The female common langur that had returned to the city zoo after going missing earlier in the week has moved from the wild jackfruit tree that it had been perched on for the past two days to another tree. The langur had not left the zoo premises, zoo officials confirmed on Saturday evening. As the … Read more
Protesters have been camping in tents after blocking a 1-km stretch of NH-21 near Arauda village since April 21. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement The Jaipur-Agra national highway remained blocked in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district for the sixth consecutive day on Wednesday, as protesters demanding 12% separate reservation for a group of Other Backward Class (OBC) … Read more
Sun-dried brick and kiln-fired brick structures unearthed in a trench on mound number one (RGR-1) at Rakhigarhi, a Harappan site in Haryana, where excavation was under way on April 6, 2022. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR The government is all set to reintroduce the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (AMASR) (Amendment) Bill … Read more
Voting for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections in 89 seats across 19 districts of Saurashtra-Kutch and southern regions ended at 5 p.m. on December 1, 2022. Barring a few minor incidents and some reports of problems in the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the voting process, which commenced at 8 am, remained largely … Read more
The hill shrine is scheduled to reopen at 7.30 p.m. after post-eclipse rituals are performed The hill shrine is scheduled to reopen at 7.30 p.m. after post-eclipse rituals are performed The Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala remained closed for about more than eleven hours on October 25 (Tuesday) in connection with solar eclipse. The temple … Read more
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No more harmful than an unwanted pregnancy Women who receive a wanted abortion often fare much better than those denied an abortion, added Diana Greene Foster, a professor with the University of California, San Francisco’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Foster cited the Turnaway Study, a long-term … Read more
A lot of progress has been made in the fight against breast cancer, but much work remains. Here’s what the experts say needs to happen next. Source link