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The World Health Organization (WHO) has established a new network called CoViNet, aimed at enhancing global capacities for the detection, monitoring, and assessment of coronaviruses.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has established a new network called CoViNet, aimed at enhancing global capacities for the detection, monitoring, and assessment of coronaviruses.
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The Vaikom satyagraha was a remarkable movement, which sustained itself for over 600 days, amidst hostile social forces, police crackdowns, and one of the worst floods in the town's history in 1924.
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Nuclear Energy was presented as an important solution to global problems like climate change and energy security in the first-of-its-kind Nuclear Energy Summit that was hosted in Brussels, Belgium.
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Recently the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2024 were introduced by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
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Cyclone Remal made landfall on the night of 26th May on the coasts of West Bengal and Bangladesh as a severe Cyclonic Storm, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds.
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India has recorded a trade deficit, the difference between imports and exports, with nine of its top 10 trading partners, including China, Russia, Singapore, and Korea, in 2023-24, according to official data.
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Purnima Devi Barman receives Green Oscar for Greater Adjutant Stork and its wetland habitat Conservation in Assam.
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The Pre-packaged Insolvency Resolution Process (PPIRP) has resulted in the full settlement of operational creditors' claims in five cases.
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The slowdown in ethanol output has consequences, putting the 20% ethanol-blended petrol (EBP) target by 2025-26 out of range and leaving India dependent on more polluting, expensive fossil fuel imports.
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With the aim of increasing the share of public-private partnership (PPP) in ports, the Centre will look to monetise assets worth Rs 10,000 crore in 2024-25 (FY25), according to multiple sources familiar with the developments.
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The Indian-American astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni was awarded the Shaw Prize for Astronomy in 2024 for his work on the physics of astronomical transients.
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Global capability centers (GCCs) are increasingly looking to tap into revenue opportunities from the Indian market, which is already a critical talent hub. While capturing the potential of the Indian market has been in the works over the past few years, it's only of late that companies are gaining momentum.
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According to the latest report, the World Air Quality Report 2023, released by the Swiss organization IQAir, Delhi was the most polluted capital city in the world last year, and the third most polluted city in India in terms of PM (Particulate Matter) 2.5 levels.
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According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) State of the Global Climate 2023 report, records for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover and glacier retreat have been broken.
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As India ramps up its renewable energy capacity to achieve net-zero goals, the combined waste generated from its existing and newly installed solar energy infrastructure could reach up to approximately 600 kilotons by 2030.
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Recently, the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas dedicated to the nation India’s first small-scale liquefied natural gas (SSLNG) unit at GAIL (India) Ltd’s Vijaipur complex in Madhya Pradesh.
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The mango season across India is on, and along with it the usual debate about which is the best mango variety to have.
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IIT Guwahati and Columbia University scientists have developed a groundbreaking method for nanopatterning using a simple tabletop IR laser.
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The Treaty on Intellectual Property(IP), Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge was adopted at the Diplomatic Conference held under the aegis of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) at its headquarters in Geneva.
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Breastfeeding is a highly gendered work that is neglected and under-valued economically, but if recognised, infrastructure set up for the purpose can act as carbon offsets for sustainable food, health and economic systems.
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The German cockroach is the most widespread roach of all roachkind. A recent study reconstructed its origins and charted its unstoppable rise.
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Historical inscription from Vijayanagara dynasty found near Mudlapura in Koppala taluk, revealing insights into ancient water management and religious practices.
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India, which was downgraded to the status of an “electoral autocracy” in 2018, has declined even further on multiple metrics to emerge as “one of the worst autocratizers”, according to the ‘Democracy Report 2024’.
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Astronomers have discovered the oldest known "dead" galaxy in recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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Recently, the $120 million Avaana Sustainability Fund (ASF) anchored by SIDBI as an accredited entity was approved by the world’s largest climate fund Green Climate Fund (GCF).
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) published the surveillance data of the Indian Network for Fishery and Animal Antimicrobial Resistance (INFAAR) for 2019-22.
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In a world-first, engineers from Britain's University of Cambridge have shown that cement can be recycled without the same steep cost to the environment as making it from scratch.
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The Calcutta High Court has struck down the Other Backward Class status granted to 77 communities (classes), 75 of which were Muslim, in Bengal since 2010.
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A new study conducted by scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), published in NPJ Systems Biology and Applications, has shed light on the process of speciation, meaning the formation of new species, in the absence of geographic barriers.
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AI agents represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence technology, enabling real-time, multi-modal interactions with humans. The launch of these models marks a new phase in AI, the transition from chatbots to multimodal interactive AI agents.