Tripura's first high-rise earthquake-resistant building nears completion

Mar 31, 2025

Tripura is set to witness a major infrastructural milestone with the construction of a state-of-the-art G+14 administrative building at Gurkhabasti, Agartala. This will be...

New technology for retrofitting non-earthquake-resistant buildings can prevent damage in old settlements

Oct 26, 2022

The technology called semi-confined unreinforced brick masonry (SC-URBM) can resolve the problem of spread of settlements in earthquake-prone areas with constructions that have been...

Creating role models in an era of reel models

May 02, 2025

New Delhi [India], May 2: In an era of instant gratification and changing definitions of who is projected as a role model, the 22nd...

Tuberculosis cases surged for the first time in many years: WHO

Oct 28, 2022

The burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) also increased by 3 per cent between 2020 and 2021, with 450 000 new cases of rifampicin-resistant TB...

Israeli researchers develop drought-resistant tomato

Apr 27, 2023

The study, recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was led by doctoral student Shai Torgeman and professor...

'Zaynich' antibiotic for multi-drug resistant infections to get USFDA approval next year: Wockhardt Chairman Habib Khorakiwala

Apr 12, 2025

Zaynich is a novel antibiotic developed to target multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative infections.