WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
With detailed radar maps as their guide, archeologists have explored the jungle beyond the ancient ruins of Angkor in Cambodia and uncovered remnants of previously unknown temples and new evidence of an earlier culture that occupied the famous site.
New evidence of a prehistoric civilization and remnants of ancient temples in Angkor, Cambodia, have been discovered by researchers using highly detailed maps produced with data from an airborne imaging radar instrument created by NASA.
The Union Government has taken a decision to delegate the power of providing education for all children in the country to the State governments, and a committee has been formed for the purpose of going around the country and identify the problems of child labour. Stating this at a workshop …
Scientists in Wisconsin have mixed ear of pig and egg of cow and a series of other cross species combination into clone living embryos of pigs, rats, sheep and monkeys. The series of experiments, being described at a meeting in Boston, represents a new and surprising twist on the cloning …
Stone tools dating back 80,000 years have been discovered at a site in Mansar, where excavations are on to unearth a stupa and a temple complex by the Bodhisatva Nagarjun Memorial Sanstha and Research Centre. The tools, which are 30,000 to 80,000 years old, were discovered at the main excavation …
The Government of India along with the United Nations system will be soon launching a $20 millions project called "Community Based Primary Education Programme."
British archeologists have been called in to help manage and protect two World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh - a Buddhist complex at Paharpur and the 15th century Islamic city of Baerhat - which are under threat from waterlogging, salination and forest encroachment.
The Canadian government has apologized to the Indian, Inuit and other aboriginal peoples of Canada for decades of mistreatment, offering an emotional atonement for policies that sought to stamp out native culture and confined Indian children in often abusive government run schools.
At the risk of sounding anti-national, when one reads in The Indian Express of a two tonne slab falling off an architectural marvel like the Sun Temple of Konark, one wishes the Raj had never ended. Set up in 1876 by Alexander Cunningham, the fate of the well-conceived Archaeological Survey …
More evidence that life can exist under the harshest, most extreme conditions deep inside the earth suggests the expeditions on Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa could find teeming colonies of underground microbes, scientists said.
Coinciding with the golden jubilee year of independence, the Orissa government has launched a project to restore about 400 ancient monuments presently lying in ruins in different parts of the state.
A 2,500-year-old archaeological site belonging to the Megalithic or the Iron Age is claimed to have been recently discovered by Mr Mysooru Nagarak Sharma in village Boochalli of Dodda Belavangala Hobli of Bangalore rural district.
alcoholism in Russia is rising at an unparalleled rate. The average life expectancy for Russian men fell by 6.2 years and for women by 3.4 years between 1990 and 1994. A major reason for that was a high consumption of alcohol. According to David Leon of the London School of …
dog owners in Taipei will now have to implant microchips in their dogs to help tackle the plague of strays in the city. The city administration has passed a new law that dog owners must put microchips in their dogs as soon as they are three months old. The microchips …
betel chewing is a national pastime in Taiwan. But now Taiwanese officials have decided to destroy the plantations that are growing on government-protected land, shut down the roadside stalls and impose a sin tax on betel nut vendors. While the official campaign against the betel nut chewing may be something …
THOUGH floods cannot be wished away, they could soon be whisked away. A group of British computer experts is trying to model river flows so as to predict the best way to control flooding (New Scientist, Vol 141, No 1907). When a river spills over its sides, some of the …
An innovative programme has given the hearing impaired greater access to the historical and cultural wealth of Havana. A sign language interpreter would accompany tourists to Old Havana, the historic part of the Cuban capital, if the group included hearing impaired. The programme, Cultura entre las Manos, was started in …
Naina Kidwai, India chairperson of HSBC has edited a book containing 30 essays by women who lead large organisations in India. In this special episode of Nothing But the Truth, Karan Thapar discusses how difficult it is for women to rise to the top. http://indiatoday.intoday.in/programme/naina-kidwai-book-successful-women-india-nothing-but-the-truth-karan-thapar/1/438507.html
Nepal Research and Education Network (NREN) is a non-profit organization registered under Nepal Government and affiliated with Social Welfare Council. This is a consortium in the country active to build national research and education network. It facilitates dedicated advanced research and education network for the research and education communities of …
