India’s quest for living a disease-free and super-productive life has been focused on preventive personal healthcare with a renewed thrust on identifying and implementing a set of dietary and habitual changes that work best for a person. In Ayurveda, this set of characteristics is known as prakriti or the characteristic personality of an individual. To make the […]
Further bolstering the fight against Covid-19, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee have identified three anti-viral molecules that could effectively work as therapeutics against the contentious disease. The anti-viral molecules have been identified through drug repurposing, computational and antiviral experimental studies, according to the researchers. Several computational and experimental studies have taken […]
In a first, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras has generated more than ₹1,000 crores in funding and revenue, including ₹313 crores in industry consultancy, during the current financial year, said officials. The institute has received ₹768 crores of funds from projects sanctioned by the state and Central governments during Financial Year 2021-22. IIT-M […]
The milk we consume is often laced with harmful adulterants like detergent, soap and urea, and the process of detection is not easy. But now we have a convenient and affordable solution for the task, credit to Lovely Professional University (LPU). Researchers at Punjab-based LPU have developed low-cost, convenient and easy-to-use paper strips that can be used to check adulteration for […]
Amid the escalating war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday showered praises on PM Narendra Modi and India’s independent foreign policy, calling him a “true patriot”. Speaking at an event of the prestigious think-tank Valdai Discussion Club, the Russian president also said that “a great future lies ahead of India”. In his speech […]
A staggering number of young lives are lost in school bus accidents in India due to reasons ranging from drunken driving to technical glitches. Hardly a day passes when we do not read reports about kids being killed in road accidents while being ferried to school. As many as 16 kids were killed in Andhra, 23 […]
The maternal ancestry of Nepal is a mixture of South Asian and East Asian populations, as per an international study, which also said that some ethnic groups — especially Newar and Magar — derived their ancestry from Myanmar, Tibet, and India. A team, led by K Thangaraj, director of CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology […]
In a technological innovation that could transform the way you interact with smartphones, Indian researchers have developed a new touchscreen display technology which enables users to feel the texture of images as their fingers move across the touch surface. Existing touchscreens can only sense your location of finger touch. Developed by researchers at the Indian […]
With the demise of its tallest leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, the powerful Yadav family of Uttar Pradesh seems to be in a re-thinking mode and the dynamics among family members appears to be changing – again. The Yadav family, having its root in Etawah’s Saifai, has been the subject of renewed public interest ever since […]
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee have developed a simple and affordable point-of-use technology that can remove arsenic – one of the most common water pollutants – and heavy metals from contaminated water. The consumption of arsenic-contaminated water has also been associated with cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Arsenic tends to cause negative […]