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India’s Rural Job Scheme Could Also Help Sequester Carbon
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) launched in 2006 to ensure livelihood security of rural people can… Read More
Study to Help Develop Better Treatment for Blood-Related Disorders
Newer and better treatments could soon be on the anvil for leukemia and other blood-related disorders with researchers developing a… Read More
New Data Processing Technique to Accurately Measure Soot
Tiny black particles that rise from a campfire flame, called soot, are formed when the fuel doesn’t burn entirely. When… Read More
Researchers Develop Super-Hydrophobic Cotton for Oil-Spill Cleanup
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed a new class of super-hydrophobic cotton composite with Metal-Organic… Read More
Call for Reforms in Ease of Doing Science
Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India, Prof. K Vijay Raghavan has called for reforms in the space of ease of… Read More
Jurassic-Age Shark’s Teeth Discovered from Jaisalmer Basin
In a rare discovery, researchers have found evidence of a new species of an extinct group of sharks called hybodont… Read More
Researchers Develop Low-Carbon Bricks for Energy-Efficient Buildings
Energy efficiency brings a variety of benefits which include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing demand for energy imports, and lowering… Read More
Step up Measures to Build Back Better: Says UNCTAD
Shifting decisively away from four decades driven by a misplaced faith in unregulated markets, and breathing new life into multilateral… Read More
Antiretroviral Therapy Effectively Reduces HIV Deaths: Study
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a virus that attacks the body's immune system. HIV causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)… Read More
Into the (Not So) Unknown: Business and Human Rights
According to the recent Carbon Disclosure Project Report, carbon-conscious consumerism has quadrupled in the last five years. In the fast-moving… Read More