Tag: Found

Dhenkanal: The decomposed body of a female elephant was found from Markata Ambakhola forest at Kamakhyanagar under the Eastern forest range. According to forest officials, the elephant had died in the forest about 15 days ago. “Investigation is on to find out the circumstances under which the elephant died. The exact reason behind the death […]

Cuttack: The half-burnt body of a youth was found inside an under construction building in CDA sector-10 area here on Tuesday morning. The deceased has been identified as Smruti Ranjan Sarangi of Ainipada village of Pattamundai area in Kendrapara district. According to sources, Behera was working as an LIC agent and was residing in a […]

Washington: In their search for unknown dwarf planets and Planet X and for distant Solar System objects, a team of scientists have discovered a new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto with an orbit. The newly found object, called 2015 TG387, is likely on the small end of being a dwarf planet since it has […]

Toronto: Using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, an international team of scientists has discovered a new exoplanet twice the size of Earth and about 145 light years away. The exoplanet ‘Wolf 503b’ is in the Virgo constellation and it orbits its star every six days and is thus very close to it, about 10 […]

New York: Researchers are a step closer to developing a broadly effective antibody treatment against the three major Ebola viruses that cause the lethal disease in humans. The study found that the isolation of two potent monoclonal antibodies from human survivors of Ebola virus disease that — in cell culture studies — efficiently neutralised the […]

Kendrapara: There has been a drop in the number of birds visiting the wetlands of Bhitarkanika national park in Kendrapara district though some of the rare species have been spotted this time. Rare bird species of central Asian origin have been spotted in the wetland spots of the park. Though there has been discernible drop […]