Tag Archives : Gujarat

A large deposit of amber 50 million years found in India can change the Earth’s geological history and anticipate the emergence of some species on the planet. All because the insects found trapped in the material show that the subcontinent was not as isolated as previously thought. Indian, Americans and Germans researchers spent two years in [...]

In India, water tables are being depleted, threatening the water resources of the country. An article published this month in the scientific journal Nature states that in six years, from 2002 to 2008, reserves of groundwater in three regions of northern India, Haryana, Punjab, and Rajasthan, have decreased by 109 billion cubic meters, or one tenth [...]

Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh was insulted by an Indian himself when the person hurled his footwear in Gujarat, when the PM was campaigning for the Congress party. The shoe thrower was identified as a notorious engineering student who had not even managed to scrap through his fourth semester computer engineering course. However, the culprit [...]