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Happiness Index 2024: India behind Pak, Iraq & Palestine at 126th spot
New York: India was ranked 126th out of 143 nations in a global happiness index released on Wednesday which noted that older age is associated with higher life satisfaction in the world’s…
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First human trial for deadly Nipah virus vaccine begins in UK
London: Scientists at the University of Oxford in the UK have launched the first-in-human clinical trial to test a vaccine to protect people against deadly Nipah virus. Fifty-one people aged 18 to…
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World’s first lip kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago: Research
New Delhi: In a startling revelation, researchers now report that lip kissing was practiced by the peoples of the ancient Middle East 4,500 years ago, moving the earliest documentation for kissing back…
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Australia’s Deakin to set up campus in India; Will Oxford follow?
Australia’s Deakin University has become the first foreign university to have set up its campus in India. This is one of the two Universities (Deakin University and Wollongong University) which have high…
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Oxford Word of the Year is self-indulgent ‘goblin mode’
London: Goblin mode, or a type of behaviour which is unapologetically self-indulgent, lazy, slovenly, or greedy, typically in a way that rejects social norms or expectations, has been overwhelmingly chosen as the…
