The Daily Populous

On July 14, Indian Railways rolled out its first train with rooftop solar panels that power the lights, fans, and information display systems inside passenger coaches.

The railways estimate that a train with six solar-powered coaches could save around 21,000 litres of diesel every year, worth around Rs12 lakh.

In 2014, Indian Railways consumed 2.6 billion litres of diesel, accounting for around 70% to the network’s total fuel bill of Rs28,592 crore. »

There are few people in Congress who criticize big Wall Street banks more than Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) does.

Dimon did acknowledge that Warren and other critics have some “legitimate” concerns, and said that he’d be happy to meet with her.

I was in Washington in those months after the [financial] crisis, but I wasn’t one of the guys. »

This isn’t a deliberate plot on the part of Earth’s 1.5 billion cows: it’s the inevitable by-product of ruminant biology.

The end result of such microbial metabolism is methane, of which the average cow produces some 200 to 500 liters per day.

While seaweed farming is a rapidly growing global industry, it’s not yet up to such herculean demands. »

Japan's space agency has released the first images taken by a drone it operates on the International Space Station (ISS).

The so-called Internal Ball Camera drone was sent to take pictures and video of the work of the astronauts.

Image copyright JAXA Image caption A still from JAXA's video shows the drone floating on the ISS. »