Month: May 2021

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping India has left many children orphaned and vulnerable. However, before handing over an orphan child to any agency, family or person, however well intended the move [Read More]

A solar-powered rover, named Zhurong, will now survey the landing site before departing from its platform to conduct inspections. Named after a mythical Chinese god of fire, Zhuronghas six scientific instruments including a high-resolution opography [Read More]

Iron Dome is a multi-mission system capable of intercepting rockets, artillery, mortars and Precision Guided Munitions like very short range air defence (V-SHORAD) systems as well as aircraft, helicopters and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) over [Read More]

A sudden increase in demand has been observed in some states for Amphotericin B which is being actively prescribed by the physicians to patients suffering from Mucormycosis, a post COVID complication. States have been requested [Read More]

The new fear after the treatment of COVID-19, especially in an ICU setting, is contracting a severe disease known as mucormycosis. This is a serious, but rare, fungal infection caused by a group of fungi [Read More]

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has ambitious plans to promote water transport, tourism and protection of environment in the mountainous northeastern region, an official said on Thursday. NFR General Manager Anshul Gupta said the NFR [Read More]

The second complication arises from the fact that apart from the main democracy movement in the heartland there are several movements of ethnic and religious minorities, some in border areas, which have been fighting for [Read More]

The substance of the letters, which includes a dire prognosis of “civil war” and questions the very survival of France if the current regime’s attitude towards Islamism doesn’t change, is quite controversial. But the fact [Read More]

The violence is said to be the worst in years. With governance in limbo in Israel, the Middle East, explosive even in normal times, is in ferment yet again. The country’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, [Read More]

Since the coup, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) has received reports of enforced disappearances from the family members of victims. There is concern that there will be a plethora [Read More]