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India's Free HPV Vaccination Drive For Teen Girls Gains Momentum
Burhanpur (Madhya Pradesh), March 23 (IANS) The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination drive is picking up pace in Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur, with adolescent girls aged between 9 to 14 years receiving vaccines at schools and health centres as part o
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Blue Origin Halts New Shepard Space Tourism for at Least Two Years
Blue Origin has announced a temporary halt to flights of its New Shepard spacecraft, pausing its suborbital space tourism business for at least two years. The company says the decision will free resources to accelerate development of its Blue Moon lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis programme, including robotic tests and a planned crewed Moon landing...
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School-Based HPV Vaccination Programmes Reduce Risk Through Herd Immunity: Lancet Study
School-based immunisation against human papillomavirus (HPV) could also offer protection against the development of pre-cancerous cells in unvaccinated women through herd immunity.
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Elon Musk's X To Deploy AI To Write Community Notes, Speed Up Fact-Checking
Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network's fact-checking product and expand it to reach more people.
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Pandemic Set Human Development Back By 5 Years Globally: UN Report
A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them COVID-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.
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MHRD Invites Application For 2020 DUO-Belgium/Flanders Scholarship Programme
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has invited applications from Indian students for the 2020 DUO-Belgium/Flanders Scholarship Programme.
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New York To Allow Self-Driving Vehicle Testing: Governor
The race to develop self-driving technology remains undeterred by controversy caused by the combination of a few accidents, the idea of not having humans controlling vehicles physically, and new infrastructure needs.
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Chinese Government Scholarship 2017: Online Application Begins For Indian Nationals; Last Date April 1
Ministry of Human resource Development has notified the beginning of online application process for Indian Nationals for the award of Chinese Government Scholarship 2017 under India-China Cultural Exchange Program for the academic year 2017-18 for higher studies or research or specialized training in 16 different discipline of Language and Literatu...
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My Statement on Yale Misconstrued, Says Education Minister Smriti Irani
After stoking a fresh controversy over her educational qualifications, Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani today said her statement regarding her participation at Yale university's leadership program has been "misconstrued".
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UN Agency Rankings of Humanity's Progress
In its annual report on human development, the United Nations Development Program ranks 187 countries based on measures such as the health and longevity of their people, education and income, and personal security. Since 1990, those measures have been compiled into the agency's index of human development that is watched by governments around the wo...
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India's Free HPV Vaccination Drive For Teen Girls Gains Momentum
Burhanpur (Madhya Pradesh), March 23 (IANS) The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination drive is picking up pace in Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur, with adolescent girls aged between 9 to 14 years receiving vaccines at schools and health centres as part o
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Blue Origin Halts New Shepard Space Tourism for at Least Two Years
Blue Origin has announced a temporary halt to flights of its New Shepard spacecraft, pausing its suborbital space tourism business for at least two years. The company says the decision will free resources to accelerate development of its Blue Moon lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis programme, including robotic tests and a planned crewed Moon landing...
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School-Based HPV Vaccination Programmes Reduce Risk Through Herd Immunity: Lancet Study
School-based immunisation against human papillomavirus (HPV) could also offer protection against the development of pre-cancerous cells in unvaccinated women through herd immunity.
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Elon Musk's X To Deploy AI To Write Community Notes, Speed Up Fact-Checking
Elon Musk's X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network's fact-checking product and expand it to reach more people.
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Pandemic Set Human Development Back By 5 Years Globally: UN Report
A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them COVID-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.
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MHRD Invites Application For 2020 DUO-Belgium/Flanders Scholarship Programme
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has invited applications from Indian students for the 2020 DUO-Belgium/Flanders Scholarship Programme.
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New York To Allow Self-Driving Vehicle Testing: Governor
The race to develop self-driving technology remains undeterred by controversy caused by the combination of a few accidents, the idea of not having humans controlling vehicles physically, and new infrastructure needs.
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Chinese Government Scholarship 2017: Online Application Begins For Indian Nationals; Last Date April 1
Ministry of Human resource Development has notified the beginning of online application process for Indian Nationals for the award of Chinese Government Scholarship 2017 under India-China Cultural Exchange Program for the academic year 2017-18 for higher studies or research or specialized training in 16 different discipline of Language and Literatu...
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My Statement on Yale Misconstrued, Says Education Minister Smriti Irani
After stoking a fresh controversy over her educational qualifications, Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani today said her statement regarding her participation at Yale university's leadership program has been "misconstrued".
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UN Agency Rankings of Humanity's Progress
In its annual report on human development, the United Nations Development Program ranks 187 countries based on measures such as the health and longevity of their people, education and income, and personal security. Since 1990, those measures have been compiled into the agency's index of human development that is watched by governments around the wo...
