Year: 2015

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There’s No Romance in this Story of Fudged Clinical Trials

Dinesh Thakur 19/12/2015

How systemic problems at a drug testing lab, GVK...

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Affordable Drugs Need a Compensatory Patent Commons

Shamnad Basheer 17/12/2015

The Delhi high court has ruled in favour of...

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Whatever Happens Next, This is What COP21 Lets Us Do Against Climate Change

Anjali Vaidya 17/12/2015

The Paris Agreement has been signed, as of Saturday...

From new Delhi to Jaipur.

We Need Clean Air But Spare Us the Judicial Overreach

Markandey Katju 16/12/2015

The Supreme Court's specific directions not only violate the...

Left to right: The Velox-C1 and Kent Ridge-1 payloads on the equipment bay; integration of the first-stage segment; the C29 inside the mobile-service tower; C-29 on the first launchpad with the vehicle assembly building in the background. Credit: ISRO

ISRO to Try Launching Multiple Satellites Into Different Orbits in a Single Launch

IANS 16/12/2015

On Wednesday, ISRO's PSLV rocket will blast off from...

If we delay the first stock-taking to 2023, the consequences will be perilous for India and other poor nations in the bottom half of the world. Credit: spinster cardigan/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Ten Inconvenient Truths About the Paris Climate Accord

Surya P. Sethi 16/12/2015

1. The Paris Agreement has deftly crafted language to...

A computer's reconstruction of the diphoton event, indicating a particle weighing around 750 GeV/c2, observed by the ATLAS detector. Credit: ATLAS/CERN

Hopes for a New Particle at the LHC Offset By Call for More Data

Vasudevan Mukunth 16/12/2015

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations reported subtle hints of...