Does India need to upgrade its biosecurity measures? | Explained

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar addresses a conference on ’50 Years of the Biological Weapons Convention: Strengthening Bio-security for the Global South’, in New Delhi on December 1. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: New age biotechnologies endow powers to understand biology better and, consequently, harness biological agents to target humans. Thus, biosecurity […]

Delhi Police Constable 2025 exam city slip released at ssc.gov.in, admit card expected today

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SSC releases Delhi Police Constable exam city intimation 2025, admit card due today Delhi Police Constable admit card 2025: The Staff Selection Commission has released the exam city intimation slip for the Constable (Executive) Male and Female in Delhi Police Examination, 2025 recruitment, informing candidates about their allotted examination city. The written test is scheduled […]

Why Joel Mokyr’s story of how science becomes technology is incomplete

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On December 8, economic historian Joel Mokyr delivered his lecture in Stockholm as part of the ceremony in which he received his share of the special Nobel Prize for economics, for “having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress”. His talk recapitulated his long-standing argument that a self-reinforcing relationship between science and technology […]

How is Asia-like artemisinin resistance emerging in Africa?

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In the late 1960s, at the height of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese government was facing a serious crisis. It was losing more soldiers to malaria than to the war itself. Chloroquine, the antimalarial drug used for decades, had lost its effectiveness because Plasmodium falciparum, the malaria parasite, had become resistant to it. Desperate for […]

GUJCET 2026 registration begins tomorrow: Check list of documents required to apply online

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GUJCET 2026 registration begins tomorrow The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) is set to open the registration window for the Gujarat Common Entrance Test (GUJCET) 2026 from tomorrow. GUJCET is a key state-level entrance examination conducted for admission to undergraduate engineering and pharmacy programmes in Gujarat. Candidates from the Class 12 science […]

H-1B visa fee hike: 20 states sue Trump administration over $100,000 fee, affecting tech, healthcare

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta announces the multi-state lawsuit challenging Trump administration’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, affecting tech and healthcare sectors. (Getty Images) Twenty states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa petitions, a move that has alarmed tech companies and healthcare employers. The lawsuit, announced […]