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Nationwide Digital Life Certificate Campaign Launches Across 2000 Cities
The Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare is set to launch its fifth nationwide Digital Life Certificate (DLC) campaign from November 1 to November 30, 2026. This ambitious initiative will…
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India, Belgium, and Luxembourg Strengthen Economic Ties at Joint Commission
The 19th Session of the India–Belgium–Luxembourg Economic Union (BLEU) Joint Economic Commission (JEC) took place in Luxembourg on October 29, 2026. This significant meeting aimed to assess the current state…
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Indian Navy Concludes Successful Port Call in Sri Lanka
The First Training Squadron (1TS) of the Indian Navy, comprising INS Tir, INS Sujata, and ICGS Sarathi, has successfully wrapped up its port call in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on October…
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India Establishes National Board for Social Security of Gig Workers
In a significant advancement for India’s informal workforce, the Ministry of Labour & Employment has officially established the National Social Security Board for Unorganised Workers and Gig & Platform Workers.…
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Major Drug Lab Busted in Uttar Pradesh by DRI
In a significant operation against illicit drug production, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has uncovered a large clandestine drug manufacturing laboratory in a remote village in Jalaun district, Uttar…
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Government Hosts Shram Samvad for Labour Code Awareness in Kanpur
A pivotal capacity-building initiative titled “Shram Samvad” took place on October 28, 2026, at IIA Bhavan in Kanpur. Organized by the Ministry of Labour and Employment (MoLE) alongside the Labour…
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Ancient people relied on genetic variation already present in wild plants to domesticate crops like rice and corn
Oryza rufipogon is an ordinary-looking wild grass found today in parts of China, India and Southeast Asia. More than 8,000 years ago, people living in the Lower Yangtze Valley began…
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I teach doctors how to interpret test results – and the labels ‘normal’ and abnormal’ often hide what matters most
Mr. V felt tightness across his chest. His deepest breaths felt shallow. He sought help at an emergency department, where a resident physician found several worrying signs, including swelling of…
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‘Make this face look gay’: AI models alter faces to give people stereotypical ‘gay,’ ‘straight’ or ‘criminal’ features
Ask an artificial intelligence model whether a face looks gay or straight and it will refuse to answer. But ask it to alter a person’s photo to make them look…
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Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time is now over – here’s why
You’re probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during the leap year. Timekeepers added that extra leap day because Earth completes one orbit…
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IceCube is built on decades of research into tiny ‘ghost particles’ – but it was the first to find neutrinos coming from deep space
All visible matter in the universe – stars, planets, you, me – is made up of some combination of 12 fundamental particles. The lightest and most abundant of these are…
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Many drugs have mirror chemical structures, one helpful and the other harmful – a Nobel‑winning discovery allows chemists to make either on demand
The effects a drug or chemical compound have on the body depend on how its atoms are arranged in space. Some compounds have a dark twin with the same molecular…
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AI behaves more like a brain than a database – cognitive science’s role in its origin story helps explain why
When people think about what ChatGPT or other large language models are doing behind the scenes, it’s common to reach for the language of computing. You might assume there is…
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Your cells keep a record of every workout you’ve ever done – and those gains persist even after a break from exercise
Have you ever taken months off training – maybe due to an injury, a new baby or crushing work deadlines – and come back convinced you were starting from zero?…
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I’m a physicist who worked on the Nobel‑winning neutrino search – here’s how a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice became a telescope for ghost particles from space
Standing at the South Pole is the next-best thing to being on another planet. If you walk a few hundred yards away from the National Science Foundation’s research station, you…
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