As per geoscientists, Greenland sits over an area of abnormally hot mantle material that drives a widespread melting beneath the ice sheet and rapid ice flow over a distance of several hundred km.
The researchers had to go far back into the Earth's history to explain the reason for the melting base of the world's second largest ice sheet.
India's foreign exchange reserves swelled to a record high of $360 billion for the week ended April 1. The swell is because of foreign funds poured into Indian financial markets.
In the wake of modest current account gap and healthy appetite for India, capital flows are likely to remain strong and this would prompt RBI to continue intervening to absorb dollars and build reserves.
India's balance of payments swung to a surplus in October-December, marking a modest upturn in its financial position.
Airtel Buys Aircel's 4G Spectrum
Bharti Airtel will pay Rs. 3,500 crore to acquire rights to use 4G spectrum of Aircel in eight telecom circles.
Bharti Airtel and its subsidiary Bharti Hexacom Ltd entered into a definitive agreement with Aircel Ltd and its subsidiaries Dishnet Wireless Ltd and Aircel Cellular Ltd to acquire rights to use 20 megahertz (MHz)in 2300 band 4G TD spectrum in the eight circles.
These circles are Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Assam, the North-East, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.
A team of scientists has detected a mysterious new state of matter that causes electrons -- thought to be nature's indivisible building blocks -- to break into pieces.
The state, known as a quantum spin liquid, was found in a two-dimensional material with a structure similar to graphene.
It was first predicted 40 years ago, quantum spin liquids were thought to be hiding in certain magnetic materials, but had not been conclusively sighted in nature.
A 400-year old ban that prohibited women from entering the sanctum sanctorum of Shani Shingnapur temple was lifted and women entered the inner sanctum and offered prayers.
The lifting of the ban has been hailed as a big victory for women.
Buoyed by their success, later this month an agitation will be launched along with 500 women at Kolhapur's Mahalaxmi temple, and thereafter Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik.
Mamata Banerjee Files Nomination
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee filed her nomination papers for the state Assembly Elections and declared assets worth a little over Rs. 30 lakh.
Banerjee, will contest the Assembly polls from Bhowanipore in south Kolkata.
Congress nominee Deepa Dasmunsi and Chandra Kumar Bose of the Bharatiya Janata Party also filed their nomination papers.
Polling in Bhowanipore will take place on 30th April in the 5th phase.
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