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14,400 years ago, five people and a canid entered an Italian cave using pine twigs for lightScientists have uncovered how prehistoric humans explored deep caves nearly 14,400 years ago. A group of five people and their dog navigate...
Human evolution is still happening, and faster than we thoughtA groundbreaking study published in Nature reveals that human evolution has not slowed down but has accelerated, particularly since the adv...
Confidant Claude: Anthropic says 6% of users turn to its AI chatbot for personal adviceAI firm Anthropic studied user interactions with its chatbot Claude. About six percent of users sought personal guidance. Health, career, r...
India leads in workplace disengagement as ‘Quiet Quitting’ trend rises. Why are Indians mentally checking out at jobs?Employee engagement has declined globally for the second consecutive year, with South Asia, particularly India, experiencing the steepest d...
Publish monthly list of spurious drugs, DCGI tells state bodiesThe document states the draft regulatory guidelines for sampling of drugs, cosmetics and medical devices by drugs inspectors of central and...
No new Covid variants emerged during China's recent outbreak: Lancet studyChina is widely reported to have ended its zero-Covid strategy on December 7, 2022. Since the lifting of these strict Covid-19 control poli...
All sub-variants of Omicron detected in India, no rise in mortality: Health ministryAccording to the ministry, sequencing of about 324 Covid-19-positive samples revealed the presence of Omicron variants like BA.2 and its su...
New COVID norms for international passengers; check updated rules herePassengers arriving from China, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong will compulsorily undergo RT-PCR tests.
Int'l passengers subject to random COVID sampling can leave airport after giving samples: Ministry of Civil AviationThe ministry said the FAQs are being issued for better understanding of the passengers and to enable them for safe, secure and hassle-free ...
View: There are practical limitations in CMIE's CPHS sampling, but no biasCPHS is a household survey of a nationally representative sample in the sense that it is selected through a process of multistage stratific...
Double mutation found in 61% of 361 COVID-19 samples: Expert"I am told that out of 361 COVID-19 samples tested by the National Institute of Virology in Pune, 61 per cent had the double mutation. Howe...
IIT KGP devices AI-based system to inspect quality of MSME goodsThe portable device will click pictures of products when set up on a batch of goods and send the feed to the AI- based software for quality...
New sero-survey: One-fourth of samples to be taken from people in 50 and above age group"All districts are to ensure that out of total number of samples, 25 per cent are of those younger than 18 years of age, another 50 per cen...
Madhya Pradesh: Samples of 1,700 people taken for ICMR's COVID-19 surveyScientists expressed hope that the results of this survey will provide accurate information about the spread of the epidemic among the popu...
DGCA introduces tests to check pilots for psychoactive substancesCurrently, aviation staff have to go through breath-analyser (BA) checks that detects just the alcohol content in the body and not other dr...
GST: Centre, states to divide taxpayer baseThe division will also clearly fix the responsibility for raising awareness about GST, with bulk of small traders falling within the jurisd...
Just how good are our opinion polls?Even when polls report a sampling error between 3% and 5%, the error in seat forecasts is often as high as 200%.
CSIR to conduct tests on midday mealsCentre has engaged CSIR to randomly test samples of food served as part of scheme for quality, their protein and calorie content.
- No bird flu case in humans: Govt
The Centre has allayed fears of bird flu spreading to human beings in West Bengal, saying random testing of people in the affected areas ha...
- Easier food import norms to cut costs
The decision of the government to rationalise technical regulations on food items imported for export production or domestic consumption is...