Traditional healing system faces challenges of being lost and slid into oblivion What is traditional healing? Traditional healing refers to the health practices, approaches, knowledge and beliefs that incorporate healing and wellness. These practices include using ceremonies, plant, animal or mineral-based medicines, energetic therapies and physical or hands-on techniques. Traditional healing practice is holistic and aims at the overall well-being of the …

·        Kaziranga National Park is located in the state of Assam. ·        The park hosts two-thirds of the world’s great one-horned rhinoceroses. Rhino population: According to the census held in March 2018 the rhino population in Kaziranga National Park is 2,613. Conservation status: ·        It is a World Heritage Site declared by UNESCO in 1985. ·        Kaziranga National Park …

BAILEY BRIDGE Army may build Bailey bridges in Kaziranga to protect rhino’s domain The Army may help build Bailey bridges in the Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve for faster movement of forest guards in strategic, vulnerable pockets of the one-horned rhino domain. The Bailey bridges sought would essentially replace wooden structures in flood-prone vulnerable pockets in …

Prices of milk across country has gone up. The current price inflation in milk has mainly to do with a shortage of fat. It has led dairies to increase full-cream milk prices more or to cut down fat content through rebranding of existing products. Production statistics: The share of buffaloes to total output was about 46.4% in 2021-22. In 2000-01, it stood at …

Users of the digital newsletter platform Substack reported they could not like or retweet Twitter posts with Substack links Substack Substack, launched in 2017, is an online publishing platform that lets writers and podcasters publish and share content directly with their target audience. The platform allows content creators to generate income directly from subscribers on their terms. The platform …

The deaths of 11 people in Mumbai due to heatstroke, while they were attending a government meeting in an open space, is possibly the largest heatwave-related death toll from a single event. Key details: According to the IMD, heatwave conditions are currently prevailing in some areas of Gangetic West Bengal, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. What …

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to take its most daring leap yet with a round-the-world test flight of its mammoth Starship. SpaceX Space is a rocket company founded by Elon Musk. It was created with the mission of taking humans to Mars. Headquarters: Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with the stated goal of …

The Caste System is not merely a division of labour. It is also a division of labourers. Civilised society undoubtedly needs division of labour. But in no civilised society is division of labour accompanied by this unnatural division of labourers into watertight compartments it is a hierarchy in which the …