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Coronavirus | Vaccinated people may still transmit COVID-19, warns England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer

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News / The Hindu/ Health

Protection takes up to three weeks to kick in and we don’t yet know the impact of vaccines on transmission, says Professor Jonathan Van-Tam..

Punching in the data

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Business analyst Mohammed Alfan feels that the world underestimates the potential of Microsoft Excel, and is seeking to unleash it through YouTube videos and his book..

The Hindu Explains | How effective are the two COVID-19 vaccines rolled out in India, and are there concerns about safety?

19 hours ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

What should be done in case of side effects? Why is an effective and safe vaccine important?..

Coronavirus | CoWIN glitches also responsible for low vaccine uptake

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Registration of health-care workers on CoWIN is incomplete, many practising alternative medicine are not included..

Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava is joint winner of maths prize

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Indian mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, has been named winner of the prestigious 2021 Michael and Sheila Held Prize along with two others for solving..

Two new species of ants discovered from Kerala and Tamil Nadu

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Two new species of a rare ant genus have been discovered in Kerala and Tamil Nadu by a team of scientists, the Department of Science and Technology s..

Helmets to predict Alzheimer’s, a stress-canceller, an app to track seizures : Health tech at CES 2021

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News / The Hindu/ Health

Wellbeing was disrupted for the better at the virtual Consumer Electronics Show 2021, which ultimately saw a brave new world of health tech. Plus, a few wise words from expert speakers...

German scientists make paralysed mice walk again

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News / The Hindu/ Science

The treatment involves injecting carriers of genetic information into the brain to produce a protein, called hyper-interleukin-6..

Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 review: For your basic binge

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Ideal for the budget-conscious, the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 passes the basic tablet metrics thanks to a clear display and a booming battery..

Bangladesh zoo seeks mate for lonely Kanchi the Rhino

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News / The Hindu/ Environment

Abdul Latif, curator of the zoo, said the coronavirus pandemic had blocked recent efforts to bring in a male rhino from Africa..

A passion for farmer-friendly innovations

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News / The Hindu/ Agriculture

Arecanut plucker devised by Prakasan Thattari wins him govt.’s Innovator Award..

Odisha BJP issues ultimatum for paddy procurement

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News / The Hindu/ Agriculture

Party says it would hit the street if paddy procurement was not streamlined in the next 72 hours..

Apple MacBook Air M1 users complain of screensaver bug

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

One user complained of not being able to fix the issue even after setting the screensaver option to none or reinstalling the OS...

Green Humour by Rohan Chakravarty

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Go to web page....

CBI books Cambridge Analytica and GSRL for illegal data harvesting of FB users

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Cambridge Analytica replied that they had received data from GSRL pertaining to US citizens only. It did not respond to MeitY's further correspondences...

Google says it will shut search engine in Australia if forced to pay for news

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Australia is on course to pass laws that would make the Big Tech giants negotiate payments with local publishers and broadcasters for content...

MIT develops concept for airplanes to combat air pollution

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

The noxious chemical waste from airplanes’ exhaust kills 16,000 people every year globally, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research note...

Coronavirus | Health Minister assures people on safety, efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The Minister urged everyone to counter the “vested campaigns of untruth and misinformation”...

CRED’s Kunal Shah invests in OnePlus co-founder’s new venture

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Pei’s London-based venture has already raised $7 million in the seed financing round from friends, family, and private investors...

India parliament panel to question Facebook on WhatsApp's privacy terms

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The panel will ask why Facebook needed to change WhatsApp's privacy policy and how it will impact users, the source said. With 400 million users, India is WhatsApp's biggest market...

Western monarch butterfly population moves closer to extinction

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Environment

Scientists say the butterflies are at critically low levels because of destruction to their milkweed habitat along their migratory route as housing expands into their territory and use of pesticides and herbicides increases..

Google asks U.S. judge to move states’ antitrust lawsuit to California

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

In December, Texas and nine other states sued Google LLC in a U.S. court in Sherman, Texas, accusing the search engine company of working with Facebook Inc in a way that violated antitrust law to boost its already-dominant online advertising business...

