From campus to corridors of power: How IIT Delhi alumni end up dominating civil services and PSUs

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IIT Delhi alumni endowment fund contribution report (photo: IIT Delhi; students’ representative photo: Freepik) Over 650 alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi are currently serving in public institutions, underlining the institute’s deep and sustained presence in India’s governance and administrative systems. A significant share of these alumni are part of the country’s civil […]

Researchers use sound waves to detect elusive helium gas leaks

A simple Kagome lattice. The name comes from the Japanese for “basket” and “eye”, referring to the pattern when woven with bamboo leaves. | Photo Credit: N. Mori Helium is famous for making balloons float, voices squeak, and as a critical resource for MRI machines and aerospace engineering. Helium is expensive and scarce, finding leaks […]

Why are some stars blue, some white, some red?

The stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355, which resides in our Milky Way galaxy’s inner regions are seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image. | Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. – B.R. Sravan The main reason is surface temperature. Stars behave roughly as objects that absorb all incoming radiation and radiate […]

RRB NTPC graduate level exam 2025 rescheduled: Check details here

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RRB NTPC Graduate Level exam postponed The Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) has rescheduled the RRB NTPC Graduate Level Exam 2025 for a set of candidates. As per the latest official notice, the examination that was earlier conducted on December 30, 2025, will now be held again on February 11, 2026.Candidates who appeared for the exam […]

NTA releases important notice for CUET UG application 2026: Check details here

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(Representative Image- Freepik/ Canva/ NBT) CUET UG application form 2026: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued an important public notice on its official portal. The notice is urging students to complete their Common University Entrance Test (CUET UG) 2026 applications well before the January 30 deadline. The agency warned aspirants against waiting until the […]

HPBOSE D.EL.ED results for October–November 2025 out at hpbose.org; re-evaluation open till February 12

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HPBOSE announces D.EL.ED results for October–November 2025 examinations The Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education has declared the results of the Diploma in Elementary Education examinations conducted during the October–November 2025 session. The results cover both first-year and second-year candidates, including full-year and re-appear examinations.The announcement was made through an official press note issued from […]

To make sense of cosmic rays, CERN team tracks a fragile nucleus

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The hydrogen atom is the lightest in the universe and it consists of the simplest nucleus: a single proton. But while helium is the second-lightest element, its nucleus isn’t the second simplest. That distinction belongs to the deuteron, the nucleus of the deuterium atom, which contains one proton and one neutron. (Deuterium is an isotope […]