Triggers for Moshi bldg cave-in: Heavy rain, leachate & construction quality, say experts | Pune News

Garbage up to 70ft surrounds the caved in building in Moshi Pune: The answer everybody tracking Wednesday’s disaster in Moshi wants to know is if construction norms to build the waste-to-energy plant’s administrative building, just 30 metres away from the garbage mountains, had been adhered to.The building caved in when tons of garbage slid and…

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Scientists recreate a 2-billion-year-old enzyme and uncover how early life survived on Earth |

Scientists have long relied on chemical traces locked inside ancient rocks to piece together the story of early life. Fossils from the deepest reaches of Earth’s history are rare, often fragmentary and difficult to interpret. Isotopes, by contrast, can survive for billions of years. Among the most informative are those linked to nitrogen, an element…

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More than 330,000 gallons of rotting fish sauce in a Canadian town are finally being removed after 20 years of unbearable stench | World News

For more than two decades, residents of the small Canadian town of St. Mary’s in Newfoundland and Labrador have lived with an overwhelming smell caused by an abandoned fish sauce factory. The site, once operated by the Atlantic Seafood Sauce Company, was left with more than 330,000 gallons (1.25 million litres) of fermenting fish sauce…

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NSE Indices launches Nifty500 Ahimsa Index: From ‘ethical’ filters to screening, how the benchmark works

NSE Indices Limited announced the launch of Nifty500 Ahimsa Index based on ‘ethical’ practices NSE Indices Limited, the index services subsidiary of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), announced the launch of Nifty500 Ahimsa Index, a new thematic index that tracks companies from the Nifty 500 universe that align with the principles of “Ahimsa” or non-violence.The…

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