Joe Biden plans temporary halt of oil activity in Arctic refuge

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News / The Hindu/ Environment

The fight to open the coastal plain to drilling goes back decades, with the State’s Republican congressional delegation hailing the issuance of leases as “significant and meaningful for Alaska’s future.”..

Building an app for India means building one for the world, says Signal’s Brian Acton

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Co-founder of messaging app says its non-profit status protects it from ‘outside interests demanding rapid returns’ and it is ramping up infrastructure...

COVID-19 vaccination: 51 million given jabs worldwide

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Just 11 of the 61 nations who have started vaccinating account for 90% of the doses given..

Watch | Why are platypuses so weird?

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News / The Hindu/ Science

A video on platypuses, that belong to an ancient group of mammals called monotremes..

Trump pardons former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Levandowski transferred more than 14,000 Google files, including development schedules and product designs, to his personal laptop before he left, and while negotiating a new role with Uber...

Follow the howl

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News / The Hindu/ Environment

An online survey seeks to find out if the common jackal is disappearing from Kerala’s countryside..

BBC’s Elizabeth White talks about Emmy Award-winning series Frozen Planet

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The filmmaker talks about filming in frigid zones, climate change and more..

India asks WhatsApp to withdraw changes to privacy policy

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

(Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.)The Indian government has ask..

Covishield not to be taken by people severely allergic to any of its ingredients: Serum Institute

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News / The Hindu/ Health

The fact sheet for the vaccine recipient on the website of the vaccine major is to help the recipient understand the risks and benefits of the Covishield vaccine...

U.S. lawmakers aim to curtail face recognition even as the technology IDs Capitol attackers

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Senator Ed Markey said in a statement that the technology may not be worth the risks. Racial justice activists have warned that facial recognition can perpetuate discriminatory policing and constant tracking could become the norm...

Cancer Institute’s V. Shanta is no more

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The senior oncologist and chairperson of the Adyar Cancer Institute died early on Tuesday morning...

NGO helps tribal farmers get irrigation water

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News / The Hindu/ Agriculture

Pipes have been laid for a length of 2 km from water stream..

Dell pushes PC gaming boundaries with latest Alienware laptops

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The laptops will have the next-gen NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 GPUs, and a new Alienware Cryo-Tech cooling technology...

Chennai birders go on a guided walk around Pallikaranai marshland

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Birders young and old went on a guided walk around Pallikaranai marsh as part of Margazhi Bird Utsav 2021, documenting resident and migrant species..

Biden eyes ex-Obama staff to tackle Big Tech and other antitrust issues

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Hesse advised Amazon on its more than $13 billion acquisition of grocery chain Whole Foods, according to her bio on the website of New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where she is currently a partner...

Watch: Amazon's Self-driving Robotaxi

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

A video explaining Amazon;s self-driving electric Robotaxi...

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reaches space with key mid-air rocket launch

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News / The Hindu/ Science

Sunday’s test also thrusts Virgin Orbit into an increasingly competitive commercial space race, offering a unique “air-launch” method of sending satellites to orbit alongside rivals such as Rocket Lab and Firefly Aerospace..

Coronavirus | States fall short in meeting COVID-19 vaccination targets

6 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

‘Wait and watch’ attitude, vaccine hesitancy and technical glitches keep the numbers down...

India home to both species of red panda, says ZSI study

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News / The Hindu/ Environment

Siang river serves as boundary between the two phylogenetic species, it says..

Farmers to step up stir against dam construction

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News / The Hindu/ Agriculture

‘150 families facing eviction due to the project across Thondar rivulet’..

The Hindu Explains | What are trans fats, and why are they harmful?

7 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Health

Why did the FSSAI introduce new caps on trans fats? What more needs to be done for global elimination?..

Glucose addiction can foment tumours

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News / The Hindu/ Science

Study reveals genes’ roles in regulating glucose utilisation by breast cancer cells..

Samsung does an Apple, removes in-box chargers

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Samsung is also planning to expand its sale of ‘S-Pen’ across additional device categories in the future..

Tiny worms can make complex travel decisions when hitch-hiking: IISc study

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

This was one of the key findings by two researchers from the Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES) at the Indian Institute of Science who studied how microscopic worms called nematodes that live in fig trees hitch a ride on fig wasps so that they can move from one tree to another..

