'Few everyday technologies have had the kind of revolutionary impact that the Global Positioning System (GPS) has.' From civilians to the military, from precision scientific studies to urban planni Read More...
'The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), under the United Nations Environment Programme, met in Nairobi on November for its third round of negotiations to develop an international legally b Read More...
'The All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), New Delhi, recently announced its plans to open a Centre of Excellence for transgender healthcare in 2024.' Transgender people have been histori Read More...
'A groundbreaking report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), published recently, has laid bare the staggering hidden costs of our global agrifood systems, surpassing an a Read More...
'The Lok Sabha recently passed a Bill that seeks to regulate the legal profession by targeting “touts”.' The Advocates (Amendment) Act, 2023 provides that every High Court and District Read More...
'The United Arab Emirates, which is hosting the ongoing COP28 climate summit, announced that it would contribute $30 billion to a new fund aiming to divert private sector capital towards climate inves Read More...
'The Rajya Sabha recently passed the Post Office Bill to govern all services offered by post offices, such as saving accounts, benefit transfer by the government, and insurance schemes, replacing the Read More...
'India reported a total of over 1.7 lakh suicides in 2022, nearly one-third of whom were daily wage earners, agricultural labourers, and farmers, according to the National Crime Record Bureau’s Read More...
'Recently, the UK announced the completion of half a million whole-genome sequences, almost 0.7% of its population.' Asia, and India, are not far off vis-à-vis population-level sequencing ei Read More...
'Recently, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, examining the three new criminal law Bills set to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), and the India Read More...
