Reliable community electrification significantly impacts women’s autonomy in India. It can lead to a reduction in violence against women. Increases likelihood of paid employment by 2% and contraceptive use by 4% with every 10 additional electricity hours: Study.
India achieved a 26.84% reduction in nationwide PM 2.5 levels between 2019 and 2024: Study.
6 devotees have been declared dead and 40 injured in the Tirupati stampede.
Specific bacterial strains from the Pseudomonasand Acinetobactergenera can remove toxic pollutants from soil and turn them into nutrients for plants, boosting crop yield: IIT Bombay study.
Microsoft has signed a partnership with India AI to advance AI in India, which will skill 5 lakh people by 2026.
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