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India has begun to use technology to reunite lost children with their families

The latest facial recognition technology identified almost 3,000 missing children in four days.

Atul Gawande, the man Jeff Bezos & Warren Buffet picked to head a US healthcare venture

Atul Gawande, a Boston-based surgeon, also teaches at Harvard Medical School and is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.

Trash course from a Chemistry professor in Mohali

Samrat Ghosh of  Mohali has built a unique dustbin under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan that makes them easier to clean and keeps the animals away.

ISRO to launch free satellite training programme for students from developing nations

Students expected from 45 countries for 8-week course. Chief says ISRO will launch satellites that meet quality standards

Google is training machines to predict when a patient will die

Google creates a new algorithm which can predict the survival chance of patients. It can even show the records that helped it arrive at the conclusion.

US weather agency issues El Niño alert, says conditions for its development right

In India, the El Niño has been known to cause or exacerbate drought as well as affect seasonal monsoon. Its impact this year, if it develops, remains to be seen.

90% of plastic polluting our oceans comes from 8 Asian rivers

Indus & the Ganges carry second & sixth highest amounts of plastic debris to the ocean.

Curbing teen pregnancy can help check India’s anaemia epidemic, study finds

An estimated 53% of India’s women in the reproductive age group are said to suffer from anaemia, according to the latest National Family Health Survey.

When did humans first learn to count?

All computation and algebra that we know today, had developed over time in India and gradually transmitted to the Western world by Islamic scholars. 

Psychedelic drugs can be the answer to depression and much more

Psychedelic drugs can affect brain function and alter its neuronal structure impacting how we feel and behave, claims research. 

On Camera

Congress can’t deny Modi’s charge of Muslim quota. Karnataka & 2009 manifesto are proof

The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.

Foreign policy resonating among more Indians in 2nd & 3rd tier towns of India, says EAM Jaishankar

Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.