Hyderabad: Watch out, the slippery road season is here. Around 17 people die every week during monsoon due to slippery roads, according to data with the Rachakonda traffic wing. In the corresponding period June last year, there were 81 deaths while instances of road accidents also saw an increase. According to the traffic wing’s ‘Reason wise comparison of road accidents’ …
Emergency regulations draw criticism for allowing authorities to retrace movements of people infected by COVID-19. Israel‘s government has begun deploying cellphone-monitoring technology against the coronavirus pandemic, drawing criticism from the opposition and a rights group who called it a “dangerous precedent”. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s cabinet approved the emergency regulations – which came into effect on Tuesday – that will …
It could be weeks before the Indian Space Research Organisation reveals what precisely prevented lander Vikram from making a smooth touchdown on the moon, but the most recent failure of a similar sort is Beresheet, a private moon mission by Israeli non-profit organisation SpaceIL. This is a technological limitation that, even in principle, cannot be overcome,” according to Jatan Mehta, …
