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From 6 P.M. today, Delhi University (DU) will begin accepting online registration for around 60 undergraduate courses, spread over 63 colleges in the capital. The total number of seats on offer this year are 56,000 and include an additional 2,000 seats that have been added on account of new courses being introduced. Last year, 2,50,000 students had applied for admissions. This year the number of applicants is expected to be higher. The criteria for selection [...]
In a first-of-its-kind surgery in India, a team of 12 specialist doctors of Galaxy Care Laparoscopy Institute (GCLI) in Pune successfully carried out India’s first Uterine transplant on a 22-year-old woman from Solapur district of Maharashtra. The donor of the uterus was the woman’s 40-year-old mother. At the time of writing this, both were doing fine and recovering. Globally, over 1.5 million suffer from absolute uterine infertility, a condition where the woman may have been [...]
The domestic nuclear manufacturing industry just got a major boost with the government announcing plans to indigenously design and build 10 Pressurized Heavy Water Rectors (PHWR) on a fast track mode. Coming at a time when the NDA government is completing its third year in office, Union Minister of Power Piyush Goyal made the dramatic announcement in a meeting with the press. The move is expected to give ‘Make in India’ initiative its biggest fillip [...]
On 16 May, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government completed three years in office. With just two more years left before the party returns to the people seeking re-election, it is a good time to take stock of what the government promised and how much has been fulfilled. Towards that end, an organization called LocalCircles organised a 3 year governance assessment poll conducted over a three week period and covering 40,000 respondents, who collectively sent in [...]
On 12 May 2017, the world woke up to a blank computer screen with a message confirming access to their computer files had been locked and that a $300 ransom payment, made in the form of the cryptocurrency – bitcoin, could get them to receive a patch that would unlock the files. If you didn’t pay, the data would be lost forever. The ransomware was “WannaCry” and it did make people want to cry, especially [...]
The forthcoming Presidential elections to elect India’s 14th President is expected to be a fierce contest between the ruling NDA and a fragmented opposition. There is a lot at stake as President Pranab Mukherjee retires on 25 July and the next President has to be elected before that date. Hectic political parleys are already underway with the Congress trying to come out of its political wilderness in trying to motivate a divided opposition to put [...]
In a landmark verdict, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded to the four accused who raped and brutalized Nirbhaya that fateful night of 16 December 2012. In doing so, the Supreme Court brought some sense of closure to her parents who have been patiently waiting to get justice for their daughter, who is no more. Announcing the verdict in front of a packed courtroom, the three-member apex bench comprising Justices Dipak Misra, R. [...]
Union Minister for Urban Development Venkaiah Naidu released the Swachh Survekshan 2017, an annual report that rates the cleanliness in municipalities of 500 cities and towns of India. The 2017 report ranks Indore (M.P) as No.1 cleanest city in India with Bhopal (M.P) at No.2. The ignominy of being ranked the dirtiest went to Gonda (U.P) with the next dirtiest going to Bhusawal (Maharashtra). Gujarat has the distinction of having 12 of its cities in [...]
