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Emotional issues being ‘misused’ politically, attention being diverted from real issues: Rahul

New Delhi, Jan 12 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said emotional issues are being “misused” politically and attention is being diverted from real issues, in a “betrayal” of the people of the country. In a post in Hindi on X on National Youth Day, Gandhi stressed the need to remember the thoughts of Swami Vivekananda, who regarded the energy of the youth the basis of a prosperous country and service of those suffering and the poor as the greatest penance. “The youth will have to think about what will be the identity of the India of our dreams?

Supreme Court says no coercive action against union minister Nisith Pramanik in attempt-to-murder case

New Delhi, Jan 12 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the West Bengal police to not take any coercive action against Union Minister of State for Home Nisith Pramanik in a 2018 attempt to murder case. A bench of Justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal listed his plea challenging the the January 4 order of the Jalpaiguri Circuit Bench of the Calcutta High Court which refused to grant him anticipatory bail in the case. An attempt to murder case was registered against Pramanik with Dinhata police station of Cooch Behar district of West Bengal in 2018, when a

Parliament session from Jan 31 to Feb 9, Sitharaman to present interim budget on Feb 1

New Delhi, Jan 12 (PTI) A brief Budget session of Parliament, the last of the 17th Lok Sabha, will be held between January 31 and February 9, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said on Friday. He said on X, “Interim Budget Session 2024, last session of Seventeenth Lok Sabha to be held from 31st January to 9th February, with address of Hon’ble President to the Parliament. On 1st February, Hon’ble FM @nsitharaman ji will present the Interim Union Budget.” The new government, which will be sworn in after the Lok Sabha polls expected in April-May, will present the full-fledged budget

Sugar-loving fruit bats’ DNA could find out new diabetes treatments, scientists say

January 12, 2024 (The Conversation ): Humans are not the only mammals that love sugar. Fruit bats do, too, eating up to twice their body weight in sugary fruit a day. However, unlike humans, fruit bats thrive on a sugar-rich diet. They can lower their blood sugar faster than bats that rely on insects as their main food source. We are a team of biologists and bioengineers. Determining how fruit bats evolved to specialize on a high-sugar diet sent us on a quest to approach diabetes therapy from an unusual angle — one that sent us all the way to

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