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In an incremental step towards operationalising the Indo-US nuclear deal, US National Security Advisor that Washington is finalizing steps to remove longstanding regulations that have prevented civil nuclear cooperation between India's leading nuclear entities and US companies. This includes removing Indian government entities from the US entity list, The Indian Express has learnt. Sources said these could include: Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC); Indira Gandhi Atomic Research Centre (IGCAR) and Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) - all government-run institutions. The US Entity List is a list of foreign individuals, businesses, and organizations that are subject to export restrictions and licensing requirements for certain goods and technologies.
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In a Major overhaul of the process of appointment of leaders in higher education, the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued new rules which effectively give Governors in states broader powers in appointing Vice-Chancellors and opened the position to industry experts and public sector veterans, thus breaking from the tradition selecting only academicians. If approved as is, the new regulations will give Chancellors greater control over Vice-Chancellor selection. The new draft regulations titled 'University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2025' - have also removed the cap on contract teacher appointments.
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In a milestone for ISRO, the cowpea seedlings it sent to space as part of a biological experiment have sprouted their first leaves, the space agency said. The experiment, ISRO's first biological experiment in space, was part of CROPS (Compact Research Module for Orbital Plant Studies), an automated platform designed to cultivate and sustain plant life in microgravity environment of space. Developed by the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, it involves growing eight cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) seeds within a controlled environment equipped with active thermal management onboard ISRO'S POEM-4 module.
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The Increasing Representation of women in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) marks a pivotal moment in the journey toward greater inclusivity and I gender equity in India's premier institutions of higher education. It is also welcome affirmation of the larger and irreversible shift in society that top-down institutional reforms can help make deeper and wider. Data obtained by the Right to Information Act has revealed that six years since the implementation of a supernumerary quota of 20 per cent for women in undergraduate engineering programmes, in which extra seats were created instead of reserving them within the existing pool, IITs are witnessing a significant surge in female students. At IIT- Kanpur, the number of women rose from 908 in 2017 to 2,124 in 2024; IIT-Roorkee saw a 76.36 per cent jump between 2019-20 and 2024. IIIs in Chennai, Mumbai, Guwahati and Kharagpur, too, saw commensurate jumps in enrolment.
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The Gol does not even have the data on revenue collection for later years. Even optimistically, if the collections doubled over five years, it would not exceed Rs 2,000 crore. Short- termism of financially constrained states would make them reluctant to forego revenue and label such a nudge as an assault on the federal structure. To consider three nutritionally vital crops with the potential to double the yield and where India is excessively dependent on imports, we proposed to the FM that the government deploy Rs 1,000 crore per year on gram/chickpea in pulses and in oilseeds, soyabean (kharif) and on mustard (rabi) for eight years. That is the time to achieve a research breakthrough. India cannot continue to invest as it has been doing and expect sharp improvements in agriculture productivity. Nearly 45 per cent of Indian farmers grow only field crops (no horticulture or animal husbandry) and over a decade, have witnessed near zero or negative growth rates in value of output.
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The Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) has called for restoration of the long-term indexation benefit for debt schemes of mutual funds which was withdrawn in the Budget 2024. In its proposals for Union Budget 2025-26, the mutual fund body has also requested the government to restore earlier tax rates on capital gains, amend definition of equity oriented funds, allowing mutual funds to launch pension-oriented MF schemes with uniform tax treatment as National Pension Scheme (NPS) and a uniform rate for deduction of surcharge on TDS (tax deducted at source) in respect of NRIs (non-resident Indians).
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The Residents of Taranagar village in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district witnessed an unusual phenomenon last month-large amounts of water began to gush out of the ground. The flow began and stopped without any external intervention in the night. Some on social media claimed the flow was from the underground Saraswati river, mentioned in ancient Vedic texts. Scientists have pointed to a geological event instead. According to the United States Geological Survey website, an artesian aquifer refers to water stored under pressure between layers of sediments and soil below the Earth's surface. It is also described as "confined" water because of the hardy materials that lie above and below the subterranean reservoir. Unlike water that is extracted through tube wells or wells, however, artesian water can spout on its own; the reservoir is also located deeper below the Earth's surface. The water is surrounded by poorly permeable rocks that result in high pressure. When a rupture (like through drilling) happens, the underground pressure forces the water upward. The word "artesian" is specifically used when water is "confined under pressure below layers of relatively impermeable rock". It comes from the town of Artois in France, the old Roman city of Artesium, where the best known flowing artesian wells were drilled in the Middle Ages, the USGS says on its website.
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has announced a $1 million prize for deciphering the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation, an enigma that endures more than a century after Sir John Marshall announced the discovery of the Bronze Age culture that thrived in valley of the Indus between 3300 and 1300 ВСЕ. Many archaeologists, epigraphists, linguists, historians, and scientists have made more than 100 documented attempts to decipher the writing system of the Harappans, without success. The Indus Civilisation, which reached its zenith between 2600 and 1900 BCE, sprawled over more than 800,000 sq km in what is today Pakistan and parts of northwestern India. It was the world's most sophisticated urban culture at the time, with an elaborate system of trade, taxation, and drainage. The plethora of inscriptions on seals and terracotta tablets found at Indus sites contain a variety of symbols - human and animal motifs, and what scholars have identified as parts of a forgotten script. Scholars have long attempted to find link- ages between the Indus script (and language) and Sanskrit. This is a part of the larger nationalist project to link the civilisation of the Indus Valley to that of the Vedic period, emphasising the indigeneity of India's people and culture.
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At least two cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) were detected during routine surveillance of respiratory infections by the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Union Health Ministry confirmed on Monday. This comes after reports of a surge in respiratory infections in China, attributed to HMPV among other pathogens. Unlike Sars-CoV-2 that caused the Covid- 19 pandemic, HMPV is not a new virus and was first identified in 2001. The virus is related to the avian metapneumovirus that leads to a variety of symptoms in different birds. In India, a multi-centre study on respiratory infections between 2016 and 2018, found HMPV in 3.4% of patient samples. For context, influenza was the most commonly detected virus, found in 15.4% of samples, according to the 2022 study headed by AIIMS Delhi, ICMR National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases in Kolkata, and Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar.
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