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Indian Scientists Discover Supercluster of Galaxies
Indian scientists have now claimed to have discovered an extremely large supercluster of galaxies. The supercluster of galaxies is as big as 20 million billion suns and named Saraswati by scientists from the Pune-based Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA).
Discovered by four scientists — Shishir Sankhyayan, a PhD student at the Pune-based Indian Institute of Science Education...
Landslide kills 10, traps 200 in western India
A mudslide surrounds a building in Malin village in Pune district, the western Indian state of Maharashtra on July 30, 2014.
Indian authorities say at least 10 people have died and up to 200 others trapped following a massive landslide caused by monsoon rains in western India.
The Wednesday morning mudslide damaged a remote village in Pune district of Maharashtra State, emergency officials reported.
“Ten...