#health25 Kala-azar: India to seek WHO certification for eliminating disease

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#environment25 Rome Declaration on Water Scarcity in Agriculture

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#environment25 World Food Forum

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#science25 Brown dwarfs are neither a star nor a planet, but something in between. They could be considered wannabe stars that during their formative stages did not reach the mass necessary to ignite nuclear fusion at their core like a star. But they are more massive than the biggest planets.

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#history25 The inscription was written in Sanskrit and Nandinagari script. It was engraved in 1513 during the reign of King Krishandevaraya. The plates recorded the gift of a village Vasalabattaka, renamed Krishnarayapura, to several Brahmins by the king. The inscriptions also mention the boundaries of the donated village, which was under the control of the Raja of Chandragiri, currently located in Tirupati district in Andhra Pradesh.

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#global25 BRICS

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#global25 BRICS

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#science25 C. elegans

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#science25 C. elegans

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#global25 The EU’s Nature Restoration Law sets an important precedent for countries worldwide. Given the alarming levels of land degradation and biodiversity loss in India, such a law in India would not only help India restore its degraded ecosystems but also contribute to its socio-economic development and climate resilience. The clock is ticking, and the time to act is now.

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#global25 The country became the second country in the world, following Cabo Verde, to be officially declared malaria-free this year. It is also the fifth African nation to receive malaria-free certification from the WHO.

#global25 Hosting the BRICS summit: Why Kazan in Tatarstan matters in Putin’s Russia

Kazan is one of Russia's cities of the future — in the sense that it already anticipates some of the significant demographic changes that are contributing to the country's evolving national identity.

Source: The Indian Express

#polity25 Sixth Schedule

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#science25 The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), spearheaded by the WHO and UNICEF, stresses the importance of maintaining high levels of AFP surveillance and routine vaccination in all countries.

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#environment25 Tenkana

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#science25 How archaeologists unearthed ancient cities in Central Asia’s mountains

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#science25 The findings also complicate the prevailing image of the Silk Road, which facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas among people from China to Venice between the second century B.C. and the 15th century A.D.

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#initiatives25 The dry port in Bihta is being seen as the Bihar government's big initiative to boost exports. What goods does Bihar export, and why is the dry port important?

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#geography25 Weather forecasts at panchayat level: what will be known, and how it will help

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#geography25 Weather forecasts at panchayat level: what will be known, and how it will help

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#environment25 Why ‘protected’ areas are seeing faster biodiversity decline

The analysis was carried out by the Natural History Museum (NHM), based in London, and published on Monday.

Source: The Indian Express