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His Grandfather Predicted Greatness At Age Three. Madhurendra Kumar Just Proved Him Right
A grandfather's early prediction about a three-year-old in rural Bihar has played out: Madhurendra Kumar now holds 12…
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600 seats, six storeys: IIM Kozhikode’s Kochi expansion goes live in Kalamassery
IIM Kozhikode's new Kochi campus, with classrooms for more than 600 students, was inaugurated on Saturday at Kalamassery.
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21.5 million people, one shrinking river: what 200 years did to Delhi’s Yamuna
As Delhi's population grew from roughly 250,000 to 21.5 million, a new study finds the Yamuna's width and…
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Lucknow’s BBAU Just Posted Its Best Postgraduate Admission Numbers In 4 Years
Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow has recorded 18,589 postgraduate applications for 2,611 seats this year, its highest…
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3 tunnels, 28km underground: inside India’s 306km Chennai-Bengaluru bullet train
Pre-construction tenders for the Chennai-Bengaluru bullet train reveal a 306.2km route with three tunnels, including a nearly 15km…
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This flying ‘F-22 Raptor’ was built by children in Classes 4 to 8
A flying model of the F-22 Raptor stealth fighter, built from thermocol waste by students in Classes 4…
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India’s first under-river Metro is about to go driverless beneath the Hooghly
Kolkata's East-West Metro, which runs through twin tunnels under the Hooghly river, has been cleared by railway safety…
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This Indian scientist’s research gave the world its first childhood leukemia treatment
Yellapragada Subbarow's work on folic acid at Lederle Laboratories led to aminopterin, one of the earliest drugs shown…
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1,200 km, one WhatsApp call: how a decades-old debt finally got repaid
A Kerala man's 1,200-km journey to Telangana, aided by a WhatsApp video call, ended with a 31-year-old debt…
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98 Great Indian Bustard chicks bred in Rajasthan as conservation project enters rewilding stage
India's conservation programme for the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard is preparing to release captive-bred birds into the…