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London, April 5 The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford have launched a historic UK-wide tour of ‘Shikshapatri’, one of the world’s most significant and rare Hindu scriptures, to mark its 200th anniversary.The sacred manuscript began its bicentenary journey earlier this year...

New Delhi, March 31 Exposure to high temperatures during pregnancy may be linked to a decline in male births, according to an analysis of five million births across India and 33 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.Researchers, led by those at the University of Oxford in the UK, linked data from...

Nagpur, March 20 A farmer in Maharashtra, who once could not afford to buy clothes but gradually built a poultry business empire with an annual turnover of crores, has been invited to share his insights as an agri-entrepreneur at the University of Oxford.Ravindra Manikrao Metkar, 57, from...

Nagpur, March 19 A farmer in Maharashtra, who once could not afford to buy clothes but gradually built an empire of poultry business that now has an annual turnover running into crores, has received an invitation to share his insights as an agri-entrepreneur at the University of Oxford...

London, March 4 In a major first, the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford has returned a 16th-century bronze idol to India for its journey back to the temple in Tamil Nadu where it belongs.The sacred icon of Saint Thirumankai Alvar was acquired by the museum in a Sotheby’s auction in...

Washington, February 19 – A seven-year-old girl in Lucknow stood in her backyard at dawn in October 1957, watching Sputnik streak across the sky. Nearly seven decades later, that child would help operate some of NASA’s most complex space telescopes, from Hubble to James Webb.“The story begins...