On 24th April 2022, while addressing the Indian diaspora in Singapore, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla described the key role of the diaspora as a “powerful force” in India’s Look East policy. Asserting that the [Read More]
India is gripped in the throes of a long spell of heatwaves and there is compelling evidence that a significant portion of it is due to human-induced climate change, said scientists who were part of [Read More]
Carbon emissions from the use of fossil fuels have been identified as one of the primary drivers of global warming today. Over the last few decades, pollution levels have increased at an alarming rate. This [Read More]
The earliest known cases of hepatitis infection of unknown origin were reported in the U.S. in October 2021, the country’s Centres for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) informed. A total of nine children, between ages [Read More]
A shift to green ammonia would help cut India’s fertilizer subsidy burden and boost energy self-reliance by reducing dependence on imports of expensive liquified natural gas (LNG) for fertilizer manufacturing, says a report by the [Read More]
New and emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 virus continue to pose a threat to the health of populations across the globe. Counting the unique and observable changes in the sequences available until January 2022 shows more [Read More]
It’s not only humans who appear eccentric; stars can have their own ideas of eccentricities, too. One such case is that of blue stragglers, a particular type of star seen in clusters and also, sometimes, [Read More]
Russian energy company Gazprom has stopped gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland citing their failure to pay in roubles. In a statement on April 27, it announced that it has “completely suspended gas supplies” to [Read More]
Scientists Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein discovered C/2014 UN271 or Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet in archival pictures from the Dark Energy Survey at an astronomical observatory in Chile. It was discovered by coincidence in November 2010 and [Read More]
In an address delivered at the Delhi School of Economics last week, N.K. Singh, the chairperson of the 15th Finance Commission, warned about how the race to provide freebies to voters could be a “quick [Read More]
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