Coal can inject some extra life into chargeable batteries for electric vehicles without burning, a new study has found. An advanced model of a hybridized battery management system using coal-based pouch cell supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries in an experiment by a team of scientists helped increase the maximum speed of e-rickshaws to 45 km per hour with an additional power …
Among the endless conspiracy theories about Shakespeare, my favourite — and most ludicrous — is that the English poet and playwright was actually a Muslim man called Sheikh Peer! So, I was delighted to encounter a version of Sheikh Peer in the comic Shekkhopir-Deshe Durbhikkha in Famine Tales: A Graphic Anthology. 188pp, ₹2799; Jadavpur University Press The second version is …
New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday again took a digital tablet wrapped in a traditional 'bahi-khata' style pouch as she headed for Parliament to present Union Budget 2023-24 in a paperless format just like the previous two years. Sitharaman, India's first full-time woman Finance Minister, had in July 2019 ditched the colonial legacy of a Budget briefcase for …
