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October 14, 2024 8:22 PM

Retail inflation rises to 5.49% in September, driven by food prices

India’s Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation rose to 5.49% in September, up from 3.65% in August, reflecting a sharp increase driven primarily by rising food prices. Rural inflation stood at 5.87%, while urban inflation was recorded at 5.05%, highlighting continued price pressures across reg...

October 14, 2024 4:57 PM

Supreme Court rejects plea alleging side effects of COVID-19 vaccines

The Supreme Court of India on Monday dismissed a petition alleging that COVID-19 vaccines caused severe side effects, including blood clotting, calling the plea as an attempt to create unnecessary alarm. A bench led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, along with Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, ...

October 14, 2024 3:12 PM

NASA spacecraft to study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa can harbor life

NASA is set to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa, considered one of our solar system's most promising spots to search for life beyond Earth, to learn whether this ice-encased world believed to harbor a vast underground ocean is habitable. The U.S. space agency's robotic solar-powered Eur...

October 10, 2024 5:19 PM

Scientists discover key enzyme to overcome cancer drug resistance

Scientists from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, have identified a new therapeutic target by activating a DNA repair enzyme called Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 (TDP1). This discovery could pave the way for combination therapy, offering hope for patients who a...

October 10, 2024 5:08 PM

South Korea’s Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel literature prize

South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the award-giving body said on Thursday. The prize is awarded by the Swedish Academy and is worth 11 million Swedish crowns ($...

October 10, 2024 4:57 PM

Who are buy now, pay later borrowers, and what are they buying?

As Amazon's Prime Day kicked off the holiday shopping season this week, U.S. consumers are expected to spend a record $18.5 billion using buy now, pay later for purchases in the last quarter of the year, according to projections by data firm Adobe Analytics. Buy now, pay later (BNPL) exploded in po...

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