Eight critically endangered white-rumped vultures, six of them captive-bred, were reintroduced into the wild on Thursday for the first time in India since the vulture conservation and breeding centre was set up in the lower Shivaliks near here in September 2001

A team of Indian-origin researchers in the US is working to develop a unique Covid-19 vaccine that uses a bovine adenovirus that will protect all segments of the population, especially older adults

Smartphone sales in India have already picked up pace ahead of the festive season due to pent-up demand from the lockdown and new use cases like education of children even as 200 million smartphones in the country are waiting to be upgraded, industry experts said on Wednesday

Breast cancer is on the rise in India, with various health experts attributing it to lifestyle changes, changing reproductive preferences and hormonal imbalances in the body

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has lauded the National Clinical Management Protocol based on Ayurvada on Yoga, calling it "commendable"

The Commerce Ministry has lifted the restrictions on export of N95 masks. Post the decision, masks of all categories can be exported from India

The NSCN-IM, which has been negotiating with the government to resolve its decades-old autonomy issues, has demanded the involvement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the talks for faster determination of their demands, insisting that the negotiations be held in a "third country"

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reviewed on Tuesday the efforts by the two countries to combat the COVID-19 pandemic while stressing the need to work together to advance security in the Indo-Pacific region, according to State Department Deputy Spokesperson Cale Brown

India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, at the Quad consultations in Tokyo on Tuesday reiterated that India was committed to the shared vision of the US, Japan and Australia for a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific

India on Tuesday reported 61,267 fresh infections of the novel Coronavirus, taking the case tally to 66,85,082, health officials said. This is the lowest daily spike since August

With just nine days remaining for the cinema halls across the country to open, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday announced standard operating protocols (SOPs), saying the halls will function with only 50 per cent occupancy

The Indian space agency is working towards launching its new rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) before December 2020, said a senior official

Stressing on the significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and India's growing role in the segment, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday cautioned against weaponisation of AI by "non-state actors"

An unintended but welcome consequence of the lockdown to contain the coronavirus has been improved air quality, according to a presentation of ALTAIR, a team of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students led by first-year MBBS student Ayesha Samdani, which won the the Judges Choice Award in the International NASA Space App Challenge-2020 for presenting a solution in response to NASA's challenge, 'One Health Approach'

Graphics giant Nvidia on Monday said that India's largest high performance computing-Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) supercomputer PARAM Siddhi-AI will use its technology along with indigenously developed HPC-AI engine, software frameworks and Cloud platform by the country's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)