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New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Even as changing climate conditions are threatening pearl millet (bajra) production, a team of researchers has suggested a re-evaluation of how and where the millet is grown in India.Pearl millet is an essential cornerstone of India’s food security, and finds itself at a critical juncture. Amidst shifting weather patterns and evolving agricultural priorities, the new study urges a timely revision of the classification criteria governing pearl millet cultivation zones, originally established back in 1979.Currently, India’s zones are based on rainfall and soil type: A1 for arid regions in Rajasthan, A for semi-arid regions in North…

London, Sep 8 (IANS) The UK has announced it will review period and fertility apps over concerns of data security by women using the application.The review comes after a poll commissioned by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) revealed more than half of women (59 per cent) have transparency concerns over how their data was used when it comes to choosing an app.About 57 per cent said they are more worried about how secure the platforms are than cost (55 per cent) and ease of use (55 per cent).The poll showed a third of women have used apps to track periods…

Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President A. Revanth Reddy alleged that Ravinder’s suicide was a murder by the state government. He along with other Congress leaders met DGP Anjani Kumar on Friday and demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao be booked for murder.Revanth Reddy also demanded Rs 25 lakh compensation for the deceased home guard’s family and a government job for a family member. He said the government should also bear the expenses for the education of Ravinder’s children.Later, Revanth Reddy called on Ravinder’s family members. He said the government’s negligence was responsible for the death of the home…

Answering a question, on Congress leaders alleging that BJP is supporting Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi, Yatnal said that the Congress got the freedom fighters of the country “murdered”.“The death of Subhash Chandra Bose is still a question mark. The Congress leaders have concealed whether it was a murder or a flight accident. Many people maintain that Nehru (first PM late Jawahar Lal Nehru) had got Bose killed,” Yatnal said.He said that those who talk about Sanatana Dharma are affected by HIV AIDS and leprosy.“One of them asked when Sanatan Dharma took birth. The minister who asks such a question…

Guterres, who arrived earlier in the day in New Delhi to attend the G20 summit, while speaking on UN Security Council (UNSC) reforms, noted: “Some people think that if the world is multipolar, then peace will come by itself. It’s not true. Multipolarity requires strong and reformed multilateral institutions. But when one looks at the Security Council of the United Nations, they do not reflect today’s world. They reflect the world at the end of the Second World War.” He added that many things have changed and “So it is clear that if we want multilateral institutions to work properly,…

Their first test in this campaign will be against host China in the revised fixtures which has left Clifford Miranda, chief coach of the Indian U23 squad, getting ready for a tactical battle.The India U23 side has been hard at work ever since arriving at the Dalian Sports Centre four days ago, having adjusted to the revised fixtures. Having completed four training sessions in China, coach Miranda is looking eager to put on a show in the match against hosts China at the Dalian Suoyuwan Stadium, on Saturday.”Thankfully, because of the Maldives’ withdrawal, we got two extra days of training…

The central leadership of the BJP had announced that the saffron party will go faceless in the elections, following reports of factionalism within the state unit of the party.Now posters have been put up in the party office here with no faces but only the lotus symbol and catchy slogans on them, the main being ‘World’s Largest Political Party’.Narayan Panchariya, who has been assigned the role of Election Management Committee chairman, told IANS that BJP is proud to be the largest party in the world.”Earlier, this tag was with China (Communist Party of China), but things have changed now,” he…

PCOS is the most common hormone disorder in women, affecting 7-10 per cent of women of childbearing age. It can cause infertility and raises the risk of developing diabetes, obesity and other metabolic health problems.The keto diet is a high fat, low carbohydrate diet that has shown promising effects in women with PCOS. Research has found it may help women lose weight and maintain weight loss, improve their fertility, optimise their cholesterol levels and normalise their menstrual cycles.”We found an association between the ketogenic diet and an improvement in reproductive hormone levels, which influence fertility, in women with PCOS,” said…

There were long queues of vehicles on Noida-Kalindi Kunj road, Gurugram border, MG road, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Singhu borders.”I have been stuck for over 30 minutes here on Kanlindi Kunj road from Noida. I had to reach Sarita Vihar and I don’t know how much time it will take as traffic is moving at snail’s pace,” said Amit Shahni, whose office is in Noida’s Sector 62.”Today, I was expecting traffic to be less but it is unexpectedly more than other days,” said Neeraj, a commuter stuck on the Noida-Delhi border.From Thursday midnight, non-essential vehicles were directed to use the Eastern…

Biden, who reached Delhi on Friday, will highlight at his speeches that absence of the two “autocratic leaders” of two big countries, members of the G20 grouping, will only help to fractures coursing through the gathering of the world’s largest economies and its leaders, according to one of the observers.Leaders from 25 countries including UK premier Rishi Sunak, French President Emanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Australian Premier Anthony Albanese and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishidaare to be in attendance at the Delhi summit to work out a new world economic order based on a rule-based trading system that’s beneficial…