Svante Pääbo awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine

Sweden, 3/10: Scientist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”, the award-giving body said on Monday.     The prize, arguably among the most prestigious in the scientific world, is awarded by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute…

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Vedanta Aluminium Conducts Weeklong Campaign on Malaria, Dengue, and Diarrhoea Awareness in Jharsuguda

Jharsuguda, Odisha; 20 th August 2024: Vedanta Aluminium, India's largest producer of aluminium, recently concluded a weeklong health awareness campaign aimed at combating malaria, dengue, and diarrhoea (MDD) in Jharsuguda district. The campaign reached an impressive 3,500 individuals, including children, adults, and senior citizens, across 28 villages and 2 special schools in Jharsuguda. This effort…

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Increasing air pollution keeps Nepal’s health sector and people’s life expectancy at stake

Kathmandu: As the drone takes off, the skyline of Kathmandu is shrouded in a thick layer of polluted haze that has been lingering for weeks. Visibility has also dropped over the weeks, delaying the flights. On the ground, a layer of grey haze has continued to linger in the atmosphere, and its inhalation has continued to…

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BJP MP Inder Singh Parmar apologises after calling Raja Ram Mohan Roy a British Agent

Shajapur, 16/11: Madhya Pradesh Minister and BJP leader Inder Singh Parmar has triggered a row by calling social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy, an “agent of the British” who started a “vicious cycle of religious conversion”. After facing outrage for his comment, the state Higher Education Minister on Sunday issued an apology, claiming it was…

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C T Ravi out as BJP reshuffles team of central office-bearers

Bangalore, 29/7: BJP president J P Nadda reshuffled the party’s team of central office-bearers on Saturday. Senior leader from Karnataka, C T Ravi was dropped as the party’s National General Secretary. Nobody from Karnataka was included in the new team which was reconstituted ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha assembly elections.     As National…

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