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The 20-meter tall missile weighs around 17 tonne and has two stages of solid propulsion.

An anthropomorphic figure has been discovered among the prehistoric petroglyphs (rock engravings) on the Thovari hills near Edakkal caves in the Wayanad district of Kerala. This is the first time an anthropomorphic figure, a recurring motif of pre-historic rock arts sites in the world, has been reported from the site.

As climate change continues to impact socio-economic life of people in the Sunderbans, researchers have called for ensuring supply of fresh sweet water to the island along with other adaptation strategies for saving the mangrove tress, people and the unique biodiversity of the region.

The Centre will soon include Third Line therapy for persons living with HIV in the government’s Anti-Retroviral Treatment programme.

The Assam government has requested UNESCO to declare the historic ‘Junbeel Mela’ a heritage festival and Morigaon district a heritage site.

Mumbai-based author-journalist Cyrus Mistry won the prestigious DSC prize for South Asian literature for 2014 here on Saturday for his book Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer  on the painful lives of members of the small Zoroastrian community of corpse carriers. The prize, comprising $50,000, , was announced at the Jaipur Literature Festival here.

A more independent judiciary based on an equally independent Judicial Appointments Commission is a categorical imperative for democratic praxis in India