International

. India shares around 4100 km of its land border with Bangladesh. The entire stretch consists of plain, riverine, hilly and with hardly any natural obstacles. Instead of natural barriers, border meanders through villages, agricultural lands, etc. Undemarcated stretches and adverse possessions had been causing constant friction between the border guarding forces of India and … Read more

Scientists from Technion — Israel Institute of Technology have developed a concept they have named the Ramanujan Machine, after the Indian mathematician. It is not really a machine but an algorithm and performs a very unconventional function. It is a device that automatically generates conjectures (mathematical statements that are proposed as true statements) for fundamental … Read more

The World Gold Council (WGC) is a nonprofit association of the world’s leading gold producers.Headquartered in London, the WGC covers the markets which comprise about three-quarters of the world’s annual gold consumption.It is a market development organization for the gold industry which includes 25 members and many gold mining companies as well.The WGC was established … Read more

WHO launched a new online tool known as ‘AWaRe’ to promote safer use of antibiotics. The tool ‘AWaRe’ classifies antibiotics into three groups – 1) Access — antibiotics used to treat the most common and serious infections, 2) Watch — antibiotics available at all times in the healthcare system, 3) c)Reserve — antibiotics to be … Read more