'The Supreme Court is hearing petitions filed by Ashwin Upadhyay and others, seeking a life time ban on convicted persons from contesting elections.' Section 8(3) of the Representation of the Peopl Read More...

'Four months after scrapping the UGC-CARE (Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics) system of listing quality journals, the University Grants Commission (UGC) this week announced it would follow a Read More...

'The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has discovered a rare ring of light, known as an Einstein ring, around a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth.' The Read More...

'The ballot for this year’s United Kingdom-India Young Professionals Scheme (YPS) will open next week. ' The scheme offers both British and Indian nationals the opportunity to live, study, tr Read More...

'US President Donald Trump has authorised economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work on International Criminal Court investigations of US citizens or US allies such as Israel.' The mov Read More...

'The Supreme Court directed the Forest Department of Rajasthan to map on the ground and via satellite every ‘sacred grove’ in detail.' They were to be identified irrespective of their s Read More...

'India’s space agency reported the partial failure of its NVS-02 navigation satellite due to the non-firing of its engines in space.' This was the latest in a series of setbacks suffered by t Read More...

'The CBI recently arrested ten people, including members and chairperson of a National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) inspection team and office-bearers of Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Fou Read More...

'A newly discovered asteroid — called 2024 YR4 — has slightly more than 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials said recent Read More...

'ELS cotton refers to cotton fibers with a length exceeding 1 3/8 inches or 34.925 mm.'  This makes it significantly longer than regular cotton fibers.   ELS cotton is prized for its exc Read More...