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Two individuals were removed from the officiating pool after being questioned by an automated phone questionnaire, which has been dubbed a tool to put AIBA's "house in order".

The Ordovician mass extinction that occurred about 445 million years ago killed about 85% of all species.

Chennai rain: The showers on Saturday night and early morning on Sunday caused flooding in several neighbourhoods of the city, including T Nagar, Vyasarpadi, Adyar, Velachery, Royapettah and Mylapore.

Now that more people are heading out of their homes and back into crowds after many months of being cooped up because of the pandemic, the risks are rising again.

The gene is possibly just one factor that could have led to these outcomes, since socio-economic factors also partly explain why some communities were more severely impacted by the disease. 

The board will be using Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets for the first time in the Term-1 examinations to be held for Class XII, X students on Nov 16 and 17, respectively

The Senate passed the legislation on a 69-30 vote in August after rare bipartisan negotiations, and the House kept that compromise intact. Here’s a breakdown of the bill that Biden is expected to soon sign

Pfizer and Merck have developed experimental antiviral pills that have shown promising efficacy in trials of adults with Covid-19 who are at high risk of serious illness. Here is an explanation of the differences in

The revised AIS includes additional categories of information - on interest, dividend, securities transactions, mutual fund transactions, and remittances from abroad, along with information on many other transactions that are at present available with the

The Adi Shankara story is a remarkable saga of travel and adventure, philosophical inquiry, conflicts in faith, exegesis, establishment of lineage, organisation and mobilisation, etc.

According to a Nikkei report, Japan will lift the entry ban for business persons, students and technical trainees.

The UK is expected to trigger the article just after COP26, which is taking place in Glasgow right now. Some reports also suggest that the UK might act before COP26.

The Prime Minister enhanced India’s existing climate targets and announced a new one during his speech in Glasgow. None of these are beyond the country’s reach.

President Joe Biden described the rules issued Thursday as urgently needed to get more Americans inoculated.

With the international presence in the region waning, unresolved rivalries and opposing interests among the three ethnic groups have resurfaced.

The study suggests that a third vaccine dose is effective in reducing severe Covid-19-related outcomes compared to individuals who have received two vaccine doses at least 5 months ago, the Clalit Research Institute said in

The idea of centralised recruitment of judges has been debated in legal circles for decades, and remains contentious.

Karnataka bypolls: Although the BJP's campaign in Hanagal was unprecedented, BJP candidate Shivaraj Sajjanar could not win the seat on account of localised disconnect between the BJP, its candidate and the electorate.

Essentially, the study shows that the HPV vaccination in combination with cervical cancer screening reduces the cancer to a point where almost no one develops it.

An additional public prosecutor practising at the Gujarat High Court says that the state government often takes a compassionate view on applications for parole during festivals of Diwali, Rakshabandhan, etc. and the latest announcement is

An investigational drug against Covid-19; researchers have now developed a method to manufacture it faster

The leopard population of North India is at highest risk among four animal populations identified as being the most vulnerable to extinction in the next 50 years if observed roadkill levels persist.

The United States Department of Commerce has added Israeli spyware company NSO Group, the maker of Pegasus, to its Entity List. What does mean, and does it have implications for India?

WHO emergency use licence is an acknowledgement of Bharat Biotech's research credentials, and paves the way for Covaxin's deployment elsewhere. With demand set to grow, production too will need to rise.

The big problem with facial recognition is that as the technology gets faster and more accurate there are worries that it will be used for mass surveillance.