Government widens fight on anaemia, adds low birth weight babies NEW DELHI: Low birth weight babies up to six months of age will be brought under the Centre’s flagship anaemia control programme for the first time as govt overhauls its strategy to tackle one of India’s biggest public health challenges, widening the focus beyond iron…
The first thing you notice isn’t always the bird itself. It might be a soft melody drifting through a park at sunrise or a series of clear notes echoing across a forest. Before your eyes find the branch it’s sitting on, the song has already done its job. Birds sing for practical reasons. They’re attracting…
18-year-old Bianca Adler turns back 400m from Everest summit, returns a year later to make historyPhoto: Bianca Adler/ Instagram In the pre-dawn darkness of the world’s highest mountain, an 18-year-old from Melbourne stood on top of the world. Bianca Adler had just become the youngest Australian to summit Mount Everest, completing a feat that had…
NEW DELHI: Quad partners will work to mobilise $20 billion in govt and private sector support through new and existing efforts to strengthen critical minerals supply chains, including in mining, processing and recycling, according to a joint statement issued after the foreign ministers’ meeting.Looking to reduce reliance on China, which enjoys a near monopoly in…
New Zealand foreign minister and New Zealand first leader Winston Peters has accused the National Party-led government of ‘covertly’ introducing immigration changes that unfairly target Indian citizens under the proposed India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement (FTA), while the government has rejected the allegations as misinformation.In a series of posts on X and later during the…
Rajma already enjoys a healthy reputation. Packed with plant protein, iron and fibre, it is one of those comfort foods that nutritionists rarely ask you to give up. But here’s the interesting part: your everyday rajma can become even more filling and gut-friendly with a few simple additions. You do not need expensive superfoods or…
Jensen Huang, CEO, Nvidia. Jensen Huang has a problem with how the AI jobs debate is being conducted, and it starts with vocabulary. Speaking at Y Combinator’s Startup School, the Nvidia CEO said the people forecasting a white-collar bloodbath keep using two words interchangeably that mean very different things. A task is one thing you…
TVK chief Vijay (File photo) NEW DELHI: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay on Thursday unveiled the party’s manifesto for the Tamil Nadu assembly polls, a week before all 234 constituencies in the state are set to vote.The counting of votes will be held on May 4.The actor-politician, who launched TVK in February 2024, made…
Kylian Mbappé and xQc (Image Via Getty) Streamer xQc was briefly suspended from Twitch after showing a five-second clip of French football star Kylian Mbappé during a live stream. The clip came from France’s 2026 FIFA World Cup match against Iraq and led to a DMCA copyright strike reportedly filed by FIFA. According to xQc,…
Representative image (AP Photo) A historic heat wave sweeping across France has thrown this weekend’s Paris Diamond League meeting into uncertainty after police authorities requested the cancellation of the prestigious track and field event, citing mounting pressure on emergency services and worsening weather conditions.The Paris police prefecture announced on Friday that it had asked organisers…