry to curb the menace of counterfeiting & piracy and protecting the brand.

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