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Dolphins in Mumbai: Maharashtra government to conduct population survey of Indian Ocean humpback…
Bombay, June 5: The Maharashtra Forest Department's Mangrove Foundation said on Saturday that it would conduct the first-ever population estimate of dolphins in the coastal waters of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region…
Despite UP Laggards, Bihar 99.9% Death Registration | India News
The Civil Registration System 2020 Annual Report did not provide data on the level of death registration, but a sample analysis of the recently released Civil Registration System report for the he year shows that the level of death…
How Trade Can Boost India’s Growth
India's exports surpassing the pre-pandemic level of $331 billion in FY 2018-19 and reaching $418 billion in FY 2021-22 is certainly an achievement. Total exports, including services exports of approximately $240 billion, amount to over…
India withdraws warning on biometric identity sharing following online uproar – TechCrunch
India has withdrawn a warning asking users not to share photocopies of their national biometric ID card following a widespread outcry from users on social media, many of whom pointed out it was the first time they…
Agricultural drone market in India will quadruple
New Delhi, May 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Government approval for the use of drones in pesticide and nutrient application coupled with growing industry participation is expected to positively influence the Indian agricultural drone…
Andhra: Clashes over district renaming after Ambedkar, MP’s house burnt down
Fierce clashes and arson broke out in the town of Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday as protesters rallied against the government's decision to rename the newly created district of Konaseema after Dr BR Ambedkar.
Protesters set fire to…
Closing Madrassas, Bringing UCC Benefits Muslims: Himanta at RSS Event
Rahul Gandhi indirectly encourages secessionist elements by calling India a Union of States and whoever closes madrassas and talks about the Uniform Civil Code is, in fact, a friend of Indian Muslims, India's chief minister said on Sunday.…
Inflation weighs on Indian businesses as millions of rural people cut spending
* Inflation at its highest for several years* Firms say soaring input costs are forcing price hikes* Price hikes begin to crush demand in the countrysideBy Krishna N. Das and Aftab AhmedNEW DELHI, May 20 (Reuters) - Soaring inflation is…
Corn from India eased the food crisis. Then he banned exports
"We already have enough food for our people, but our farmers seem to have made arrangements to feed the world," Modi said. mentioned in April. "We are ready to send the rescuers tomorrow very."World's second largest wheat producer after…
ExplainSpeaking: Why India’s government is wrong to claim inflation hits the rich harder than…
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Last week, India's Ministry of Finance said that "Inflation in India has less impact on…
Mewar tribal villagers recall Sonia Gandhi’s visit to Dhanola with the then Prime Minister in…
Sonia Gandhi spent a long time with Kura Meena's wife who was busy grinding grain in the manual stone mill (chakki). Sonia Gandhi, villagers remember, had tried her hand at spinning the slab and asked why villagers were grinding their own…
The women who disappeared in our demographic dividend
In the small talk that affluent middle-aged Indian men tend to have in their living rooms over a cup of tea, they often blame our huge population as the root cause of all our problems, social, economic and political. .…
AJK PM rejects India’s move to redraw IIOJK electoral map – Newspaper
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas has called the report of the boundary commission to redraw the electoral map of illegally occupied Indian Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) as another decision of the…
Indian OTT and Pay-TV Market Report 2022: Revenue by AVOD,
Dublin, May 05, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "India OTT and Pay-TV Predictions to 2027" report has been added to from ResearchAndMarkets.com offer. This report covers the convergent pay TV and OTT TV episodes and movies sectors. The…
Moonrise, prayer and iftar time, Eid Ka Chand Nikalne Ka Samay
Moon sighting date Eid-ul-Fitr 2022 India timings Live updates: Eid al-Fitr or Eid-ul-Fitr is a major religious holiday observed by Muslims around the world that marks the conclusion of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. The…
Why India’s Competition Commission is investigating Amazon
India's Competition Commission (ICC) on Friday raided several offices of India's largest online retailer, including Amazon-owned Cloudtail, as well as Appario Retail, which is a joint venture between the US!-->…
Population Implosion – OpEd
By all calculations, there are too many people in the world, far too many in fact (7.9 billion at the time of writing), probably double what the planet can comfortably support; over the past sixty years the population has increased…
COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the nation’s capital, is it time to worry?
