UPPER DIR: With only 25 days remaining for holding general elections, the political parties seem to be in no hurry to kick off election campaign for garnering people’s support. There is dull and unexciting environment in the district as parties failed to start campaign and decorate towns with flags, banners, hoardings etc. Previously, the parties […]
Mysterious Fosils Found
Today I got wondered by seeing this news. Scientists searching for fossils high in the Andes mountains in Chile have unearthed the remains of a tank-like mammal related to armadillos that grazed 18 million years ago. "It looks different than almost anything out on the landscape today. There really isn’t anything that’s comparable today in […]
Push solar energy, not nuclear
It is inexhaustible and readily available almost all over the country all round the year Nuclear energy is costly to install, full of risks for operation and maintenance, and too costly to de-commission. (That is why there was no response to Thatcher’s call for bids in […]
Stars also die.
Astronomers analyzing the brightest supernova ever detected say the titanic flare has reshaped thinking about the death struggle of gigantic stars. Supernova SN2006gy, located 240 million light years away in galaxy NGC 1260, entered the record books in September last year when it dramatically brewed into an explosion 50 billion times brighter than the […]
Trinidad & Tobago Pledges To Assist Nigeria’s Gas Dev
Republic of Trinidad & Tobago has pledged to cooperate with Nigeria in its efforts to develop the nation’s gas sector. The country’s High Commissioner, Mrs. Victoria Mendex Charles gave the pledge in Abuja during a courtesy call on the Minister of State for Energy (Gas), Odusina Emmanuel Olatunde. Charles observed that Nigeria and her country […]
Carbon Offsetting
<div> </div> <p> </p> <div> </div> <p> </p> <p>“Be a hero! Save the world from global warming!” reads a Google ad on a webpage about carbon offsetting. As much as we might all like to think of it that simply, the reality is it’s just a little more complex. Carbon offsetting is basically the process of reducing the net […]