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The Quad grouping took a groundbreaking cancer initiative global. Called the Quad Cancer Moonshot Initiative, the countries — India, United States, Australia and Japan — launched the programme that will focus on expanding cervical cancer screening; increasing vaccinations against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a common sexually transmitted infection that is the primary cause of cervical cancer; and treating patients.
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The rings of Saturn are perhaps the most stunning features of the Solar System. Earth may once have boasted something similar, a study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters found. The existence of such a ring, forming around 466 million years ago and persisting for a few tens of millions of years, could explain several puzzles in our planet’s past, Andrew Tomkins, a professor of planetary science at Monash University in Australia, and the study’s lead author, wrote in The Conversation.
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A Coast Guard exercise and an initiative to fight cancer will be among the new projects announced at the Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) when U.S. President Joe Biden hosts Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the leaders of Australia and Japan.
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India has announced a new initiative to award fifty Quad scholarships, worth $500,000, to students from the Indo-Pacific. These scholarships will enable students to pursue a four-year undergraduate engineering programme at a Government of India-funded technical institution, said the Wilmington Declaration issued after the fourth in-person Quad Summit.
