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Deepika Padukone took to Instagram to wish her co-star Prabhas on her 41st birthday. The duo will share screen space in director Nag Ashwin’s sci-fi film. Deepika Padukone wishes Prabhas on her 41st birthday. Deepika Padukone is the latest celebrity to wish Baahubali star Prabhas on her 41st birthday. He …

Political parties are joining the free vaccine train, but are Indians interested in getting vaccinated against Covid-19? A poll by LocalCircles finds that up to 61% of respondents among the 25,000 respondents are skeptical. Sixty-one percent of the 8,312 respondents said they are “skeptical about the Covid-19 vaccine and will …

NEW DELHI: An international team of researchers has found a “lost” river that flowed through the central Thar desert, near Bikaner, 1.72,000 years ago. The river likely served as a lifeline for Stone Age populations, helping them thrive in what is now an arid region, while also serving as an …

Researchers have found evidence of a “lost” river that passed through the central Thar desert, near Bikaner, 172,000 years ago, and may have been a lifeline for human populations that allowed them to inhabit the region. The findings, published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, represent the oldest phase of …

The machine costs less than Rs 5,000 and the test kits would each cost around Rs 500, the IIT-Kharagpur researchers said. A new coronavirus diagnostic method, using a low-cost portable unit developed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, has been approved by the Indian Council for …

The findings, published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, represent the oldest phase of river activity directly dated at Nal Quarry in the central Thar Desert. Study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany, Anna University in Tamil Nadu, and IISER Kolkata …

Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s army chief ordered an investigation into allegations that paramilitary forces forcibly removed a provincial police chief from his home and pressured him to arrest the son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. The investigation comes as the provincial police chief, Mushtaq Mehar, and more than 50 …

NEW DELHI: ‘COVIRAP’, the diagnostic machine developed by the Kharagpur researchers of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), has been successfully validated for its effectiveness in detecting Covid-19 by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) ), the institute said Wednesday. After rigorous testing with patient samples by an authorized …

Donald Trump has frustrated and enraged China during a tumultuous first term, but Beijing may welcome his re-election as he scans the horizon for the decline of its rival superpower. Relations are as cold as at any time since formal ties were established four decades ago, and China has warned …

Written by Kaunain Sheriff M | New Delhi | Updated: October 21, 2020 7:46:35 am On Monday, Prime Minister Modi had said that the country was working to put a well-established vaccine delivery system in place and that this digitized network, along with digital health identification, would be used to …