India and Maternal Mortality
Context: The country’s maternal mortality ratio had come down from 167 per 100,000 live births in 2011-13 to 130 in 2014-16. India has made sustained progress in reducing maternal mortality, it missed…
Context: The country’s maternal mortality ratio had come down from 167 per 100,000 live births in 2011-13 to 130 in 2014-16. India has made sustained progress in reducing maternal mortality, it missed…
Context: Both India and Pakistan were admitted to the grouping at its summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, last June. From then to now, world politics has undergone several tectonic shifts, old…
The majority of India’s political parties (2,044 out of 2,099) are unrecognised. An unrecognised party is either a newly registered one, or one that has not won enough votes in…
Context: Scientists seeking new ways to fight drug-resistant superbugs have mapped the genomes of more than 3,000 bacteria, including samples of a bug taken from Alexander Fleming’s nose and a…
Context: Silver nanoparticles embedded on clay have now been successfully dispersed inside plastic to create new antimicrobial films, filaments and can also be moulded into other plastic items. Silver nanoparticle-embedded…
Context: Self-propelling nanomotors, just 200 nanometre in size, could be used for wastewater management in chemical industries. Developed by researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, and…
It would take us 200,000 years to cross the disc of our galaxy if we could travel at the speed of light, say scientists who found that the disc of…
Context: Curiosity rover has detected a bonanza of organic compounds on the surface of Mars and seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane. The findings released, mark some of the strongest evidence…
First footprints? Published in Science Advances South China is now officially the place where an animal laid the first footprint. A new fossil containing track imprints, believed to have been…
Context: Scientists have found widespread uranium contamination in groundwater from aquifers across 16 states in India, much above the WHO provisional standard for the country. More about the Study: The…
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