Spread the love GUWAHATI Researchers across two continents may have given an iron-and-zinc boost for India’s Millets Mission, launched as a concept in 2007 and taken forward a decade later. Nutrition and health specialists in India and the U.S. conducted a nine-month study among toddlers in Mumbai’s urban slums. They found that iron- and zinc-fortified pearl millets fed to these...
Meta AI head to American startups: Serving US govt is not a matter of convenience
Spread the love Meta AI head Meta AI head Alexandr Wang has called on American startups to treat serving the US government as a fundamental principle rather than a commercial convenience. Reacting to a post shared by Aakash Sabharwal, VP of engineering at Scale AI, Wang said: “Serving the US government should not be a commercial convenience, it must be...
Vijay vs Udhayanidhi: CM rejects DMK’s all-party meet demand on Cauvery dispute
Spread the love CM Vijay rejects all-party meet NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister C Joseph Vijay on Friday ruled out an all-party meeting on Karnataka’s proposed Mekedatu Dam and the Cauvery water dispute, rejecting leader of opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin‘s demand and urging the opposition not to “play politics” over the issue.Speaking in the assembly, Vijay asserted that his TVK-led...
What a water-wise city would look like – and how India can get there
Spread the love Urban India’s water emergency will not be fixed by better crisis management alone. Over the coming decades, hundreds of millions more people will live and work in Indian cities, driving a sharp increase in the urban water demand. And unless we change how we design, finance, and govern water systems, we will simply scale up today’s shortages,...
Jharkhand protest day 14: Student shifted to hospital after health worsens
Spread the love The protesting students formed an 11-member delegation on Thursday to hold discussions with the state government RANCHI: A student who was on hunger strike was shifted from Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium to Sadar Hospital on Friday after his health condition reportedly deteriorated, as the protest over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations entered its 14th day.Six students have...
‘Ask me anything’: Rahul on Instagram reveals his favourite BJP leader
Spread the love Rahul Gandhi launched an Instagram “Ask Me Anything” session for young people NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched an “Ask Me Anything” session on Instagram as part of a fresh outreach to Gen Z, responding to questions on student protests, women’s education, politics and even lighter topics such as Batman.Sharing the initiative on X,...
Travis Kelce & Patrick Mahomes’ 1587 lawsuit enters key phase amid court update
Spread the love Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes’ 1587 lawsuit enters its most significant phase amid major new federal court developments(Getty) Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes are facing a major new development in the legal dispute surrounding their 1587 Steakhouse. A fresh court filing has challenged the Chiefs stars’ claims about their connection to the restaurant and pushed the trademark...
Watch: Scared Thailand school students duck under desks as gunshots ring out; 7 dead
Spread the love Video shows Thailand students hiding under desks during school shooting (Image: X@/CatchUpFeed) At least eight people were killed on Friday after a student opened fire at a school in Thailand before turning the gun on himself, a national police official said.The gunman first shot and killed his grandparents at their home before opening fire at the school.The...
China’s pharma has a ‘monkey problem’ as tough as ‘negotiating with Nvidia’
Spread the love Lab monkeys now cost $26,294 each in China, and biotech firms say sourcing them is as hard as securing Nvidia chips. In June, a Chinese state laboratory paid 178,000 yuan—about $26,294—for each of 40 cynomolgus macaques. Twelve months earlier, the same animal would have cost roughly half that. Similar spikes have rippled through the industry, according to...
NTA’s own experts leaked NEET-UG papers for cash, CBI chargesheet alleges
Spread the love The CBI has filed a chargesheet naming thirteen individuals in a paper leak conspiracy. NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has concluded that the alleged NEET-UG 2026 paper leak was the result of a well-coordinated, multi-state criminal conspiracy in which confidential question papers were leaked by National Testing Agency (NTA) subject experts and circulated through...
