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The Eta Aquariid meteor shower, which has been active since April 15, will peak on May 5 and 6, 2024.
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The Eta Aquariid meteor shower, which has been active since April 15, will peak on May 5 and 6, 2024.
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A seven-member delegation from India held a Joint Trade Committee (JTC) meeting with their Nigerian counterparts in Abuja to review recent developments in bilateral trade and investment ties.
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In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, an international team of researchers has discovered the “nitroplast” — the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell.
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ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (ICAR-CMFRI) achieves captive breeding of high-value marine fish golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus).
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The Tamil Nadu government issued an advisory banning the use of liquid nitrogen in food and warned of stringent action against violators.
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Daryapur-based arachnologist has identified the green lynx spider, which was never discovered earlier.
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One of Norway’s Arctic islands recorded its first case of a walrus dying from bird flu. The walrus was found among six others on Hopen Island in the Svalbard archipelago last year.
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An unsolved problem in computer science simply called the P (Polynomial time) versus NP (Nondeterministic Polynomial time) problem, could hold the key to many modern-day problems.
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India and New Zealand will likely set up working groups in sectors such as agriculture, food processing, storage & transportation, forestry, digital trade and pharmaceuticals to facilitate ongoing collaboration on key trade and economic issues.
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The Central Government has rolled out an intense training program for the police and prison department personnel throughout the country on the new criminal laws.
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India is expected to host a delegation of Kenyan officials later this month to explore the possibility of sourcing cheetahs from the East African country for the next phase of Project Cheetah.
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The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, through the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), will host the 46th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM 46) and the 26th Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP 26) from May 20 to 30, 2024, in Kochi, Kerala.
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According to a study by the Kerala State Forest Protective Staff Organisation removing exotic plants from forest areas will help ensure food for wild elephants at Chinnakkanal in Munnar.
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The Critical Minerals Summit was concluded in New Delhi on a note of strategic collaboration and policy insights, marking significant strides towards India's critical minerals objectives.
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Capping consumption of urea and DAP to correct worsening plant nutrient imbalance is likely on the new government's priority list after the Lok Sabha polls.
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The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-Guwahati) claimed that its researchers achieved a significant breakthrough in speech technology by developing a novel method to generate human speech signals directly from vocal cord vibration signals.
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According to a newly released Plastic Overshoot Day (POD) Report, India will release 31,483 tonnes of chemical additives from microplastics and will be the second leading polluter of waterways through this method after China (59,208 tonnes) in 2024.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have written to Apple CEO Tim Cook demanding answers on the sourcing of minerals used to manufacture the company’s products.
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Chhattisgarh-based environment and forest activist Alok Shukla has been honoured with the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.
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The discovery of the world’s deepest blue hole in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay off the southeast coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, has captivated the attention of geologists, marine biologists, and adventurers alike.
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The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted the flight test of the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island, situated off the coast of Odisha.
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According to a new study by Verizon Business, India is one of the key countries affected by phishing attacks, where employees often click on malicious links or attachments that appear to be from legitimate sources, often leading to severe financial losses.
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According to the international team of researchers that conducted the study about quarks, the finding rejects “conventional particle-physics models in which the consolidation of quarks is independent of the particle environment”.
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For the past six months, India’s foreign policy has been grappling with the Maldives challenge. The elections and subsequent political trajectory in the Maldives are not only important for the island state but also matter for India.
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Conserving these Old World primates could help save Africa’s tropical forests.
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An intensive modelling study has found methane emissions from fossil fuels declined between 1990 and the 2000s and have been stable since, whereas microbes have been producing more methane of late.
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Given political turmoil in different countries across the globe, Indian industries wanting to spread their wings beyond Indian shores have been seeking political risk insurance (PRI).
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The Supreme Court restored the compensation of Rs 5 lakhs awarded by the district consumer forum in a medical negligence case by underlining that the state and central consumer courts incorrectly applied the ‘eggshell skull’ legal principle.
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The reform of labour institutions is always in the air as objective (variables) and subjective (orientation of agencies involved) factors keep changing.
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The year 2024 commemorates 50 years since the launch of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1974, a program focused on equity in childhood vaccine access.