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In an event today, Prof. K VijayRaghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, launched a national program to foster cross-disciplinary leadership in India. Named the EChO Network, it focuses on increasing research, knowledge, and awareness of Indian ecology and the environment. It is hoped that this program would develop a national network to catalyse a new generation of Indians who can solve real-world problems in medicine, agriculture, ecology, and technology.

கடந்த 2019 பிப்ரவரி மாதம், மேற்கு வங்கத்தின் ஜார்கிராம் மாவட்டத்திலுள்ள மூன்று கிராமங்களைச் சேர்ந்த எட்டு நபர்களை ஓநாய் ஒன்று தாக்கியதால், அப்பகுதி மக்கள் பீதி அடைந்தனர்.

Graphene, a sheet-like form of carbon, has been hailed as a wonder material owing to its many promising applications in electronics, drug delivery and more. In a recent study, a team of scientists from India and the USA, led by Prof Srinivasan Raghavan and Prof Rudra Pratap from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, has paved the way for new applications of graphene by intentionally varying the defects formed during its production.

दक्षिण भारत, जो अभी चिलचिलाती गर्मी से पीड़ित है और मानसून का इंतजार कर रहा है जिसे जून के महीने में कुछ राहत मिल सकती है, लेकिन ऐसा लगता है कि यह प्रतीक्षा अधिक लम्बी और असुखमय होगी। एक प्रेस विज्ञप्ति में, भारतीय मौसम विभाग (आईएमडी) ने घोषणा की है कि पूरे देश में, दक्षिण-पश्चिम मानसून वर्षा “सामान्य” रूप से होने की संभावना है। यह भविष्यवाणी करता है कि मात्रात्मक र

Delhi’s winter haze is infamous for disrupting the air, railway and road traffic. With visibility dropping to near zero on a few days, life-threatening accidents spike during this season. Animals, on the other hand, seem to have a trick up their sleeves—they use sounds or visual cues to help them ‘see’ through low-visibility conditions. But what about fish? Can they navigate through turbid waters? Indeed, says a study by researchers at two Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), Mohali and Kolkata. The researchers have shown, for the first time, how zebrafish find food in turbid waters.

In a study published in the journal The Lancet Oncology, the researchers collected and analyzed data from various published reports such as the Global WHO FCTC Implementation Progress Reports of 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, WHO reports on global tobacco epidemic 2013, 2015 and 2017, Global Tobacco Surveillance System Data and the WHO-NCI Monograph. They examined the prevalence, trends and policy progress in smokeless tobacco control on the lines of the WHO FCTC guidelines.

Pune researchers take a molecular modelling approach to identify drug targets for the deadly Nipah virus.

लोणार झील की मिट्टी के नमूनों का विश्लेषण बहिःपार्थिव चट्टानों की उपस्थिति की ओर इशारा करते हैं।

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder where the body does not produce or effectively use the hormone insulin, resulting in elevated levels of glucose in the blood. Monitoring the amount of blood glucose can aid effective diagnosis, treatment, and access to quality healthcare management to diabetic patients. One of the ways to monitor blood glucose is through commercially available biosensors. Although such a test can be done at home at any time, there is a growing need to have pain-free alternatives. Hence, researchers are exploring glucose biosensors that do not need so much blood and are reliable, accurate, biodegradable, biocompatible and user-friendly. In a recent study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers at the Indian Institutes of Technology Indore and Bombay, have developed one such sensor.