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While addressing a press conference at Congress House in Panaji, the Congress leader questioned the BJP asking why it took so long for BJP to implement the bill.“BJP had Women’s Reservation Bill in their manifesto in 2014. What stopped Narendra Modi from bringing this bill in the last nine and half years. They had the numbers, it was just the will which was missing,” she said.“For last many decades our commitment has been for the women empowerment. The Women’s Reservation bill is our brain child and we have tried to introduce it number of times. In 1989, it was opposed…

This will be the first time that the private bus stand policy will be implemented in the state.The department has already held deliberations with various stakeholders and sent it to the government for further action.State Transport Commissioner Chandra Bhushan Singh said: “Uttar Pradesh is going to have its first-ever comprehensive private bus stand policy to address pressing issues of inadequate facilities for passengers using private bus and auto stands and traffic congestion that the state’s bustling cities grapple with.“The proposed policy that aims to establish a robust framework for development, regulation and management of private bus and auto-tempo stands across…

This ascent is propelled by favourable regulatory developments, including pioneering clinical trial guidelines from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).These guidelines, crafted in response to promising psychedelic clinical results in mental health disorders, position psychedelics as beacons of hope in the field, revealed the report by GlobalData, a data and analytics company.Psychedelic drugs, known for their psychoactive properties, stimulate the formation of fresh neural pathways. By targeting serotonin 5-HT2A receptors, they inhibit the default mode network (DMN), responsible for mood and perception, thereby altering conventional thought patterns and potentially offering therapeutic advantages in mental health care.Promising psychedelics have grappled…

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), the share of the online channel grew by 25 per cent in 1H23 (year-over-year), reaching 39 per cent driven by online sales festivals.In 2022, 9.8 million units were shipped to India, with a 7 per cent (year-over-year) growth.“Due to decreasing prices, consumers are opting to buy an affordable smart TV instead of retrofitting non-smart TV with a streaming stick, which is losing popularity, its shipments declining by 85 per cent in 1H23,” said Upasana Joshi, Research Manager, Client Devices, IDC India.Screen sizes of 32-inch and 43-inch remain mainstream with 71 per cent of…

CM Siddaramaiah held a meeting of top police officers at his official residence ‘Cauvery’ here.Speaking to reporters later at Vidhana Soudha, he said that the BJP and JD(S) were doing politics over the Cauvery issue. “The opposition parties, which are demanding my resignation now, had not discussed it at the all-party meeting,” he stated.Reacting to the calls for Bengaluru Bandh on Tuesday and Karnataka bandh on Friday (September 29), CM Siddaramaiah said that there was provision for staging protests in democracy. “We will not make an attempt to scuttle that,” he said.”There is the Supreme Court order to release water…

Indore, Sep 25 (IANS) Australia’s fast-bowling all-rounder Sean Abbott admitted the bowling attack needs to get its execution better after suffering their fifth ODI loss on the trot via 99-run defeat to India by DLS method, here.Australia had elected to bowl first in the second ODI at Holkar Stadium, but conceded 399/5, with Abbott conceding 91 runs while Cameron Green gave away more than 100 runs. It continued a bad run for Australia, who conceded 416, 338 and 315 in their last three matches in South Africa.”It can still be improved a lot but our execution in bringing those stumps…

Washington, Sep 25 (IANS) After the successful retrieval of samples from asteroid Bennu, NASA now aims to transport the pristine 250 grams of rock and dust to its facility in Texas, from where it will be distributed to global scientists, on Monday.NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security – Regolith Explorer) on Sunday delivered on Earth a capsule of rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu in 2020.It landed at 10:55 a.m. EDT (8.25 p.m. IST) on Sunday, in a targeted area of the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range near Salt Lake City.“Congratulations…

Lucknow, Sep 25 (IANS) The King George’s Medical University (KGMU) and the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) in collaboration with the Central government, will soon launch a project to produce CAR-T cells that will help provide cancer patients world-class treatment. CAR-T cells, a form of cancer immunotherapy, use genetically altered T cells for targeted cancer treatment. This treatment is currently available in developed countries and the private sector in Mumbai and Bengaluru. KGMU Vice-Chancellor Prof Soniya Nityanand said that cancer in children should not cause undue concern due to its rapid spread as the survival rates are…

Lucknow, Sep 25 (IANS) The skin bank project at King George’s Medical University (KGMU) in Lucknow will become functional within the next two months.Prof Vijay Kumar, HoD, plastic surgery at the KGMU, where the skin bank is coming up, said, “The infrastructure is almost ready and we are working on a few more things such as a van to transport donated skin to the bank.”A skin bank is a place where skin from donors, mostly people who wish to donate organs after death, is harvested and preserved.The skin bank is a valuable resource in providing allograft skin as a cover…

Berlin, Sep 25 (IANS) A new report has revealed that Germany is witnessing an uptick in far-right extremism, which had led to the defacing and vandalisation of memorials dedicated to Holocaust victims.The report by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a centre-left research institute, has indicated that as many as one in every 12 Germans now subscribes to some form of extreme right ideology, reports Euronews.This is a serious increase compared to the much lower figures recorded in the biannual study, which has been running for two decades.One of the most striking changes in recent years is a detectable spread of extreme…