Kolkata: Health minister Sharadwat Mukherjee said demoting Riyal Das, daughter of orthopaedic surgeon S P Das, from an assistant professor’s post to a medical officer and shifting her from the special medical education department to general health services were the right decisions as she did not possess the qualifications.Riyal had been an assistant professor at…
The Mutha river near Rajaram Bridge after water release from the Khadakwasla dam Pune: Storage in the four dams of the Khadakwasla circle rose by 1 TMC overnight to reach 16.1 TMC on Thursday morning, as rainfall in their catchments dropped sharply. With inflows easing, release from the Khadakwasla dam into the Mutha river was…
Panaji: Chief minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday said the state govt has decided to provide fisheries cards to all the traditional fishermen giving them proper recognition. He said the govt would act against those selling fish without such a card.“We will not allow anyone to sell fish in the market without the fisheries card,” CM…
S&P Global Ratings said inadequate rainfall could reduce crop yields and directly affect farmers’ earnings (File photo) A weaker-than-normal southwest monsoon could pose risks to India’s rural economy by reducing farm incomes, increasing food inflation and slowing consumption demand in the coming months, according to a report by S&P Global Ratings.The rating agency said agriculture…
Team India (Pic cricket: BCCI) NEW DELHI: Congress MP and noted cricket enthusiast Shashi Tharoor delivered a scathing verdict on India’s latest T20I collapse after England sealed an emphatic 3-0 series victory, saying he was left “speechless” by yet another humiliating defeat.India’s nine-wicket loss in the fourth T20I at Bristol handed England an unassailable lead…
Rob Gronkowski describes what Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding was like.(Image Credit: Instagram) Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s July wedding has been grabbing all the headlines from the word go. Though the stars tried their best to keep their dream-like wedding a hush-hush affair, the guests in attendance have been spilling a few beans….
pc: University of California San Diego Robotic surgery has become a familiar part of modern healthcare, but the machines used in operating theatres are usually purpose-built systems designed for a narrow set of tasks. humanoid robots, despite rapid advances in recent years, have largely remained outside the surgical environment. That has now begun to change….
Every day, countless substances cling to surfaces around us without becoming part of the material itself. This fascinating process is known as adsorption, and the verb that describes it is adsorb. Although it is often confused with absorption, the two processes are fundamentally different. While absorption involves a substance being taken into the interior of…
While sleeping mid-air sounds unbelievable, it is a special adaptation among birds. As reported in a study published in Nature Communications by the scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, certain species of birds can fall asleep in-flight using unihemispheric slow-wave sleep when one hemisphere of the brain is resting, and the other…
Nissan has announced the claimed fuel-efficiency figures of the newly launched Tekton SUV ahead of customer deliveries, which are scheduled to begin on July 20. The midsize SUV, priced between Rs 10.49 lakh and Rs 18.59 lakh, ex-showroom, is available with two turbo-petrol engine options and three powertrain combinations.The most fuel-efficient version of the Tekton…
