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Vitamin K – Beyond Blood Clotting
Why in news? An article published on 18 November 2025 in Business Standard drew renewed attention to Vitamin K, highlighting its roles beyond blood cl...
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Why in news? An article published on 18 November 2025 in Business Standard drew renewed attention to Vitamin K, highlighting its roles beyond blood cl...
Why in news? Scientists recently completed a large genetic and morphological review of sea‑floor life, revealing 57 new species of foraminifera. The...
Why in news? On 15 November 2025, a powerful car blast near Delhi’s Red Fort killed a doctor and injured several others. Investigators suspect that ...
Why in news? A decade‑long study at a private hospital in Gurugram reported remarkable success in curing children with sickle cell disease using ste...
Why in news? The second annual review meeting of the Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAG) 2.0 was held at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gu...
Why in news? Kerala recorded a surge of over 3,000 hepatitis A cases and more than a dozen deaths by mid‑April 2025, prompting health experts to urg...
Why in news? A report on post‑blast forensic investigations highlighted how experts use Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy to analyse ch...
Why in news? Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket has successfully launched NASA’s Escapade mission, sending two small spacecraft on a long journey to M...
Why in news? At the 3rd International Conference on Green Hydrogen, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh announced that four Hydrogen Valleys will be cre...
Why in news? A recent clinical study reported that metformin, a widely prescribed diabetes drug, may blunt some of the cardiovascular benefits of exer...
Why in news? The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has directed that all detailed project reports for highway projects include analyses using th...
Why in news? The Indian Railways plans to deploy a new system called DRISHTI (Dynamic Real‑time Intelligent Surveillance for High‑value Transport ...
Why in news? On 11 November 2025, India’s National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) inaugurated the country’s first megawatt‑hour‑scale Vanadi...
Why in news? Scientists from the University of Wollongong announced in November 2025 that they have engineered a designer molecule that clears misfold...
Why in news? A clinical trial known as TARGET‑D reported in 2025 that adults who had previously experienced a heart attack and took personalised dos...
Why in news? A wave of recent exoplanet research has reignited interest in the Rare Earth Hypothesis. Astronomers have discovered that many planets pr...
Why in news? A study published in Scientific Reports in November 2025 proposes that Neanderthals did not vanish through a sudden extinction but were g...
Why in news? The World Health Organisation has reported an outbreak of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in Mauritania and Senegal between late September and Oc...
Why in news? The Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has amended the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Rules 2014. The change, noti...
Why in news? Physicists have experimentally confirmed the existence of a new type of magnetism called altermagnetism. Studies conducted at the Swiss L...