NO WORD ON INDIA BLOC INVITE, OWAISI TO START SOLO BIHAR CAMPAIGN
NEW DELHI: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi will start his Bihar election campaign with a three-day ‘Seemanchal Nyay Yatra’ from Tuesday, after getting no invite from the INDIA bloc. In the 2020 election, the AIMIM contested 25 seats and won five – Amour, Kochadaman, Baisi, Jokihat, and Bahadurganj. Owaisi will begin prepping for […]
CORN COULD REMOVE CARBON DIOXIDE FROM AIR
NEW DELHI: Filling abandoned oil and gas wells with bio-oil made from plant-based leftovers like corn stalks and forest debris could help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, returning carbon underground in deep shafts once used to extract it. The emerging practice, the focus of a recent study by an Iowa State University research team […]
RESEARCH: INFLAMATION PROTECT AGING BRAINS
NEW DELHI: A new study shows that STING, a molecule that some experimental drugs seek to block, may actually help protect the brain against Alzheimer’s-like decline. Inflammation in the brain is usually seen as harmful in the aging process—it’s thought to contribute to Alzheimer’s and dementia. But the new study in mice suggests that inflammation […]
MILLIONS HAVE DIABETES WITHOUT KNOWING
NEW DELHI: A sweeping global study reveals that nearly half of people with diabetes don’t even know they have it, with young adults being the most overlooked. While most diagnosed patients receive treatment, less than half achieve proper blood sugar control, leaving only about one in five with well-managed diabetes. A large portion of the […]
BLOCKED BLOOD FLOW MAKES CANCER GROW FASTER
NEW DELHI: When blood flow is cut off, the immune system shifts into an aged, cancer-tolerant state that doubles tumor growth in mice. This discovery may pave the way for new screening and therapies for patients with peripheral artery disease. Credit: Shutterstock Cutting off blood flow can prematurely age the bone marrow, weakening the immune […]
MUSLIM CAN’T HAVE MULTIPLE WIVES IF UNABLE TO MAINTAIN THEM: KERALA HIGH COURT
NEW DELHI: The Kerala High Court has observed that it cannot accept multiple marriages of a Muslim man when he has no capacity to maintain his wives, and one of them approaches the court claiming maintenance. The observation was made by Justice PV Kunhikrishnan when a 39-year-old Perinthalmanna native approached the court seeking a monthly […]
PM BLAMES CONG GOVTS FOR NOT NURTURING GROWTH
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing a large gathering in Gujarat’s Bhavnagar on Saturday, declared that India faces no major adversary on the global stage, identifying instead the country’s reliance on foreign countries as its greatest challenge. “There is no major enemy of ours in the world,” he told the crowd. “If we have […]
MAMATA GOVT STABS ITS INDUSTRY TO TRIGGER ANOTHER INDUSTRIAL FLIGHT
NEW DELHI: By scrapping three decades of industrial incentives with retrospective effect, West Bengal has upended trust, undermined its own economy, and signalled hostility to capital. The fallout risks another wave of industrial flight, leaving ordinary Bengalis to suffer. In a move that completely eludes all economic and financial understanding, the Government of West Bengal […]
KILLER BEES’ ARE BACK
NEW DELHI: Yes, killer bees are back. But you shouldn’t panic, says Lewis Bartlett. First spotted in the US in the mid-1980s, the so-called “killer bee” created mass panic as it spread across the South. But was that fear justified? Originally crossbred to improve honeybee health in Brazil, the bee instead became incredibly defensive and […]
HOW WILL SAUDI-PAK ACCORD IMPACT INDIA
NEW DELHI: The strategic agreement signed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohd Bin Salman with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during his state visit will impact India immensely, says an analysis in Swarajya magazine. It says the pact obliges each side to view an attack on one country as an attack on both. Official Saudi and […]
