Month: August 2019

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Rajya Sabha Passes National Medical Commission Bill to Replace MCI

The bill also has a provision for making national...

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NGT Dismisses Plea for Reconstituting Panel on Subansiri Hydro Project

The tribunal did not find any material on record...

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Resident Doctors, Including in Emergency Department, Strike Against NMC Bill

"The provisions of the said bill are nothing short...

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Vadodara: Over 1,000 Evacuated as Flood-Like Situation Approaches the City

As per the figures provided by the state government,...

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Nuclear Goes Retro – With a Much Greener Outlook

M. Mitchell Waldrop, Knowable Magazine 01/08/2019

Returning to designs abandoned in the 1970s, start-ups are...

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New Tech Helps At-Risk Couples Ensure Their Kids Don’t Inherit Their Illnesses

Sudha Umashanker 01/08/2019

Thanks to technological advances, at-risk couples undergoing IVF can...

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In Major Success, LightSail 2 Uses the Winds of Sunlight to Fly Through Space

The Wire Staff 01/08/2019

The spacecraft – which is completely crowdfunded – has...