'A recent study on child marriage in India published in the Lancet noted the overall decrease in child marriage across the country but pointed out that four States, mainly Bihar (16.7%), West Bengal ( Read More...
'Given the number of fatalities due to landslides in India, a national landslide susceptibility map can help identify the most dangerous areas and help allocate resources for mitigation strategies bet Read More...
'Seven products from Odisha, ranging from the Similipal Kai chutney made with red weaver ants to the embroidered Kapdaganda shawl, have bagged the coveted Geographical Indication (GI) tag in recogniti Read More...
'All drugmakers in India must comply with fresh guidelines to ensure good manufacturing practices, the central government said in a notification in the wake of complaints of substandard medicines expo Read More...
'A spate of attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea since November by the Houthi militia of Yemen has turned the quickest marine route linking Asia with Europe through the Suez Canal unsafe.' After Read More...
'Truck drivers announced a month-long strike on January 1 to protest against stricter punishment for hit-and-run cases under the new law, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.' As drivers of t Read More...
'For centuries, the Kashmiri language has survived only through oral traditions; by 2013, those who could write the script fell to just 5%.' This year, two technological giants, Microsoft and Googl Read More...
'Given the escalating cases of cancer, the shortage of specialists poses a significant challenge in curbing fatalities.' To address this gap, Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), the bigges Read More...
'The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has placed the Aditya-L1 spacecraft in a halo orbit around the Lagrangian point (L1).' India’s maiden solar mission Aditya-L1 reached the L1 poi Read More...
'The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has successfully utilised an indigenous road construction technology to build high-altitude bituminous road sections at the Sela tunnel and LGG-Damteng-Yangste (LD Read More...
