Once considered a male bastion, women are entering the veterinary profession in large numbers.At a time when veterinary science is emerging as one of the potential areas for higher education and research across the world, the number of woman veterinarians is on the rise.Globally 55% of veterinarians are women. Among the veterinarians working in Kerala…Continue Reading

Twenty-six people were injured in at a jallikattu organised at Lakshmanapatty village near Mathur in the district on Tuesday. Seven hundred bulls were released during the event in which 300 tamers participated. Eighteen out of the 26 injured were treated as out-patients at the venue, while the remaining eight were referred to hospitals., said police…Continue Reading

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India’s Cumulative COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage exceeds 179.13 Cr More than 21.34 lakh Vaccine Doses administered in the last 24 hoursRecovery Rate currently stands at 98.68%3,993 New Cases reported in the last 24 hoursIndia’s Active Caseload currently stands at 49,948Weekly Positivity Rate is presently at 0.68% Posted On: 08 MAR…Continue Reading

The Bay Area’s ABC7 reported late last month that a black woman was made to move her seat on a Delta flight to accommodate white passengers in an article that heavily implied the seat-change was racially motivated. The original local news report found its way into the New York Post, The Independent, and Business Insider,…Continue Reading

A worker turns a valve at UdmurtNeft’s Gremikhinskoye oil field east of Izhevsk, Russia, in 2007. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters) The Biden administration is expected to announce a ban of Russian oil imports as early as Tuesday, according to several reports. The U.S. ban, which will cover liquefied natural gas and coal, would come without European participation,…Continue Reading

An oil tank truck fills the pumps at a Shell petrol station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 31, 2019. (Nacho Doce/Reuters) Shell announced Tuesday it would immediately stop purchasing Russian crude oil and would shutter its service stations in the country in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on the same day the price…Continue Reading

Pressure from the Biden administration, regulators, activists, and younger employees is pushing private industry to emulate universities in adopting DEI. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE P rivate businesses are under intense pressure from the government and activists to allocate employment and promotion opportunities to members of so-called marginalized communities. It’s not surprising that they are caving. The…Continue Reading

Sen. Angus King said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine amounts to a “colossal intelligence failure” that overestimated the capability of his army and underestimated the resistance of the Ukrainian people. Mr. King, Maine independent and a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said Russia has “already lost this war”…Continue Reading

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Biden has decided to ban Russian oil imports, toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move follows pleas by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to U.S. and Western officials to cut off the imports, which had been…Continue Reading