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Wood ducks are one of the most well-recognised and celebrated species of waterfowl in the U.S. Once threatened with extinction, they are now abundant in the country thanks to concerted conservation efforts over the years. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3po6Ekp

Wood ducks are one of the most well-recognised and celebrated species of waterfowl in the U.S. Once threatened with extinction, they are now abundant in the country thanks to concerted conservation efforts over the years. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/2K7jKTj

The Modi government’s plan to introduce the Government Owned Corporate Operated model for the maintenance, repair and overhaul of battle tanks and other such Class A vehicles of the Indian Army at Army Base Workshops is seen as an act of misplaced adventurism. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/35p5zBb

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna jointly win this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a simple but effective method to edit the DNA of any organism, including humans. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3eLFLSJ

With the IMF predicting that 60 per cent of the growth in the global economy next year will take place in China, it would be better for the U.S. to mend fences with that country. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/38zFuB4

The unearthing of a cash-for-jobs scam in police appointments in Assam involving a BJP leader and department officials exposes the ground reality of rampant government-level corruption in the State. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/32phgpv

Humble though its beginnings were, the UAPA has now grown into a poisonous tree and is clearly modelled on the United States’ McCarthyite Un-American Activities Act. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/2U81Bqc

Farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh use unconventional methods to protest against the Centre’s farm laws. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3k8ghjq

GJM leader Bimal Gurung’s return to West Bengal and declaration of support for Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress changes the political dynamics of the Darjeeling hills, but it has not gone down well with a large section of the people. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3k8vcKG

Interview with the historian and author Suchetana Chattopadhyay. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/32kuGTt

The sealing of the Kashmir Times office is the latest in the series of attacks on the 66-year-old English daily published from Kashmir for its bold and fearless stance. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3exClmx

Mainstream political leaders of Kashmir have formed the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration with the aim of engaging in a constitutional battle for the restoration of the rights the people of the former State held before August 5, 2019. The question is, will this new alliance be able to survive its many contradictions? from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/32ljqqi

The overwhelming victory of the Left in Bolivia’s presidential election is a setback for both the U.S. and the right-wing forces in Latin America which had staged a coup to oust it from power last year. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/38f7SIF

The recently concluded India-U.S. ministerial talks in New Delhi yielded as many as five bilateral agreements that may have the effect of compromising India’s strategic autonomy and making it a de facto military ally of the U.S. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/2U0hzSV

The NIA arrests Father Stan Swamy for alleged involvement in the Bhima Koregaon incident, but the actual reason for the state’s witch-hunt is his strident opposition to corporate exploitation of tribal areas. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3n61zLZ

Tamil Nadu’s political parties, which continue to resist NEET on the grounds that it strikes at the root of the State’s well-established success in achieving social justice in education and creating a sturdy public health system, have scored limited success by ensuring 7.5 per cent reservation for government school students in medical seats. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/38aPvEG

The results of the second national sero-survey and a mathematical model on the spread of COVID are at variance with each other. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3kVj7tx

Studies make a case for BCG to be a bridge vaccine until a COVID-specific vaccine is developed, but larger clinical trials are needed to study the impact of such a strategy on the morbidity and mortality caused by the virus. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3eqorCp

Interview with Sanjay Jaiswal, BJP’s Bihar president. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3jIdvkM

Nitish Kumar suffers from a crisis of credibility because of his flip-flops vis-a-vis the Bharatiya Janata Party and the apparent failure of his campaign theme contrasting his ‘good governance’ with Lalu Prasad’s ‘jungle raj’ to convince the electorate. from Frontline - Home https://ift.tt/3jIdxZW