New study highlights how Indian children are outperforming the world Screen time guidecan have lasting effects on health and cognitive abilitiesMultiple screens have become an integral part of children’s lives. But is it safe for young teens to spend so much time on screens? Existing findings suggest that while devices such as smartphones, laptops, tablets … Read more
The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a landmark ruling that revisited one of medicine’s most difficult ethical issues, allowing the withdrawal of artificial life support, commonly known as passive euthanasia, from a 31-year-old man who had been comatose for more than 13 years. The judgment in the Harish Rana case marks the first time that … Read more
New Delhi: India has co-sponsored a resolution in the United Nations Security Council condemning Iran’s “shocking” attacks on GCC countries and Jordan and demanding an immediate halt to all attacks by Tehran while denouncing its threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.The 15-nation Security Council, chaired by the United States, passed the resolution on Wednesday … Read more
New Delhi: A day after a no-confidence vote against him was rejected, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla resumed his duties and asserted that he will abide by the rules and not allow any member, including the opposition leader, to receive special treatment.“Some members feel that it is their prerogative that the Leader of the Opposition … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Center on Thursday justified excluding transgender people, men who have sex with men and female sex workers from the list of potential blood donors, saying the decision was not discriminatory but based on health studies that found HIV incidence rates among these groups to be six to 13 times higher.Additional Solicitor General … Read more
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed a riot after Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at the petroleum and natural gas minister during his speech on the energy crisis. Hardeep Puri His name allegedly appeared in a US sex offender file. He also attacked the government for exempting India from buying crude oil from … Read more
New Delhi: In an unusual development, TMC MPs have sought a meeting with President Droupadi Murmu to apprise her of the welfare initiatives taken by the Bengal government. However, according to sources, the Rashtrapati Bhavan rejected their request citing “insufficient time”.Prior to this, Murmu triggered a political row during his visit to Bangladesh on March … Read more
NEW DELHI: Amid concerns over the impact of the Iran war on India’s energy supplies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said his government is leaving no stone unturned to minimize its impact on citizens and accused the opposition parties of fear-mongering to push their agenda at the expense of the country.He said that no … Read more
Time is a fourth dimension in addition to the length, width, and height of our world’s usual spatial perceptions, although most people may not realize its ubiquity. It makes our square existence transcend the monotonous two-dimensional plane, and even transcend the three-dimensional sense of the cube, and achieve the refractive multi-facetedness of the hypercube and … Read more
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that the income of parents cannot be the only criterion for excluding candidates from the OBC quota on the grounds of “creamy layer” and stressed that the employment status and category of the parents must be taken into consideration with the income/wealth test as an additional criterion for … Read more