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Scientists identify a possible source for Pluto's moon Charon's red cap
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 1 (ANI): Scientists combined data from NASA's New Horizons mission with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modelling to reveal the likely composition of the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and how it may have formed. This first-ever description of Charon's dyn
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Vabbing: Tik Tok trend about using vaginal fluid as a perfume
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): Vabbing, a combination of the words "vagina" and "dabbing", is used to describe the practice of using your own vaginal secretions as perfume. And surprisingly, it has caught a lot of eyeballs lately.
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Going nuts
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): Abdul Halim Sharar, in his classic work 'Last Phase of an Oriental Culture' has provided a vivid description of exotic dishes prepared by the bawarchi employed by Nawabs of Lucknow. He mentions a khichdi cooked with almonds slivers and bits of pistachio subs
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"Watershed moment for India": PM Modi on Droupadi Murmu assuming charge as
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday described Droupadi Murmu taking over as India's President as a "watershed moment" for the country, especially for the poor, marginalised and downtrodden.
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Iranian lawmaker says Biden's Mideast tour failed
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], July 24 (ANI/Xinhua): An Iranian lawmaker on Saturday described U.S. President Joe Biden's Middle East tour as a failed project that did not achieve anything for the United States, according to the official news agency IRNA.
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Imran Khan's election victory in Punjab province not a big shift: Former P
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): Former Pakistan envoy to the US, Husain Haqqani on Wednesday downplayed the importance of the recent bypoll win of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which is being described as a "game-changer" for the country's politics.
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Scientists find new technique to know what are we eating and its implicati
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
San Diego (California) [US] July 20 (ANI): Untargeted metabolomics is a novel technique described by an international team of scientists, lead by academics at the University of California, San Diego, for identifying the enormous number of chemicals obtained from food that were previously uni
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UN chief calls for action to honour Nelson Mandela's legacy
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New York City [US], July 19 (ANI/Xinhua): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday described Nelson Mandela as a "moral compass," calling for honouring the former South African president's legacy by taking action.
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Study: Novel coronavirus manipulates cells to replicate
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Sau Paulo [Brazil], July 19 (ANI): An article published in the journal 'Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology' describes a study conducted by researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the University of So Paulo (USP) in Brazil that demonstrates how a human prot
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Study finds rocking shadow effect in protoplanetary discs`
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 18 (ANI): The "rocking shadow" effect, described by astronomers from the University of Warwick, shows how discs in emerging planetary systems are oriented and how they travel around their host star. The outcome also provides hints as to how they might change over time.
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Overseas Pakistanis call Planning Minister Iqbal as 'Propaganda Minister'
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 18 (ANI): A Pakistani American has called Pakistan's Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal a "propaganda minister" and claimed that he was "talking to the wrong audience".
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IMF director describes Sri Lanka as 'warning sign' for countries with high
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Bali [Indonesia], July 17 (ANI): Highlighting the ongoing political turmoil in Sri Lanka, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Saturday warned countries with high debt levels to take lessons from Sri Lanka and said that it is a warning sign for nations with l
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