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22 IIT Guwahati Researchers Are On Stanford University’s List of World’s Best Scientists New Delhi: At least 14 scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Hindu University of Banaras have been among the top two percent of scientists in a global list compiled by the prestigious Stanford University. …

With 1,939 new infections, the total number of cases in Tamil Nadu exceeded 7.54 lakh (archive) Chennai: After nearly five months, Tamil Nadu’s daily coronavirus count fell below 2,000 on Friday, helping active cases drop below 18,000. The state has reported the fourth highest number of cases in the country. …

Written by Amitabh Sinha | Pune | Updated: November 14, 2020 6:48:54 am A sign outside a polling station in North Carolina in October. Reuters The annual climate change conference was in session in Marrakech, Morocco, when the results of the 2016 US presidential election came in. Donald Trump’s victory, …

Over the past five nights of Diwali, the bursting of firecrackers has sent air quality, which is toxic at this time of year anyway, to emergency levels, peaking at nearly every monitor in the city. According to data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the air in Delhi remains …

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday identified high levels of air pollution as “one of the most important factors” for the rise in Covid-19 infections, linking the two crises the capital is going through, but said that the third wave of coronavirus disease. The outbreak in the city is likely …

US President-elect Joe Biden with Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris. | Photo credit: Twitter Key points As is the norm, once the presidential elections are concluded and the results are declared, the winning candidate begins to prepare the transition teams for the next government. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn …

After the election of Donald Trump in late 2016, the then-president-elect received an unprecedented phone call from Taiwan’s leader, Tsai Ing-Wen, which broke decades of diplomatic protocol and sparked angry protests from China. Now, critics of Beijing are seeking a similar show of support from President-elect Joe Biden, who promised …

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the announcement in a video message at an event where Prime Minister Modi inaugurated two future-ready Ayurveda institutions in Jaipur and Jamnagar. The World Health Organization announced Friday that it will establish a Global Center for Traditional Medicine in India, and Prime Minister …

On the occasion of Ayurveda Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two Ayurveda institutes: the Institute for Teaching and Research in Ayurveda (ITRA), Jamnagar, and the National Institute of Ayurveda (NIA), Jaipur, via video conference on Friday. “Everything is being integrated in the current era and this approach has made …

Much has been said about the role caste plays, or not, in Bihar’s electoral politics. Among those who claim that Bihar politics is determined entirely by caste and those who argue that the alignments of caste and party have now become fluid and thus have made caste irrelevant to other …