The Director -General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Grossi, on August 27, 2024, visited the nuclear power plant in Kursk, western Russia, in the theatre of the Russia-Ukraine war. He described the situation in the plant as Read More …
Twenty members of the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students who were kidnapped on their way to their annual convention in Enugu, southeast Nigeria, have regained their freedom. They were freed on 23 August, 2024, a week after their Read More …
Nigeria approved the sale and public use of the TELA variety of genetically modified maize in 2024. The approval on behalf of the Federal Government was by the National Committee on Naming, Registration and Release of Crop Varieties, Livestock Breeds/Fisheries, Read More …
The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security, widely considered as a first global compendium on the subject, was published on 20 June, 2023. It has 41 chapters, written by 63 experts from six continents on their perspectives in various aspects of Read More …
The world of ocean exploration will forever remember 18 June, 2023, when Titan submersible with five persons on their way to see the wreckage of Titanic, died. The search and rescue efforts for the missing Titan craft on 22 June, Read More …
Three of the16 Indian sailors, released by Nigerian authorities after a nine-month detention on accusation of oil theft, have arrived home at Kochi (also called Cochin) Airport in Kerala where they were welcomed with garlands by their families and Indian Read More …
Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber for his deadly bombing campaign against scientists, died in his prison cell on 10 June, 2023. He was aged 81 years. Ted Kaczynski was sentenced to life imprisonment, without an option of parole, after Read More …
Kathleen Folbigg, 55, an Australian mother of four, jailed for 40 years for killing all her children, has been pardoned and freed based on new scientific evidence. Her sentence was earlier reduced to 30 years, of which 25 years was Read More …
The United States says it has 1,419 nuclear warheads. Out of this, 662 are deployed intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and those that can be launched by heavy bombers. The US Department of State gave the figures on 16 Read More …
Scientists in the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, an international research team in US, has published a Pangenome or a draft of combined, complete gene map of 47 diverse persons. The 47 persons include individuals from Africa, Asia, America and Europe. Read More …
