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Nobel in chemistry: Duo win 2021 Prize for developing molecule building tools

New Delhi: German scientist Benjamin List and Scottish-born David MacMillan were on Wednesday declared winners of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing new tools for building molecules that have helped make new, more environment-friendly drugs. The duo will share the 10-million Swedish kronor ($1.14-million) Prize for their separate work on asymmetric organo-catalysis, which […]

Fishwaale: India’s first e-fish marketing app launched in Assam

New Delhi: Assam Minister of Fisheries, Environment, Forest, and Excise, Parimal Suklabaidya on Tuesday launched India’s first e-fish marketing app Fishwaale in the northeastern state. Developed by Aqua Blue Global Aquaculture Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in collaboration with the Fisheries Department, the app will work as a one-stop solution for aquaculture. The platform will allow buyers […]

Eminent actor Arvind “Ravan” Trivedi, 82, passes away in Mumbai

Ahmedabad: Veteran Gujarati and Hindi actor Arvind Trivedi, who essayed the unforgettable role of Lanka’s monarch, Ravan, in Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan tele serial in the 1980s, passed away in Mumbai on Tuesday night He was 82. His end came at his Kandivali residence in Mumbai, where he succumbed to a heart attack and multiple organ […]

UN agencies warn of acute malnutrition among under-5 Afghan children

New Delhi: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Programme (WFP) have warned that over 3 million Afghan children, aged less than 5 years, will be at a higher risk of acute malnutrition by the year-end. At present, 14 million Afghanis suffer from water and food shortages and a lack of basic health […]

Climate meet: Jitendra says India committed to reduce carbon emissions

New Delhi: Union Minister of State for Earth Sciences Dr. Jitendra Singh on Monday said India is committed to reducing carbon emissions over the Antarctic atmosphere. Virtually addressing an international conference on Monday, he said India had adopted the green energy initiative in a big way by experimenting with the feasibility of wind energy production […]

Healthcare: India presents first two of 109 life support ambulances to Bangladesh

New Delhi: India on Tuesday presented two life support ambulances to Sylhet Osmania Medical College and Hospital and the Khadimpara 31-bed hospital in Sylhet Sadar, Bangladesh, respectively. The Indian Ambassador to Bangladesh, Vikram Doraiswami, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Dr. A.K.Abdul Momin, were present at the event held at the Sylhet Osmania […]

Sports: India wins two more gold medals in ISSF Jr. World Championship 2021

New Delhi: Indian shooter Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar, 20, created a new world record and bagged a gold medal in the Men’s 50m Rifle 3 positions event of the ISSF Junior World Championship 2021 at Lima, Peru, on Tuesday. After equalling the previous world record of 1185 points to top the list of qualifiers, he […]

Nobel in Physics: Three share the 2021 Prize

New Delhi: Three Scientists from Japan, Italy, and Germany have shared the Nobel Prize in Physics, 2021, for their work on climate change and fluctuations in physical systems, media reported on Tuesday. The Nobel Committee awarded the prestigious Prize to Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on “the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, […]

Covid-19: Outlaws new source, NZ admits it cannot get rid of the coronavirus!

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: New Zealand, the country to have launched a “zero-tolerance” strategy last year to contain the pandemic, only to find itself embarrassed as the contagion returned, has admitted that it cannot get rid of the coronavirus which has mutated multiple times, the latest being its Delta variant. Interestingly, the disease is […]

Outage and outrage: FB chief Zuckerberg’s personal wealth down by $ 7bn

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: How do fortunes fall? Although social media giant Facebook, and its products Instagram and WhatsApp, partly resumed work after a six-hour-long outage on Monday, their owner Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth plummeted by $7  billion in almost as many hours. The three apps, all owned by Facebook and run on shared […]
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