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U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 27, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden implored the top four leaders of Congress on February 27 to act…
Kiren Rijiju said there is no law and order in West Bengal (File photo) South 24 Parganas (West Bengal): In response to Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s allegations on Sunday that the state police is not able to arrest Sandeshkhali prime accused, Sheikh Shahjahan due to legal complications, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju said that…
There have been only five scientists who have won two Nobel Prizes – Polish-French physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1903, 1911), American scientist Linus Pauling (1954, 1962), American physicist and electrical engineer John Bardeen (1956, 1972), British biochemist Frederick Sanger (1958, 1980), and American stereochemist Barry Sharpless (2001, 2022). Additionally, there have been two organisations…
Chief Minister A.Revanth Reddy, Industries Minister D.Sridhar Babu, officials with members of the leadership team of Miltenyi Biotec at the BioAsia 2024 in Hyderabad on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Arrangement German firm Miltenyi Biotec on Tuesday announced the launch of operations in India with the opening of an office in Hyderabad and further plans to…
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File picture of India’s Dhruv Jurel and Akash Deep during net practice. The pair were instrumental in India’s win over England in the 4th Test at Ranchi | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji One is a war veteran’s son who threatened to run away from home if his father didn’t buy him a kit and allow…
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The floating bridge was inaugurated on the popular RK Beach Visakhapatnam: The Andhra Pradesh government on Tuesday rejected claims that a part of the floating bridge that was inaugurated at the beach here on February 25 was washed away, and said it was done as part of a mock drill. The floating bridge was inaugurated…
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Leap years have been with us since the 16th century. Paris: An extra day every four years, what’s not to love? The calendar quirk of February 29 keeps us in sync with the seasons but it has also spawned a host of rituals and superstitions, not to mention computer glitches, which AFP unpacks here: Why…
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Court held that his motive was to create terror in the neighbourhood. (Representational) Mumbai: Terming the act as “barbaric and inhuman”, a court in Mumbai on Tuesday awarded a death sentence to a transgender person for raping and murdering a three-month-old girl. Society’s fabric gets damaged beyond repair due to such crimes, observed Aditee Kadam,…
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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses FICCI’s National Conclave on ‘Viksit Bharat@2047’, in New Delhi on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: ANI The Narendra Modi government’s third term in office will place reforms in all factors of production, including land, labour and capital on “top of the agenda” along with the “21st century factor” of digital…
For nearly seven decades since their discovery in 1898, viruses were the only organisms at the boundary between the living and the non-living. Their obligate host dependence, parasitism, and small genome sizes collectively made sure they weren’t classified as ‘life’per se. Each virion is composed of a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) core that serves…
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