US deputy NSA Daleep Singh warned of consequences for any country that seeks to circumvent sanctions aimed at Russia, but also said on Thursday that Washington had not set any red line for India, which seeks to buy Russian oil at a discount, and that its current energy import does ...
With the Delimitation Commission on the verge of completing its exercise in Jammu & Kashmir, the Centre is hoping assembly polls shall be conducted in the Union Territory along with Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh by the end of this year. Assembly polls in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh will be due ...
Mylab Discover Solutions has plans to foray into routine lab testing equipment and reagent business. It will include devices and kits for three major sub-segments of the market – immunology, biochemistry and haematology. This will nearly complete the company’s portfolio for diagnostics laboratories, which until now included molecular (RT-PCR) test ...
The government’s decision to exempt certain types of genome-edited crops from the stringent biosafety regulations applicable to genetically-modified (GM) crops is expected to lead to wider use of this technology and accelerate genetic improvement of crops in the country. The ministry of environment and forest, in a notification on Wednesday, exempted ...
In a landmark decision, the Centre on Thursday decided to take out several areas of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland from the purview of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) that is often blamed for excesses against the people of northeast in view of unfettered powers of search and arrest ...
Most parts of north and central India, already reeling under high heat for several weeks, can expect a dry and scorching month of April, the India Meteorological Department has warned in its outlook for the month. While the intensity of the current heatwave may reduce over north India, including Delhi-NCR, ...