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Chennai: Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, fondly addressed as ‘MS’ by his friends and colleagues, made the stellar contribution of making the nation foodgrain surplus. In the process Swaminathan ended dependency on American wheat imports. Swaminathan is the father of India’s green revolution, the celebrated agronomist, who...

New York: Mutant wolves around Chernobyl, where the world’s worst nuclear accident took place 35 years ago, has now developed anti-cancer abilities, an advance that may open door for cure against the deadly disease, according to a study. In 1986, a nuclear reactor at the...

Subhankari Sudeshna Dash, not a stranger to failures, achieved a significant milestone by securing rank 2 in OPSC OCS 2020 examinations. In her own words, this success follows a series of setbacks, making it the second defining moment in her life. Civil services journey  ...

New Delhi: Son of a schoolteacher from Aligarh district in Uttar Pradesh, Vijay Shekhar Sharma was enamoured by Jack Ma-run Alibaba's focus on smartphones rather than desktop computers, when he built a digital payments company that would let Indians pay for vegetables, pay utility bills...

New Delhi: Even as cancer incidence is continuing to increase in India, experts on World Cancer Day Sunday suggested that if cancer is detected and diagnosed at an initial stage, then cure rate is very high. World Cancer Day is observed February 4 each year....

Melbourne: Last week, Elon Musk announced his brain-computer interface company, Neuralink, had implanted a device in a human for the first time. The company's PRIME study, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last year, is testing a brain implant for “people with paralysis...

New Delhi: Immunotherapy may be the most effective treatment for cervical cancer when used early in the course of the disease, according to a research paper. The paper, published in the journal Gynecologic Oncology, noted that despite the availability of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, cervical...

As examples of the conversion of verbal works of art into lines and paintings, the illustrated manuscripts of Odisha occupy a unique place. The history of such transformative representations of art in Odisha is yet to be traced in a coherent manner. These drawings engraved...

The two most crucial features for which Odisha is globally famous are Jagannath Dham and its tribals. While Lord Jagannath is deeply associated with Odisha’s emotions, its tribal sector runs along with nature and culture of the state. Barring costal pockets of the state, the...

Extinction is inevitable if the challenges of times are not effectively dealt with. This is the only reason why so many languages have disappeared from the face of the earth. It’s continuation that keeps a language alive. If that tradition of continuation is broken and...