Dr MS Swaminathan, the agricultural scientist known as the father of India’s Green Revolution, passed away at his home in Chennai. He was 98, and is survived by three daughters, including former WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan....
This is despite the army’s demand for re-imposition of AFSPA in the valley districts to aid anti-insurgency operations; this year, Manipur has seen the highest number of civilian killings since 1999
In a bid to encourage organ donation, the government of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has offered to conduct the funerals of donors with state honours.
India manufactures a significant share of the world’s pharmaceuticals, thanks in part to strict laws against frivolous patents and evergreening. However, a proposed change could make it harder for third parties to object to the granting of patents. This could hurt the Indian pharmaceutical industry as companies shift...
The draft patent amendment rules made public on August 23 this year could hugely benefit big pharma but turn out to be disastrous for patients in India and in countries in the global South, which rely on generic drugs manufactured in India, in accessing affordable drugs and vaccines.
Myanmar-based leaders of insurgent groups and proscribed terror outfits were ‘collecting arms, ammunition and explosives by unlawful means, including plunder and pillage of government facilities’, the agency alleges
“We are there to work constructively with India,” said the Canadian Prime Minister
The AR has written to Manipur police alerting that “few Meitei miscreants” may use refurbished civilian trucks, which resemble vehicles used by the paramilitary force, for “anti-national activities”
“We are there to work constructively with India,” said the Canadian Prime Minister
Other than the 11 FIRs with the CBI, there are more than 6,500 FIRs, registered between May and July, being investigated by the Manipur Police. The top court had asked former Maharashtra DGP Dattatray Padsalgikar to supervise the State investigations also.
There have been instances of men in uniform, firing at Central security forces deployed in buffer zones using automatic weapons, preceded by blockade and protest by women-led groups; an official says military fatigues and police uniforms are readily available in the State while weapons looted from police armouries are being sold...
Sudanese activists and medical workers say at least 40 people were killed in a drone attack on an open market south of the capital, Khartoum
Researchers said they found spyware they linked to Israeli firm NSO that exploited a newly discovered flaw in Apple devices
Students said the caste discrimination survey design was ‘biased, insensitive, problematic’; the institute’s SC/ST Cell says it was not consulted and will examine the issue
A Chinese embassy spokesperson in Washington said that accusations of China using AI to create fake social media accounts were “full of prejudice and malicious speculation”
There is also an acute shortage of specialist doctors, vaccines, they say
The Supreme Court of India’s order in the Gyanvapi mosque case raises serious questions about its legality, propriety and justness
The renewable energy projects, coming up in Mannar and Pooneryn in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, are expected to be completed by 2025
With benefits including better attendance and enrolment at schools already emerging from the Chief Minister’s Breakfast Scheme first implemented in a few schools in 2022, its recent extension to all primary schools across Tamil Nadu is being feted as a welcome, progressive initiative, writes Ramya Kannan
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said that Jammu and Kashmir is ready for polls now and three elections are due soon — panchayat, municipality and State legislative assembly elections
As food becomes increasingly unaffordable, more families are eating unbalanced or unfulfilling meals
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Family of the boy in Rajasthan says he was harassed by two of his teachers who used casteist slurs against him and that the school principal did not take action even after complaints