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GST completes one year on June 30th By Vinod Behl | IANS Amidst teething troubles and glitches in the implementation framework, the landmark reform of Goods & Services Tax (GST), ushering in a unified tax regime, has helped in speeding up real e...
29 Jun 2018
By Chinmaya Dehury | IANS He could not become a doctor himself, but is now pulling out all stops to ensure that others fare better. This year, 18 students from Odisha made it to medical school thanks to the initiative of Ajay Bahadur Singh, who once...
29 Jun 2018
By Nishant Arora | IANS A couple of months back, when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked if users data on his platform was at risk, he unambiguously said ‘No, adding that there was no way the data of his users could be breached or “impro...
12 Jun 2018
By Rajiandai Bariam India was the global host for the recently ended “World Environment Day Conference” under the theme #Beat Plastic Pollution at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The European Union which spearheaded in the fight against plastic was ...
08 Jun 2018
By Dinesh C Sharma | India Science Wire It is a silent change which has been occurring over the past one decade. The schemes launched to reverse the process of infamous ‘brain drain’ have finally started yielding results. The number of young sci...
08 Jun 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS Ever wondered why so many books that seem of little value and are never sold or reviewed get published in the first place? That’s because most publishers worldwide follow the old 80-20 rule, in which just about 20 per cent of...
03 Jun 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS After an unprecedented boom in India’s publishing industry during the past two decades, many insiders are fearful that it has now reached its saturation point. But the boom is not over, according to David Davidar, who maintai...
31 May 2018
By Karishma Saurabh Kalita | IANS Here I was standing overlooking centuries of ancient history at one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Painted in the bright hues of orange, brown and green with the Colorado river flowing beneath it, even t...
29 May 2018
By (May 28 is Menstrual Hygiene Day) By Sugandha Rawal | IANS Some thought he was possessed, some thought he was just being a pervert when he started questioning young women about sanitary pads. But Arunachalam Muruganantham did all this in his ques...
27 May 2018
By Janita Gurung & Pradyumna J.B. Rana | IANS This year marks a quarter century of the ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) – an agreement among 196 countries to conserve the earth’s biological diversity while ens...
24 May 2018
By Bappaditya Chatterjee | IANS The proposed National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) would be of “no use” as it has “not mentioned sector-specific and time-bound emission reduction targets” for industries. It has also failed to lay enough emphas...
22 May 2018
Besides indulging in cancer causing behaviour like smoking, poor diet and low hygiene, human beings are also changing the environment in such a way that it can lead to the deadly disease in many species of wild animals, researchers have warned. “Ca...
22 May 2018
By Mohammed Shafeeq | IANS Homeless beggars, ragpickers and labourers sitting with plates on a mat are waiting under a flyover. As the clock strikes 12.30 pm, a slim man appears on the scene and starts serving hot rice and dal. Dabeerpura flyover in...
20 May 2018
(May 19 is Bond’s 84 birthday) By Saket Suman | IANS He’s lived in this humble Ivy Cottage since 1981 and has penned numerous tales to traverse a 68-year-long journey exclusively spent in writing. And even as he turns 84, he shows no signs of sl...
18 May 2018
Wind and solar energy in India are now outpacing fossil fuels as investment opportunities providing on average 12 per cent higher annual returns, 20 per cent lower annual volatility and 61 per cent higher risk-adjusted returns than coal and natural g...
18 May 2018
By Vishnu Makhijani | IANS Latika Nath was just seven when she decided she would dedicate her life to the conservation of wildlife. Along the way, she became India’s first woman wildlife biologist and spent a quarter of a century working at the gr...
17 May 2018
By Saurabh Katkurwar | IANS Barku Jairam, a 55-year-old farmer from Barwani of Madhya Pradesh, has taken up cultivating organic cotton, which he claims, has significantly brought down input costs besides ensuring a decent yield. The demand for organ...
16 May 2018
By V.S. Chandrasekar | IANS There are serious concerns about the collection of biometric data for Aadhaar cards in India and these must be allayed, a former State Department official who is considered an expert on social media and cyber-crime issues...
16 May 2018
By Nishant Arora | IANS While the Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is making its presence felt across the spectrum globally, India needs to prioritise AI-based predictive analysis to improve outcomes in three core areas — agriculture, he...
16 May 2018
By Vivian Fernandes | IANS The regulator for genetically modified (GM) crops in its meeting on March 21 declined to reinforce its decision in May 2017 recommending approval for commercial cultivation of the GM mustard hybrid developed by a team of D...
15 May 2018
By Milinda Ghosh Roy | IANS With no cutting-edge medical equipment, air-conditioning or critical care unit in place, the under-construction building in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district hardly matches the popular notion of a modern medical ...
13 May 2018
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) Only five to 11 individual Indus Dolphins, one of the world’s rarest mammals, survive in India, with their habitat confined to 130 km stretch of Beas river in Punjab, reveals the first-ever organised census. Low waterf...
11 May 2018
Are you someone that likes living life on the edge, from salary to salary, buying something as and when you set eyes on it, without worrying about your savings, and a “dekha jayega” attitude? That may seem cool — but it’s also a short cut...
11 May 2018
By Abderrahim Ouarghidi | EMN The Moroccan proverb “New things have a charm and old ones should be preserved” has wide applicability in current Moroccan agricultural practices and attitudes toward conventional and local crop varieties. The revea...
08 May 2018
By Rituraj Baruah | IANS Though earthquakes have wreaked havoc in many parts of the country, Indian real estate and infrastructure sector still has lots more to learn — and implement — to ensure the safety of life and property. Although ...
08 May 2018
