NASA has been tracking asteroid 465824 2010 FR, which is twice as big as the Pyramid of Giza and is expected to cross the Earth’s orbit on September 6. It is classified as a Near-Earth Object (NEO) and a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA). NEOs occasionally move close to the Earth as they orbit the Sun, …
Facing resurgent virus infections, France’s government is unveiling details of a 100 billion-euro ($118 billion) recovery plan aimed at creating jobs, saving struggling businesses and pulling the country out of its worst economic slump since World War II. The plan hopes to create 160,000 jobs next year and restore France’s economic growth levels of 2019 …
Early results from an experimental coronavirus vaccine show no major safety problems and suggest that it spurs the desired immune system responses, researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. The US government has awarded Novavax, a company based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USD 1.6 billion to help develop and make the vaccine, which is …
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A secular marriage law that makes accessible to all and sundry the personal details, including mobile phone numbers, of adults who want to enter wedlock has come under challenge in the Supreme Court. The Special Marriage Act is intended to help consenting adults, especially those who belong to different religions or castes, to marry. But …
Using mass spectrometer, researchers at the Delhi-based Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) and the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have been able To detect novel coronavirus with 95% sensitivity and 100% specificity with respect to RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction). Detection of the virus takes less than three minutes; time from …
Novichok, the nerve agent that Germany says was used to poison Alexei Navalny, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin who is in a coma in a Berlin hospital, was developed in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s. The name Novichok means “newcomer”. It is used for a family of highly toxic nerve …
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Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s twin children Isha and Akash, and edtech startup Byju’s founder Byju Raveendran are among the Indians who have debuted on Fortune’s ‘40 Under 40’ list of influential people around the globe. This year’s list includes 40 influential people under 40 years of age in five categories — finance, technology, healthcare, government and …
Recently Hollywood actor William Shatner took offence to being called ‘CIS’, short for ‘cisgendered’. Cisgender The term cisgendered is used to define people whose gender identity matches the identity assigned to them at birth. When a child is born, it is assigned a gender identity based on its physical characteristics. Many believe …
Recently a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court reopened the legal debate on sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for reservations, referring the issue to a larger Bench to decide. While this concerns SCs and STs, a Commission has been examining sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBC) for almost three years now. …