The CBI coordinates between various Indian law enforcement agencies and their counterparts in other countries to help solve such transnational crimes besides cases of economic offences and drug/human trafficking. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in coordination with domestic and international law enforcement agencies, will this year further intensify action
We say hard workers are “busy as a bee,” but in a recent study, honey bees seemed more like employees in an office building. Entomologists and engineers in the U.S. glued tiny QR codes to the backs of tens of thousands of honey bees in rural areas of Pennsylvania and New York. The unprecedented application
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What’s old is new again. About five years into my tech reviewing journey, gaming tablets became a thing for about a year. Then they fizzled out faster than a cheap July 4th sparkler. But they’re back again, and if the RedMagic Nova Gaming Tablet is any indication, they’re better than ever. The 10.9-inch slate ($500
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Rubbish roads: Nepal explores paving with plastic By Paavan MATHEMA Pokhara, Nepal (AFP) Jan 25, 2025 Cars speeding along a smooth, black-coloured street in Nepal’s Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic, transformed into an ingredient in road construction. Nepal’s urban areas generate about 5,000 tonnes of solid waste per day,
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The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, according to an assessment released Saturday that points the finger at China even while acknowledging that the spy agency has “low confidence” in its own conclusion. The finding is not the result of any new intelligence, and the
Dinosaurs long dominated the earth’s land ecosystems with multiple forms, including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus, and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, with its Wolverine-like claws. But the origin of dinosaurs — precisely when and where they first appeared — remains a bit of a puzzle. Researchers are now proposing a surprising location for
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Demonstrators hold a placard that reads “Trump Climate Disaster” during a protest against the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. President. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: Among the first executive orders that Donald Trump signed after taking over as President on January 20 was to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement
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In 1941, faced with imminent threats from hostile Axis powers, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt initiated a secret assignment known as the Manhattan Project. That monumental research and development initiative culminated in the creation of the first atomic bomb. Seven decades later, Donald Trump, the 47th President of the U.S., faces a powerful adversary in
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In January 2015, the Île-de-France region suffered three shooting incidents perpetrated by terrorists. Twenty people were killed, including three assailants. On November 12 the same year, suicide bombers attacked a suburb of Beirut in Lebanon, killing 43 people. The next day, terrorists struck in three places in Paris, killing 130 people in all. France promptly
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That targeted nutritional support to TB patients and household contacts can improve TB treatment outcomes, reduce the number of new cases and deaths is now well known, particularly after the RATIONS trial carried out in between August 2019 and August 2022 in four districts of Jharkhand among 2,800 pulmonary TB patients and 10,345 household contacts. The trial
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