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HP CM for identifying more land for rock salt production
Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Monday directed officials to identify additional land for rock salt mining in Drang area of Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. The CM gave the directions on the request of Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Hindustan Salts limited SP Bansal who met him in Mandi on Monday. Bansal has urged for providing …
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January 22, 2018 -
The sound of metal
It was born in an era of protests. As young people took to the streets across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, challenging the norms set for generations, a little-known genre of music was getting ready to make waves, emphatically. The sound of music that the likes of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and …
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June 7, 2017 -
Did Earth form from a donut-shaped planetary object?
Early in its history, our home planet was likely a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporised rock, now called a "synestia", according to a new study. In a paper published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, the researchers proposed that a synestia formed as planet-sized objects smashed into each other. For the study, …
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May 23, 2017