As per the study of an international team of researchers, the steam and heat from volcanoes allowed species of plants and animals to survive past ice ages. About...
The scientists from the University of East Anglia, UK discovered traces of four new man-made gases in the atmosphere that are capable of destroying the ozone layer and...
The Center for the AIDS Program of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) discovered antibodies that are capable of neutralizing HIV strains. It is a remarkable discovery of potent...
An Indian American student Kush Sharma (13) won the epic spelling bee at the Central Library in Kansas City in Missouri and secured a berth in the Scripps...
Rabi crops are sown in winter and harvested in the spring. The term Rabi is derived from the Arabic word for “spring”. Wheat, Gram, Pea, Mustard, Linseed, Barley,...
Hazard analysis and critical control points or HACCP is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and biological, chemical, and physical hazards in production processes that can cause...
The Mad cow disease known technically as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease in cattle. This disease causes a spongy degeneration in the brain and...
1. The Hutti and Uti mines in India are famous for __? [A]Uranium [B]Gold [C]Bauxite [D]Coal Gold India has only three major working gold mines-Hutti and Uti (both...
As per the second update of the Annual Health Survey (AHS), all major health indicators in the country’s worst-performing States are showing a gradual improvement over the years...
Indian author Mr. Pankaj Mishra won the prestigious Donald Windham Campbell Literature prize 2014 in the non-fiction category. The awards are announced by The Beinecke Rare Book &...