Month: May 2015

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Kofi Annan Urges Bangladesh Not to Lower Minimum Age

The Wire Staff 28/05/2015

A few weeks ago, the Bangladeshi Cabinet approved a...

BJP leaders cleaning a water body. Credit: YouTube screengrab

The Long and Difficult Road to a Swachh Bharat

Mamata Dash 27/05/2015

The SBM should not become yet another government scheme...

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Healthcare, the Soft Underbelly of Modi’s First Year as PM

Rama V. Baru 26/05/2015

With the budget squeeze affecting national health programmes, the...

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Twitter Isn’t Impressed With What We’re Doing About Climate Change

Vasudevan Mukunth 26/05/2015

Based on tweets sent between 2008 and 2014, mathematicians...

John Forbes Nash, Jr. Credit: Princeton University

Remembering John Nash, Mathematician Who Unlocked Game Theory For Economics

Vasudevan Mukunth 25/05/2015

The Nobel Prize and Abel prize winning John Nash...

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Time to Reopen the Euthanasia Debate

Minakshi Biswas 24/05/2015

Legalising active euthanasia in India, where majority of the...

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A Dislocation of the Juvenile Justice System

Maharukh Adenwalla 23/05/2015

Recent studies in neuroscience indicate that brain systems are...