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The Critical Minerals Summit was concluded in New Delhi on a note of strategic collaboration and policy insights, marking significant strides towards India's critical minerals objectives.
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The Critical Minerals Summit was concluded in New Delhi on a note of strategic collaboration and policy insights, marking significant strides towards India's critical minerals objectives.
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Capping consumption of urea and DAP to correct worsening plant nutrient imbalance is likely on the new government's priority list after the Lok Sabha polls.
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The Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-Guwahati) claimed that its researchers achieved a significant breakthrough in speech technology by developing a novel method to generate human speech signals directly from vocal cord vibration signals.
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According to a newly released Plastic Overshoot Day (POD) Report, India will release 31,483 tonnes of chemical additives from microplastics and will be the second leading polluter of waterways through this method after China (59,208 tonnes) in 2024.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have written to Apple CEO Tim Cook demanding answers on the sourcing of minerals used to manufacture the company’s products.
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Chhattisgarh-based environment and forest activist Alok Shukla has been honoured with the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.
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The discovery of the world’s deepest blue hole in Mexico’s Chetumal Bay off the southeast coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, has captivated the attention of geologists, marine biologists, and adventurers alike.
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The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully conducted the flight test of the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island, situated off the coast of Odisha.
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According to a new study by Verizon Business, India is one of the key countries affected by phishing attacks, where employees often click on malicious links or attachments that appear to be from legitimate sources, often leading to severe financial losses.
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According to the international team of researchers that conducted the study about quarks, the finding rejects “conventional particle-physics models in which the consolidation of quarks is independent of the particle environment”.
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For the past six months, India’s foreign policy has been grappling with the Maldives challenge. The elections and subsequent political trajectory in the Maldives are not only important for the island state but also matter for India.
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Conserving these Old World primates could help save Africa’s tropical forests.
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An intensive modelling study has found methane emissions from fossil fuels declined between 1990 and the 2000s and have been stable since, whereas microbes have been producing more methane of late.
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Given political turmoil in different countries across the globe, Indian industries wanting to spread their wings beyond Indian shores have been seeking political risk insurance (PRI).
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The Supreme Court restored the compensation of Rs 5 lakhs awarded by the district consumer forum in a medical negligence case by underlining that the state and central consumer courts incorrectly applied the ‘eggshell skull’ legal principle.
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The reform of labour institutions is always in the air as objective (variables) and subjective (orientation of agencies involved) factors keep changing.
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The year 2024 commemorates 50 years since the launch of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1974, a program focused on equity in childhood vaccine access.
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For the past six months, India’s foreign policy has been grappling with the Maldives challenge. The elections and subsequent political trajectory in the Maldives are not only important for the island state but also matter for India.
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Estonia has accused neighbouring Russia of jamming GPS navigation devices in airspace above the Baltic states, echoing concerns from airlines that say they have been contending with such interference for months.
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During the election campaign, the ruling government and opposition engaged in heated discussions about wealth redistribution, and the Supreme Court formed a nine-judge bench to interpret the Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP) regarding resource ownership and control.
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Energy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations have reached a deal to shut down their coal-fired power plants in the first half of the 2030s, in a significant step towards the transition away from fossil fuels.
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To increase the adoption of credit on the United Payments Interface (UPI), the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) is looking at an interchange fee for transactions.
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A notable feature of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) latest Monetary Policy Report is the primacy given to “extreme weather events” and “climate shocks,” which affect not only food inflation but also likely have a broader impact on the natural rate of interest, thereby influencing the economy’s financial stability.
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In southwestern Pakistan's Hingol National Park, Hindu pilgrims ascend steep mud volcanoes to reach the ancient cave temple of Hinglaj Mata during the Hinglaj Yatra.
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The first Hangor class submarine, built by China for Pakistan, was launched at a Wuhan shipyard in China.
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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is working on instituting a Telecom Patent Fund (TPF) in a bid to bolster innovation and support indigenous technology development.
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A fresh set of ‘alert indicators’ have been issued by India’s financial intelligence unit (FIU) for capital markets, insurance companies, online payment gateway intermediaries and crypto currency service providers for effective checking of suspicious transactions in their channels as part of the anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regime.
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The Election Commission of India (EC), under Sections 58(2) and 58A(2) of the Representation of People Act, 1951 (RPA), recently declared the polls in 11 polling stations in Manipur and 8 polling stations in Arunachal Pradesh void.
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The complexities of the ways in which global warming manifests in local weather continue to underscore the need to model globally but predict locally.
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The Centre has renamed and repurposed four institutes under the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to broaden their scope of work by incorporating data science, artificial intelligence and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).