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Reserve Bank of India (RBI). File | Photo Credit: Reuters Foreign currency non-resident (Bank) or FCNR(B) deposits, which were introduced in 1993, will prove to be a litmus test for the country’s ability to mobilise long-term foreign currency resources from its vast global diaspora. At a time of geopolitical fragmentation, volatile capital flows and uncertain…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: AP Gujarat has begun the process of developing a region-specific antivenom using venom collected from snakes found within the State. Why are scientists calling for geographically representative antivenoms? How is India’s existing antivenom made? And will region-specific products improve snakebite treatment? The story so far Gujarat…
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A thick layer of smog can be seen near India Gate amid rising pollution in New Delhi on November 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap The story so far: Air pollution in Delhi has been in the ‘severe’ and ‘severe plus’ category for the most part of the last 10 days. This week,…
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The logo of the COP29 United Nations climate change conference is seen next to the temporary fences in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: The 29th edition of the Conference of Parties (COP), arguably the most important of the UN’s climate conferences, was scheduled to end on…
Palestinians warm by the fire in the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far: Saudi Arabia hosted a summit of leaders from Arab and Islamic countries last week to discuss the Palestine question. The summit demanded…
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A Texas delegate holds a sign during the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 17, 2024. Donald Trump has pledged to launch — on day one of his presidency — the largest deportation operation of undocumented immigrants in U.S. history. | Photo Credit: AFP The story so far:…
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Children, senior citizens, pregnant women, those with pre-existing co morbidities, and people forced to work in the open are more vulnerable to the impact of heat. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The story so far: The Tamil Nadu government, last week, notified a heatwave as a State-specific disaster. This would entail providing relief to…
Security personnel stand guard near a “Golden Bridge on Silk Road” decoration for the Belt and Road Forum outside the China National Convention Center in Beijing, China, April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee | Photo Credit: JASON LEE The story so far: The Brazilian government indicated this week that it may not want to join China’s…
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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Suburban Collection Showplace on October 26, 2024 in Novi, Michigan. Photo: Getty Images via AFP The story so far: Around 24.4 crore people are eligible to vote for the U.S. presidential election slated for November 5. In 2020, two-thirds of the…
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A screen displaying a picture of this year’s laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum is seen during the announcement of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 7, 2024. Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum won the Nobel medicine prize on October 7, 2024…