Getty Images An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types of cell – such as heart muscle or nerve cells. Instead the Human Cell Atlas project has revealed there … Read more
The combine of trade unions in the Kerala Water Authority (KWA) will continue with its protests against the proposed Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Kerala Urban Water Services Improvement Project (KUWSIP) in Kochi as talks held with Water Resources Minister Roshy Augustine on Tuesday failed to make headway on the issue. The trade unions will take … Read more
Uddhav Thackeray releases his party’s manifesto for upcoming Maharashtra Assembly Elections 2024 at his residence in Mumbai on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Shivsena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray unveiled his party’s manifesto for the Maharashtra Assembly polls on Thursday (November 7, 2024), assuring free education for male students, stabilising prices of essential items and scrapping … Read more
In this file image, Cheetahs at Kuno National Park (KNP) in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district. | Photo Credit: PTI In the wake of incidents of cheetahs from Madhya Pradesh straying into neighbouring Rajasthan, a joint corridor management committee of both the states has been formed to work for conservation of the felines, officials said on … Read more
The BBMP’s Animal Husbandry Department organised the Festival of Dogs (Kukur Tihar), to celebrate its initiative of feeding stray dogs in select areas across eight zones in Bengaluru on October 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) launched a pilot project on Thursday (October 17, 2024) to provide food … Read more
BBC News Alex Green in now in remission from his cancer Alex Green is clear – without immunotherapy, he would have died in 2019. His advanced melanoma skin cancer was only stopped by the revolutionary treatment that recruits the body’s own immune system to fight the disease. But unfortunately at the moment the majority of … Read more
The e-rupee, or the digital rupee, is a digital currency issued by the RBI [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The story so far: Fintech companies including Google, PhonePe, Amazon Pay, Cred, and Mobikwik are looking to join the Indian central bank’s digital currency project by allowing their users to transact in e-rupee via Unified Payments … Read more
Opposition leader V.D. Satheesan inaugurating a public meeting organised by the district wing of the United Democratic Front in Kochi to highlight the role of former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in the Vizhinjam port project. | Photo Credit: R.K. Nithin Opposition leader V.D. Satheesan on Friday said the Vizhinjam port project was the United Democratic … Read more
The State government has decided to study housing schemes for the poor and weaker sections under implementation in different States before taking up the Indiramma housing scheme here. Deputy Chief Minister (Finance and Energy) Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka has directed officials of the Housing department to visit different States in this regard and submit a comprehensive … Read more
TPCC working president T. Jayaprakash Reddy addressing a press conference in Hyderabad on Friday. TPCC working president T. Jayaprakash Reddy said that Union Ministers G. Kishan Reddy and Bandi Sanjay Kumar should ensure establishment of the Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR), an IT corridor project sanctioned by the UPA government but later scrapped by the … Read more