New Delhi, August 9 (IANS) With the National Education Policy 2020 recognising the need for flexibility in choosing the subjects that a student wants to study, implementation of this policy will boost science,
New Delhi, August 8 (IANS) Quite obviously, Independence Day - August 15 - means different things to different people. Is it tainted with pain, despair, and bloodshed due to Partition and the long drawn struggl
New Delhi, August 8 (IANS) For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), determined to shape the world in its own image without a shot being fired, the Cold War never ended 30 years ago as it aims to make China the nu
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New Delhi, August 7 (IANS) Even as the film 'Peepli Live', India's official entry for the 83rd Acadmey Awards Best Foreign Film category completes a decade this month, its
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New Delhi, August 7 (IANSlife) As the world at large continues to lose people to the rising Covid-19 toll, the impact of the pandemic are exacerbated for women and girls. Restrictive soc
On Wednesday, Chief Aritana Yawalapiti, one of Brazil's most influential indigenous leaders died from COVID-19 aged 71
BRASILIA, August 6 (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Pr
Ayodhya, August 4 (IANS): Thirty years is not a small period -- to heal. But for Purnima Kothari, living in the suburbs of Kolkata, a lifetime may be too short to move on from the fact that her two brothers --
Indigenous activists want places named after colonialists to revert to traditional names that have been used for 60,000 years
BRISBANE, August 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Like many indigenous Au
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New Delhi, August 3 (IANS) With the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya slated to take place on August 5, retired judge Justice Manmohan Singh Liberhan, who in
New Delhi, August 2 (IANS) India's COVID-19 recovery difference compared to active cases has increased from 1,573 to 5,77,899 in just 52 days amid a spike in new infections, a signal for those under observa
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) The Modi government came out with the New Education Policy 2020, replacing a 34-year-old national policy on education. Under the new policy, students will get a chance to take the board
LONDON/CHICAGO, August 1 (Reuters) - It's dog eat dog in the world of COVID-19 vaccines.
That's the fear of global health agencies planning a scheme to bulk-buy and equitably distribute vaccines
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IANS | July 31
It will be a befitting culmination of about five centuries of perseverance, reverence and penance of crores of devotees when the Hon'ble Prime Minister Narendra Modiji
July 31 (Reuters) - Children younger than five carried major amounts of coronavirus in their upper respiratory tract, a small study published on Thursday showed, raising new questions about whether kids can inf
A noise-cancelling system designed to fit on apartment windows can also encourage more natural ventilation for better health
BANGKOK, July 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Residents in Southeast Asia's
Bengaluru, Jul 30 (IANS): Terming the Union Cabinet's approval of the New Education Policy as historic, its draft committee chairman Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan on Thursday said it (policy) would be a game-c
Nashra Balagamwala's game highlights the pressures faced by girls and women being pressured to enter an arranged marriage
LONDON, July 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Nashra Balagamwala's Pa
Smartphones help classes continue as schools remain closed, but the poorest families are struggling to keep up
MUMBAI, July 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kuldip Kumar, a farmer from northern India, sol
New Delhi, July 26 (IANS) Captain Vijayant Thapar of 2 Rajputana Rifles was awarded a Vir Chakra, the nations third highest medal for gallantry for having fought bravely the crucial battles of Tololing and Knol
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Bengaluru, July 26 (IANS) With no sign of the pandemic flattening the curve, as evident from the daily surge in positive cases across the country, Bengaluru-based eminent pediatric cardiolo