Day: 19 April 2025

On April 17, 2025, Union Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya, inaugurated a newly developed 220-bedded Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) Hospital in Namkum, Ranchi, Jharkhand. This state-of-the-art facility, constructed at a cost of approximately ₹100 crore, spans 7.9 acres and aims to provide advanced healthcare services to over 5 lakh insured persons and their dependents in the region .   The hospital is equipped with modern infrastructure and super-specialty departments, enhancing the healthcare delivery under the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Scheme in Jharkhand. Additionally, plans are underway…

Indian astronomers have recently achieved a significant breakthrough by detecting and analyzing an elusive intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) located approximately 4.3 million light-years away in the faint galaxy NGC 4395. This discovery, made using India’s largest optical telescope, the 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), provides new insights into the “middleweight” class of black holes, which have been challenging to observe due to their relatively small size and low luminosity.   The IMBH in NGC 4395 is estimated to have a mass between 100 and 1,000 times that of our Sun.…

Scientists from the Bose Institute’s Experimental High Energy Physics (HEP) group have been honored with the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. This recognition comes as part of their contributions to the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator .     The award acknowledges the collaborative efforts of researchers from the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb experiments at CERN. Their work has led to detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties, discoveries of new strongly interacting particles,…

South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), a subsidiary of Coal India, is set to become the first coal PSU in India to adopt paste fill technology in underground mining. Under a ₹7,040 crore agreement with TMC Mineral Resources, the Singhali mine project aims to commence production within 36 months, marking a major shift toward sustainable and safer coal extraction practices.   What is Paste Fill Technology?   Paste filling is a modern underground mining method that eliminates the need to acquire surface land. After coal extraction, the mined-out voids are filled…