Amazon faces class-action lawsuit over eBook pricing

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The lawsuit comes a day after Connecticut said it was investigating Amazon for potential anti-competitive behavior in its business selling digital books...

Google Assistant’s ‘Guest Mode’ is a patchy incognito version for smart speakers, displays

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Once switched on, the mode will ensure interactions with the Assistant are not saved to the account...

Google muscles up with Fitbit deal amid antitrust concerns

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Thursday's completion of the acquisition comes 14 months after Google announced a deal that immediately raised alarms...

India fifth largest market; focussed on meeting language needs, enhancing ease of access: Wikipedia

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Wikipedia, which turns 20 on January 15 has over 55 million articles that can be accessed in more than 300 languages...

Samsung's Galaxy S21 premium smartphones to hit India later this month

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

South Korean tech giant Samsung said it will bring its new lineup of flagship Galaxy S21 smartphones to the Indian market by the end of the month wit..

Google removes some personal loan apps from Store, warns others

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Move follows reports over many such applications, who are not authorised lenders, targeting vulnerable borrowers to offer loans at very high interest rates and then using extreme measures for recovery of money...

Twitter CEO defends Trump ban, warns of dangerous precedent

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

According to Jack Dorsey, such bans point up Twitter’s “failure” to create an open and healthy space for what Mr. Dorsey calls the “global public conversation.”..

Samsung introduces its next-generation 5G-integrated mobile processor

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

On-device AI processing and support for advanced neural networks will enable more interactive and smart features and enhanced computer vision performance in imaging...

Amazon launches ‘Prime Video Mobile Edition’ in India starting ₹89

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

“Given high mobile broadband penetration in the country, the mobile phone has become one of the most widely used streaming devices,” Jay Marine, VP, Amazon Prime Video Worldwide, said...

General Motors unveils Cadillac flying car and shuttle concepts at CES

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

The single-passenger Cadillac - technically, a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone - will be able to travel from urban rooftop to urban rooftop at speeds up to 55 miles per hour...

YouTube suspends Trump’s channel after violating policy on inciting violence

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Online platforms and social media companies are distancing themselves from, and taking action against, those that encouraged or engaged in the violence in Washington D.C...

U.S. justices say women must obtain abortion pill in person during pandemic

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News / The Hindu/ Health

The pill need not be taken in the presence of medical professionals...

Ageing dams in India, U.S., other nations pose growing threat: UN report

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The analysis includes dam decommissioning or ageing case studies from the U.S., France, Canada, India, Japan, and Zambia and Zimbabwe..

COVID-19: India records 14,849 fresh cases, 155 more fatalities

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News / The Hindu/ Health

The death toll due to the viral disease has climbed to 1,53,339 with 155 more fatalities, the Ministry’s data updated at 8 a.m. showed..

The Hindu Explains | What are the implications of U.S. President Joe Biden rejoining the Paris climate agreement?

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

What areas will Mr. Biden focus on to cut emissions? What does his policy mean for other countries?..

More flash droughts in India by end of century

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Atmospheric anomalies, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions play a role..

Long road for Tesla in India with infrastructure, supply chain woes

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

It's also difficult to see how Tesla's sought-after and expensive autonomous driving features will work on India's congested roads...

Weekly Bytes | Microsoft’s ‘affordable’ Surface laptop, Chrome’s password protection, and more

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Here's our curated list of important tech news from this week in byte size...

Tombs containing children of Incan nobles discovered in Peru

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Tombs containing the remains of two children thought to have belonged to the Incan societal elite have been discovered by a group of experts in northe..

Developer complains to EU over Apple, Google app rules after COVID game rejected

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News / The Hindu/ Technology

Google and Apple rules say COVID-19 related apps must be government approved in order to avoid promoting conflicting or incorrect health advice...

Study shows COVID-19 triggers antibodies from previous coronavirus infections

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News / The Hindu/ Health

the differences in the pre-existing antibody response identified by this study may possibly explain some differences in how severely COVID-19 disease affects old versus young people...

Pfizer to supply 40 million COVID-19 shots for poor countries

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News / The Hindu/ Health

The deal is a boost to the global program known as COVAX, as wealthy nations have snapped up most of the millions of coming shots...

