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Explained: How National Testing Agency functions

The National Testing Agency (NTA) is at the centre of controversy over alleged irregularities in competitive exams conducted by it. Amid the raging row over the recently conducted NEET-UG and......

'You are ruining an entire generation'

'We are calling companies to set up assembly plants for mobile phones while all the components are imported.''Only the last turn of the screwdriver is done here. And you call it self-reliance,......

Earth's near encounter with asteroid on Friday

An asteroid, about half the size of a football field, will pass in close proximity to Earth, closer than the orbits of some geosynchronous satellites, on Friday night. The asteroid called "2012......

PHOTOS: 34-km-wide asteroid flies past earth

Thirty four-km-wide Eros, the second largest near-earth asteroid, had a fly by of earth and can now be seen in the constellations Leo, Sextans and Hydra. Asteroid 433 Eros (1898 DQ), also known as......

India saw 23.5 lakh pollution deaths in 2019, highest in world

India saw over 23.5 lakh premature deaths due to pollution of all types -- including 16.7 lakh fatalities caused by air pollution -- in 2019, the highest among all countries globally, according to......

'Vested interests want private players in space'

'ISRO facilities are very expensive and any damage caused by these start-ups can create havoc to our space programme.' In a major policy decision, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday allowed the......

What the Sino-US climate deal means for India

While India will be pushed to keep a tight lid on its own carbon discharges, slow and low emission reduction by major polluters will cause an acceleration of climate change, says Rajni Bakshi. The......

Mumbai, Kolkata most vulnerable to climate change: Govt

India's populous coastal cities Mumbai and Kolkata are most vulnerable to loss of life and properties due to coastal flooding in the second half of the century, the government has said quoting a UN......

Rich should degrow so poor can prosper

Current forms of economic growth are widening disparities, leaving hundreds of millions of people to live in poverty, says Rajni Bakshi. In the first week of September 3000 people gathered......

COLUMN: Competitiveness in what?

If we are to maintain stable societies and productive lives, we can no longer sustain a widening budget gap between what nature is able to provide and how much our infrastructure, economies and......

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Explained: How National Testing Agency functions

'You are ruining an entire generation'

Earth's near encounter with asteroid on Friday

PHOTOS: 34-km-wide asteroid flies past earth

India saw 23.5 lakh pollution deaths in 2019, highest in world

'Vested interests want private players in space'

What the Sino-US climate deal means for India

Mumbai, Kolkata most vulnerable to climate change: Govt

Rich should degrow so poor can prosper

COLUMN: Competitiveness in what?

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