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SERAMPORE MISSIONARY
The Baptist missionaries led by William Carey and his associates Joshua Marshman and William Ward credited with the introduction & spread of Christianity in the North India. William Carey arrived in India in 1793 and lived for six years in North Bengal before...
AGEING CRISIS OF AGRICULTURE SECTOR
Today, both middle-aged and young people are shunning agriculture. There might not be a next generation of farmers left in the country. In 2011, 70 per cent of Indian youths lived in rural areas where agriculture was still the main source of livelihood. According to...
UNITED STATES – UKRAINE DEAL
The US & Ukraine have signed a deal that will give Washington access to some of the war-torn country's natural resources. It sets up an investment fund that Ukraine hopes will cement US assistance as the country struggles to repel Russia three years after the...
AMENDMENTS TO INDO-MAURITIUS TAX TREATY
Foreign portfolio investor (FPI) money channeled through Mauritius has historically played a role in the Indian market, but recent amendments to the tax treaty raise questions about its future significance. Recently, India and Mauritius amended their tax treaty to...
INDIA’S FIRST WOLF SANCTUARY
Large carnivores worldwide are experiencing a significant decline, primarily due to habitat destruction and deliberate persecution by humans. Although extinction is primarily a demographic process, influenced by changes in mortality & fertility rates that lead to...
THE PAPACY OF A REFORMIST
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, became the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church in 2013. Known for his humility and progressive views, he focused on issues such as climate change, poverty, and interfaith dialogue. On April 21, 2025, the Vatican...
K2-18B : A LIVING PLANET
K2-18 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-type star. It takes 32.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.1429 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2015. A new investigation with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an...
OLO : A COLOUR NEVER SEEN BEFORE
A team of five scientists successfully perceived a colour never before seen by human eyes, after use of lasers and tracking technology to selectively activate certain cells in their retinas. The blue-greenish shade has an intensity , outside the natural range of...
GENOME INDIA PROJECT
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has created the national resource data of whole genome sequencing of 10,074 healthy individuals from 83 heterogeneous populations from 99 different sites under the Genome India project to create a library of genetic...
THE WALLACE LINE
The Wallace Line is an imaginary line that intersects the Lombok Strait between the Indonesian islands of Bali and Lombok to the south, and extends north through the Makassar Strait between Kalimantan (Borneo) and Sulawesi. Wallace’s Line is not a static boundary—it...