New Delhi: On Wednesday, April 27, Delhi reported 1,204 new cases of COVID-19, or 41% of the total number of new cases reported in India in 24 hours. Delhi's R value which indicates the spread of infection has been recorded…
Lenders can provide loans to more than 16 additional Indian cr
TNN Mumbai: More than 16 million Indians are considered credit underserved, according to credit bureau TransUnion Cibil, highlighting the potential loan and credit card market in the country. TransUnion Cibil, in a report on Monday, said…
Market size and ways to prevent their growth, Health News, ET HealthWorld
By Mrs. Anjula MasurkarThe increase in life expectancy coupled with a heavy burden of diabetes has greatly increased vision problems among the Indian population. According to data provided by 2 international bodies, cases of near vision…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Boris Johnson set Diwali deadline for India-UK free trade deal…
By PTI
LONDON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, have set the negotiating teams of the two parties a Diwali deadline for the conclusion of a free trade agreement (FTA)…
covid: rise in Covid cases raises questions about reinfection | Bombay News
MUMBAI: With an uptick in Covid cases in Mumbai, Delhi and Kerala, the debate over reinfections is back. Intensivist Dr Sanjith Saseedharan from Fortis-Raheja Hospital, Mahim is convinced that many are re-infections. He has tested positive…
Updating Universal Healthcare: The Indian Journey of Ayushman Bharat
By Preeti Sudan
Preeti Sudan, Former Union Health Secretary, Government of Indiaamong others
In 2017, the Government of India announced the National Health Policy 2017. Developed through an extensive…
The tropics are experiencing an increase in population and pollution
The world is experiencing a boom in megacities. According to the United Nations, there are currently around 30 urban areas in the world with populations greater than 10 million, mainly in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle…
Study finds 100,000 premature deaths in 8 Indian cities
Air pollution related deaths in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Surat, Pune and Ahmedabad from 2005 to 2018
Air pollution caused more than 100,000 premature deaths in some of India's biggest cities…
A Chennai-Colombo corridor to boost Indo-Lankan connectivity
A host of factors have contributed to the current economic crisis in Sri Lanka, most of which have been discussed and analyzed in detail by several commentators. Although the current government is blamed for the crisis, especially the…
For 8500 years, monsoons affecting the growth of marine plants in the Arabian Sea: study
For 8,500 years now, varying intensities of monsoons over India have affected the growing marine population in the Arabian Sea, according to a new study.
Between 8,500 and 6,000 years before present, there were strong summer monsoons, while…
New non-destructive DNA method opens up opportunities – India Education | Latest Education News |…
A new method of obtaining ancient genomic data without damaging source material has been developed by researchers at the University of Otago, creating new opportunities for museums and archaeological collections around the…
According to the WHO, 99% of the world’s population breathe poor air quality
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations health agency says almost everyone around the world breathes air that does not meet its air quality standards, calling for more action to reduce the use of fossil fuels, which generate pollutants that cause…
Why India must relax the mask mandate
India's daily new Covid-19 cases have fallen to a 23-month low. Naturally, most Covid-related restrictions have…
This horrible war must end
I have been extremely distressed by the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine (which will enter the 32nd day when you read this column). When I first became interested in developments in the world, six words spoken by Pope John XXIII…
There is darkness over India, Who will show the light?
In 1946, I was nine years old and grew up in the small town of Patna. I was barely aware of the important events around me but I clearly remember the cries of "Bajrang bali ki jai" and "Allah hu Akbar", especially as darkness fell over the…
Indians slash needs as war in Ukraine drives up prices | Russia–Ukraine War
Many Indians are reducing their consumption of fried foods and even vegetables as the war in Ukraine inflates the prices of items ranging from edible oils to fuel, threatening a tentative recovery of the consumption-based economy after two…
Mohan Guruswamy | Small states are essential for better governance
The creation of Telangana, nearly 60 years after locals first voiced fears of being co-opted into Andhra Pradesh, is a further step in the rationalization and restructuring of the Union of States India is meant to be. India was never…
Fourth wave in India seems unlikely due to high exposure and vaccination coverage, experts say
Several parts of the world have reported an increase in new Covid-19 cases, but in India experts believe that unless a deadlier variant of the virus emerges, the country is unlikely to see another. wave of infections.The…
Parliament Budget Session 2022-23 India Highlights, Budget Highlights, Rahul Gandhi, Nirmala…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Lok Sabha during the second part of the budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Monday, March 14, 2022. (PTI)
Opposition left puzzled as BJP MPs chant 'Modi, Modi, Modi' as PM enters Lok Sabha…
Prime Minister Modi’s global reach has boosted the BJP electorally
The poll results are also an endorsement of Prime Minister Modi's comments he made at one of his rallies when he attributed the success of Operation Ganga to India's rise to power over the World Scene.
