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Newly discovered bacteria breaks down soil pollutants
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): Researchers have found a new species of soil bacteria that is particularly adept at breaking down organic matter, including the cancer-causing chemicals that are released when coal, gas, oil and waste products are burned.
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Mandya resident covers 61,000 km distance to collect soil from Pulwama mar
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 14 (ANI): Umesh Gopinath, a resident from Mandya, travelled 61,000 km to meet the families of 40 CRPF martyrs, who were killed in the Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir last year and collected the soil from their respective homes.
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Singer collects soil from 40 Pulwama bravehearts' houses to build memorial
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Pulwama (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Feb 14 (ANI): To honour the bravehearts who lost their lives in the Pulwama terror attack, Umesh Gopinath Jadhav, a Bengaluru-based singer, has travelled to the houses of each of the 40 CRPF personnel to collect the soil and use in the construction of the
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Hyderabad couple grows vegetables without using soil
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Feb 13 (ANI): A couple in Hyderabad has been growing vegetables using Hydroponics, a modern method of farming without using soil and pesticides.
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Efficacy of decision remains to be seen: Govt sources on Hafiz Saeed's con
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 13 (ANI): The efficacy of Pakistan's decision to convict Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed in terror financing cases "remains to be seen" and whether the country would take action against all other terrorist entities and individuals operating from its soil, governme
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Just a single grain of moon dust can help understand its soil chemistry
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 7 (ANI): Since NASA's last trip to the moon in 1972 there has not been another visit to the lunar surface and with no future visit planned yet, every bit of soil brought back by astronauts is exemplary and precious.
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BJP government has become tukde-tukde gang, is partitioning Indian soul: S
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 4 (ANI): Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday accused the BJP-led government of having become "a tukde-tukde gang", saying they are dividing the country into Hindu versus Muslims, traitor versus patriot, us versus them, and remarked that while the country saw p
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Get your resume ready: NASA looking for program director to lead its Mars
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 28 (ANI): NASA is currently on the hunt for a suitable candidate for heading its upcoming Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, which as the name suggests, would attempt to bring Martian rock, soil and air samples back to earth.
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Pakistan must take demonstrable steps against terror groups: Rajnath Singh
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan 28 (ANI): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said Pakistan must take demonstrable steps against terror groups, which are responsible for launching various attacks on India from its soil.
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Scientists unearth soil-dwelling microorganisms that resemble 'Pac-man'
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Panama City [Panama], Jan 25 (ANI): A group of scientists recently revealed in a study that the curious soil-dwelling microorganisms known as protists have an uncanny resemblance to the legendary 'Pac-man' arcade game character that gobbles up dots with its gaping mouth as it moves through a
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US announces new visa rules to restrict 'birth tourism'
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington DC [USA], Jan 24 (ANI): The United States announced on Thursday (local time) that it will no longer issue temporary visitor (B-1/B-2) visas to foreigners seeking to enter the country for what it called "birth tourism" -- a practice it described as aimed at securing permanent Ameri
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Iran threatens to attack Dubai, Haifa if country is bombed
Updated : 6 years, 2 months ago IST
Tehran [Iran], Jan 8 (ANI): Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has warned that it will launch attacks on cities of Dubai in the UAE and Haifa in Israel if the Iranian soil is bombed in the future.
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