Assessment of crop damage in Ramanathapuram district under way

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News / The Hindu/ Agriculture

The district, which normally received 48.50 mm rainfall in January, had received 247.30 mm till January 20, said TN Agriculture Director V. Dakshinamo..

European regulators imposed EUR114 million in fines for GDPR violation

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

France, Germany and Austria topped total value of GDPR fines with over EUR51 million, EUR24.5 million and EUR18 million respectively...

Google and French publishers sign agreement over copyright

2 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Google has only signed individual agreements with a few publications so far, including national dailies Le Monde and Le Figaro...

Free parking is not your right

2 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Why we need to encourage paid car and bike slots in our cities..

Facebook's oversight board to decide if Trump should stay suspended

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News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The social media company blocked Trump's access to his Facebook and Instagram accounts following the storming of the U.S. Capitol by the former president's supporters earlier this month...

93 lakh more children likely to suffer from wasting between 2020-2022: Study

2 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Health

Inaction will exacerbate disparities for the next generation, it says..

Mediatek, Qualcomm separately launch chipsets to power 5G smartphones

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 will power a selection of flagship devices from key customers including Motorola, iQOO, OnePlus, OPPO, and Xiaomi..

South African coronavirus variant may escape antibodies, cause reinfection, say scientists

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Science

In the research, the scientists, including those from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, tested the neutralisation activity of plasma from patients who recovered from prior infection...

South Korea's LG considering all options for loss-making mobiles

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

LG was not even among the top seven in the third quarter of 2020 after losing ground to Chinese makers..

Google's advertising practices targeted by EU antitrust probe

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Alphabet-owned Google, the world's largest online search engine, has been hit with fines totalling 8.25 billion euros ($10 billion) in the last three years for blocking rivals in online shopping, Android smartphones and online advertising...

Biden calls for coders in a hidden message...

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

Hidden in the HTML code on www.whitehouse.gov was an invitation to join the U.S. Digital Service, a technology unit within the White House...

Kannur farmer, Alappuzha samiti win top agri honours

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Agriculture

State farm awards to be presented on February 14..

Twitter says it locked account of China's U.S. embassy over Xinjiang-related tweet

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

Twitter said the tweet has violated the firm’s policy against “dehumanisation”...

Cattle transport: Karnataka govt. gives undertaking to HC

3 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Agriculture

Says no action will be taken now..

Google’s rival search engine surpasses 100 mn daily searches

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

According to DuckDuckGo’s public traffic data, the company achieved the milestone on January 11 when it recorded 102,251,307 search queries...

Microsoft increases upload file size limit to 250 GB for Teams, OneDrive

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

The software giant says the enhancement will facilitate sharing of large files such as 4K or 8K video files, 3D models, CAD files, or data sets with co-workers, clients and peers...

Cruise, GM partner with Microsoft to ramp up self-driving vehicles

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

The new investment pushes Cruise to the forefront of companies developing self-driving vehicles and technology...

@POTUS resets as Twitter juggles presidential accounts

4 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Sci-Tech

Facebook, meanwhile, is sticking to its previous policy of “duplicating" all 11 million followers of the official White House Facebook and Instagram accounts to the new administration...

Number of people vaccinated against COVID-19 more than double number of active cases: Health Ministry

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Health

Daily new cases touched a new low on Jan. 19 with 10,064 daily new infections being added to the national tally after seven months..

How to Squat?

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Health

The exercise targets the quadriceps, hamstrings and the glute muscles and helps to strengthen the lower body..

An algorithm to fix legacy issue in a pandemic hit industry

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

To solve the booking issue, a team of researchers at the University of Trento, Italy, collaborated with an Italian start up to develop software inspired by the popular Tetris video game...

U.S. asks Australia to scrap proposed laws to make Facebook, Google pay for news

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Technology

Under the law, which has broad political support and is currently before a senate committee, Google and Facebook will be subject to mandatory price arbitration if a commercial agreement on payments to Australian media cannot be reached...

After 12 years, Vaigai dam touches maximum storage level

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Agriculture

PWD engineers have decided to release 2,139 cusecs..

Avian flu outbreak to hit Jan. poultry sales: Crisil

5 days ago

News / The Hindu/ Agriculture

‘Unlikely to dent profitability this fiscal’..