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- Institute to tap gut microbes for drugs
- ‘Walls of heroes’ planned on campuses across country
- Modi expresses concern at Australia visa policy
- No invasion of body for UID: Centre
- New IT rules to beef up Aadhaar
- Start-up firms may get idle land from PSUs
- India to unveil new IIP series
- A festival of drums with a message
- Over 12,000 farmer suicides per year, Centre tells Supreme Court
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Institute to tap gut microbes for drugs
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Chandigarh IMTECH leans on growing interest in microbiome
‘Walls of heroes’ planned on campuses across country
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They will have portraits of all Param Vir Chakra awardees
Modi expresses concern at Australia visa policy
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Australia’s newly introduced visa restrictions are likely to impact India.
No invasion of body for UID: Centre
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Taking fingerprints and iris impressions for Aadhaar is not an invasion of a citizen’s body as the right of a person to his own body is not absolute, the government told the Supreme Court.
New IT rules to beef up Aadhaar
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To address privacy and security concerns over Aadhaar, the Union government is in the process of educating government agencies that sensitive data must not be made public.
Start-up firms may get idle land from PSUs
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It will ‘create a landscape for ready-to-move-in businesses’
India to unveil new IIP series
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India will unveil a new series of Index of Industrial Production with a base year 2011-12 on May 9 with an aim to map economic activities more accurately.
A festival of drums with a message
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600 exponents of instrumental music to highlight the Bharathapuzha’s distress
Over 12,000 farmer suicides per year, Centre tells Supreme Court
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The Centre informed the Supreme Court that despite a multi-pronged approach to improve income and social security of farmers, over 12,000 suicides were reported in the agricultural sector every year since 2013.