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UP 2022 election result: India’s BJP soars to victory in the country’s most populous…
The party won a clear majority in the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, securing 255 of 403 legislative seats and making it the first party since 1989 to win two consecutive terms in the state. The magnitude of the BJP victory in Uttar…
Why are Indian prisons so overcrowded? | Asia | An in-depth look at news from across the…
Following an increase in prison overcrowding in India, critics are calling for further reforms to the judicial process, to shorten the length of trials and reduce the number of prisoners. Three out of four people held in Indian prisons are…
India ranks 97th in terms of democracy, according to V-Dem report
V-Dem, an independent research institute based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has released a report – Democracy Report 2022 Autocratization Changing Nature? – where he declared that India is among the ten most autocratic…
Leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia discuss the ongoing conflict and…
Ukrainian soldiers are seen in Independence Square in Kiev on March 2. (Timothy Fadek/Redux for CNN)Russia's assault on Ukraine is only a week old, but its consequences have already been catastrophic.In the seven days since Russian troops…
Indian production of Covid-19 Sputnik V vaccine in fix after sanctions on Russian Jab maker
The sanctions imposed by the United States on the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which markets Sputnik V internationally, have raised concerns about the manufacture of the Covid-19 vaccine in India, the second largest producer of…
COVID-19 boost for handwashing in South Asia
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Nicolas Osbert is convinced that when it comes to…
Jio-Facebook partnership: a step towards universal basic Internet
Access to most mobile internet users in India along with the ability to deliver mobile content and applications in Indian languages gives Jio-Facebook a substantial advantage in reaching all Indians currently…
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Indian delegation visits Namibia to discuss translocation of cheetahs | Latest India News
An Indian delegation left for Namibia on Thursday to discuss the logistics of relocating the cheetahs with the Namibian government, according to people familiar with the development. The team, made up of representatives from the…
India needs bespoke plans for ‘bustling villages’ on the border so China doesn’t…
The timing of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget announcement on the Vibrant Villages program was appropriate. It came ahead of schedule – to be precise, exactly a month after China enacted a controversial law through which it…
India administers 1.6 billion doses of vaccine in its fight against COVID-19
NEW DELHI- The collective spirit of 1.3 billion Indians played a key role in achieving this remarkable feat of 1.6 billion vaccinations against COVID-19 – a new milestone. In less than a year, India has administered over 1.6…
India’s internet economy expected to reach $1 trillion by 2030: RedSeer rpt
According to a new report by consultancy firm RedSeer, India's internet economy has been estimated to be booming with over 50% year-on-year growth in 2021 and set to become a…
Omicron Coronavirus Variant Updates
Coronavirus news and live updates: India reported 71,365 new Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Wednesday, taking the country's active case count to 8,92,828. Wednesday's daily case count is higher than 67,597 new infections…
In the state of Brazil, a sign of Omicron’s key advantage | Latest India News
New Delhi:
Scientists have uncovered most of the secrets of the Omicron variant (as well as sister lineages such as BA.2), especially those with the most real-world consequences: the variant spreads faster than any before it, but is much…
The majority of prisoners in India are on trial; accounts for 62% of the total prison population-…
NEW DELHI: Prisoners on trial make up 62% of India's total prison population, compared to a global average of 18-20%. Uttar Pradesh, the country's most populous state, has the highest number of sentenced prisoners,…
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Meet Elmer and Lima, the same-sex New York penguin couple who hatched their first foster egg…
The first chick raised by same-sex penguin parents at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York. (Rosamond Gifford Zoo)On New Year's Day, the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in New York saw the birth of a baby Humboldt penguin chick. But what…
India must review booster dose plans: top virologist | Hyderabad News
Hyderabad: India must reconsider its booster dose strategy in light of the multiple variants of novel coronavirus at play and private labs should be encouraged to perform genome sequencing to better identify variants and threat levels, said…
From onsite to online: how Indian startups are bridging the digital divide
The Covid-19 pandemic in India has given a new lease of life to budding startups to maximize the potential of a global shift from an on-site and in-person reality to a digital one. At times like these, a major challenge has been to reach…
India has lost 259 billion working hours due to climate change, new study finds
India lost an estimated 259 billion working hours per year between 2001 and 2020 due to damp heat impacts, according to a recent to study published by researchers at Duke University. The loss of these productive hours costs India $624…
Unleash India’s Food Processing Potential
Population growth and unrestricted use of natural resources must push nations to have an efficient food value chain
What's for dinner? The answer concerns every living being. Food connects us all and is tied to our community, our…
India’s Tiger Reserve receives prestigious award for doubling the number of tigers in the wild…
India's Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve has been awarded the prestigious TX2 awards after its tiger numbers doubled since 2010. The Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats in the Erode district of Tamil Nadu, spans…
India reports 3.37 lakh new cases, 9,550 fewer than yesterday
Latest update from Omicron Covid-19 India: On Thursday, doctors tend to patients at the Covid care center in New Delhi.
