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Delhi’s Mungeshpur area experienced a sweltering 52.3 degrees celsius on Wednesday, the highest temperature ever seen in the city, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). Officials believe that this degree of extreme temperature difference between Mungeshpur’s 52 degrees and the surrounding  locality’s 49 degrees is very unlikely and attribute it to a possible fault in the local temperature sensing system. Union Minister for Earth Sciences Kiren Rijiju took to X  later on Wednesday to say “It is not official yet. Temperature of 52.3°C in Delhi is very unlikely. Our senior officials in IMD have been asked to verify the news…

On this day in history 25 years ago, on 29 May 1999, space shuttle Discovery set the record to become the first ever to dock with the International Space Station. During this STS-96 mission, Discovery delivered several crucial components to the International Space Station (ISS) using the Integrated Cargo Carrier. These components included the Russian cargo crane, STRELA; the SPACEHAB Oceaneering Space System Box; and the American crane, ORU Transfer Device. STS-96 was the second ISS mission in the Space Shuttle Program, following STS-88, which delivered the first American module, Unity, in December 1998. Overall, 34 shuttle missions were conducted to…

Filmmaker Payal Kapadia made history on Saturday as she became the first Indian to reel in the prestigious Grand Prix at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, second only to the Palme d’Or, which was bagged by American director Sean Baker for Anora. Kapadia’s film “All We Imagine As Light” is a drama that centres three Malayali nurses, Prabha (Kani Kusruti), Anu (Divya Prabha) and Parvathy (Chhaya Kadam) as they navigate love, life and sisterhood in the megapolis that is Mumbai, which seems to have a surplus of all three. In Kapadiya’s own words, this film, more than anything, is about friendship.…