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Coconut Husk. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Royal Society of Chemistry(RSC) Advances published a study which found that green coconut husk waste could remove 95.5% of Congo red dye from water within 80 minutes. The researchers modified the coconut-derived lignin by adding nitrogen-containing groups, creating what they called aminated lignin. Under the best conditions tested, only…
Karthik Subbaraj’s ‘Dorothy’ received a warm response at its premiere at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), with the film earning a standing ovation from the audience after its screening. The Tamil film, starring Keerthy Suresh, Sananth and Rishikanth, was screened in the Centrepiece section of the prestigious festival, marking a significant international showcase…
Opening a coconut does not require brute force. Draining it first, tapping around its natural middle seam and rotating it gradually can make the shell easier and safer to crack. Breaking a whole coconut can look like a job that needs strength, a heavy tool and a very steady hand. It actually comes down to…
iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max: Variable aperture camera, A20 Pro chip, price from Rs 1,64,900 Apple has launched the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, and the most significant change sits inside the main camera. For the first time on an iPhone, the 48MP Fusion Main camera gets a variable aperture that…
General:Some days ask for charm. This one asks for control. Spending may run ahead of income if you aren’t watching closely, and small tensions with close people can also test your balance. Since you’re ruled by Venus, peace matters to you, but the Moon today stirs emotional reactions and weakens your usual grace if you…
She Bought 25 Acres at 21. After the Bushfire, She Built This Cabin From What Survived An Australian artist who used her savings to buy a 25-acre bush block in Tasmania at the age of 21 has built an off-grid home using salvaged materials after a bushfire destroyed her original house just 18 months after…
Discussions included defense, mining, and semiconductor cooperation. NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi met his Malaysian and Ethiopian counterparts, Anwar Ibrahim and Abiy Ahmad Ali, on the sidelines of the BRICS summit on Saturday. Government sources said that meetings resulted in taking India’s relations with both countries on a new trajectory, as Malaysia and Ethiopia expressed…
Pakistan’s Babar Azam (AP photo) Babar Azam reached a significant milestone during Pakistan‘s fightback against England at Edgbaston on Friday, becoming only the fourth batter to score 2,000 runs as captain in the World Test Championship.The Pakistan batter reached the landmark in the third innings of the third Test against England, joining an exclusive list…
India’s Avinash Mukund Sable celebrates after winning the men’s 3000-meter steeplechase final event at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. (PTI File Photo) On a crisp March afternoon in 1951, inside the newly christened National Stadium in New Delhi, an infant republic dared to dream in broad daylight.Barely four years removed from the trauma…
A former NASA engineer claims he has found a way to overcome Earth’s gravity, and all ears have perked up. Exodus Propulsion Technologies, a private company co-founded by Charles Buhler, an electrostatics specialist has made the claim, according to a report by Popular Mechanics. With Buhler having worked for NASA and Kennedy Space Centre, his…