Delhi and Mumbai continued to witness a drop in Covid cases on Friday, recording 10,756 and 5,008 one-day cases…
South of Mysuru to get water from Kapila | Mysore News
Mysuru: People in southern Mysuru will soon get drinking water from the Kapila River. Urban Development Minister Byrathi Basavaraj on Friday gave the green signal for the Rs 150 crore project proposed by the Karnataka Urban Water Supply…
Spread of Omicron and increased social mixing could lead to increased COVID cases in coming weeks:…
New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, combined with increased social mixing, is expected to lead to an increase in new cases of coronavirus in the coming weeks.…
From breeding grounds in Uzbekistan, Anya and Arys migrate to India : The Tribune India
New Delhi, January 18
Anya and Arys - the young Egyptian vultures - after starting their journey from the breeding grounds of the Kyzylkum Desert in Uzbekistan eventually settled in…
IMD launches first Atlas of Weather Hazards and Vulnerability of India
India has obtained its first Climate Vulnerability Atlas, based on 14 extreme weather events and the risks they pose to local people, livelihoods and the economy of each district.
The Atlas of Climate Hazards and Vulnerability of India,…
Death of the Kala-azar in Jharkhand; the condition said to cause comorbidities
For the first time in eight years, Jharkhand has reported one death from kala azar in the state, even as the total number of cases continues to fall. While 752 cases were identified as positive in 2015, the number of provisional cases last…
Data history: India registers 168,063 cases, adds more than 1 million in last 10 days
India on Tuesday reported a net increase of 97,827 active coronavirus cases to bring its tally to 821,446. India's share of active coronavirus cases worldwide now stands at 1.83% (a out of 55). The country is sixth among the…
Covid-19 deaths in India 7 times more than official figures: Research
Latest research based on nationally representative independent surveys and models found that the death toll from Covid-19 in India may have exceeded 32 lakh - around 7 times the official death toll of 4,83,463 reported by the…
How cheetahs went extinct from India, how the government plans to bring them back
The central government recently announced plans to reintroduce the cheetah to the country, nearly 75 years after the big cat went extinct in India. Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Wednesday launched an action plan that will…
Omicron fuels India’s third wave as Mumbai braces for ‘tsunami’ of Covid cases |…
India is in the midst of a third wave of Covid, officials said, as the spread of Omicron has resulted in a doubling of cases in recent days and curfews imposed in cities across the country."India is clearly in the third wave of Covid-19,…
Boris Johnson says Plan B measures will stand despite ‘considerable’ pressure on the NHS
NOTadhim Zahawi said he hoped the instructions for high school students to wear face masks in classrooms would not be in place "one more day than we need."
Students returning to secondary schools in England this week will be required to…
Namaz controversy: offices and condominiums in Gurgaon, and a widening gap
Computer hub, chic suburb of Delhi, one of the richest cities in the country, Gurgaon has carefully cultivated an apolitical cosmopolitanism. As the Friday namaz controversy dies down, the Sunday Express uncovers a sense of fear,…
Ronaldo statue sparks controversy in India
Posted December 29, 2021
A new statue of football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has sparked controversy in the Indian state of Goa.
The people of Goa oppose a Portuguese footballer being honored in place of an Indian player.
Michael…
India turns to vaccines, booster shots to avoid new wave
"We are understaffed," said Ronda Stevenson, an intensive care unit nurse at Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis, who cried when she spoke about her Covid patients. "It's getting harder and harder."Credit...Kaiti Sullivan for The New York…
Less than 50% of target population fully vaccinated in Ludhiana district: La Tribune India
Nitin Jain
Tribune press service
Ludhiana, December 23
Even though the threat of the new variant of Covid Omicron looms, less than 50% of the target population in the district has been…
India’s coliving industry expected to double by 2024: Colliers
Bengaluru: The cohabitation sector in the country is expected to experience a recovery in 2022, driven by the gradual reopening of offices and colleges as well as by vaccination, according to real estate advisor…
More than half of the country’s population has fully tackled COVID 19, Health Minister informs
On Monday, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya informed that more than 50% of India's population had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The health minister said vaccinating 130 crore people in the country was a big challenge…
omicron: Doubling of Omicron cases in 3 days in community transmission areas: WHO | India News
NEW DELHI: The Omicron variant is spreading with a doubling time of between 1.5 and 3 days in countries where community transmission is documented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest update on the new strain, which also…
JAM trinity transformed the concept of financial inclusion: CS Setty from SBI
The Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM) trinity has transformed the whole concept of financial inclusion in India and that is a great story, said CS Setty, Managing Director of the State Bank of India (SBI), during of the…
Cardiologist advocates for vaccine fairness in India’s response to COVID-19
In March, India began witnessing a second round of increase in COVID-19 cases. In April, the country had recorded 100,000 new cases per day for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Daily case rates would continue to grow…
Kashi Vishwanath Dham from Modi, a corridor to the “New India”
More than 51,000 seats were prepared to broadcast on Monday the mega inauguration ceremony of the âKashi Vishwanath Dhamâ (Kashi Vishwanath corridor) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which will be…