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Finance Commission expected to be constituted by November end: Finance secretary

August 20, 2023 admin

T.V. Somanathan, Finance Secretary. File. | Photo Credit: KAMAL NARANG The government is expected to constitute the 16th Finance Commission by end of November, Finance Secretary T V Somanathan said. Finance Commission is a constitutional body that gives suggestions on Centre-State financial relations. It suggests, among other things, the ratio in which tax is to…

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Vegetable prices likely to cool down next month, says Finance Ministry

August 20, 2023 admin

The retail inflation touched a 15-month high of 7.44% in July, a spike from 4.87% in June. File | Photo Credit: PTI The government expects vegetable prices to start cooling off from next month with the advent of new crops in the market, but rising crude oil prices is a concern even though it is still…

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Chandrayaan-3 | ISRO one step away from landing on Moon as Lander Module completes second deboost operation

August 20, 2023 admin

The ISRO on August 20 said it successfully reduced the orbit of the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s Lander Module (LM), further bringing it nearer to the moon. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Lander Module of India’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 has completed its second and final deebost in the early hours of August 20. The Indian Space…

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Chandrayaan-3 | ISRO one step away from landing on Moon as Lander Module completes second deboost operation

August 19, 2023 admin

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Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch, space agency says

August 19, 2023 admin

A picture taken from the camera of the lunar landing spacecraft Luna-25 shows the Zeeman crater located on the far side of the moon, on August 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters An “abnormal situation” occurred at Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft on August 20 as it was preparing to transfer to its pre-landing orbit, Russia’s national…

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Is it possible to remove microplastics from water?

August 19, 2023 admin

Could plants be the answer to the looming threat of microplastic pollution? Scientists at the University of British Columbia’s BioProducts Institute found that if you add tannins — natural plant compounds that make your mouth pucker if you bite into an unripe fruit — to a layer of wood dust, you can create a filter…

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Warming-induced glacier retreat could create novel ecosystems

August 19, 2023 admin

Climate change caused by human activity under a high-emissions scenario may halve the area covered by glaciers outside the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets by the end of the century, as per a study published in Nature. This will have marked ecological and societal cascading consequences, as novel ecosystems develop to fill emerging new habitats. However,…

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The world of sugar

August 19, 2023 admin

Sugar’s societal dominance is a story of progress and a bitter-sweet tale of exploitation, racism, obesity and environmental destruction, a new book by Dr. Ulbe Bosma finds Source link

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A trial to test a new path for preventing Alzheimer’s

August 19, 2023 admin

Last month, a wave of excitement swept through the world of Alzheimer’s research after Eli Lilly published results of a trial of their drug, donanemab. They found that the drug slowed cognitive decline in 47% of those who took the drug, vis-à-vis 29% who got a placebo. ‘Slowed’ here meant staving off the disease for…

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India’s ONGC Videsh Secures 3-Year Extension To Explore South China Sea

August 19, 2023 admin

ONGC Videsh is the overseas investment arm of India’s top oil explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Mumbai: Indian energy company ONGC Videsh has secured a three-year extension from Vietnam to explore ‘Block 128’ in the South China Sea, it said in a post on social messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Conflicting territorial…

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