Month: November 2016

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India’s First Private Moon Rover Will Launch One Week Before $30m Deadline

Vasudevan Mukunth 22/11/2016

TeamIndus was founded in 2010 to become the first...

Khuroshvili Ilya. Credit: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

What Will the World Actually Look Like at 1.5°C of Warming?

Richard Betts 22/11/2016

By the time we hit that temperature, further climate...

Senior citizen shows new currency notes

Finance Ministry Sends Unclear Signals About Ink on New Rs 2000 Notes

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/11/2016

That the new Rs 2,000 notes would be embedded...

Public toilets in Varanasi. Credit: Jorge Royan, CC BY-SA

Why Is It Easier for India to Get to Mars Than to Tackle Its Toilet Challenge?

Shyama V. Ramani 20/11/2016

According to the Indian census of 2011, only 46.9%...

Worker fumigates along a street in Yangon, Myanmar November 18, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun

Myanmar Struggles to Prepare For Possible Zika Outbreak

Shwe Yee Saw Myint 20/11/2016

The Ministry of Health's Than Htun Aung said measures...

An ice stupa by Sonam Wangchuk. Credit: Rolex Awards

Ice Stupa Architect Sonam Wangchuk Wins the Rolex Award for Enterprise

Janaki Lenin 20/11/2016

To solve water problems in a cold desert, Wangchuk...

Ticks being picked off (the person in this image is not P.K. Rajagopalan). Credit: P.K. Rajagopalan

The Seven-Decade Transnational Hunt for the Origins of the Kyasanur Forest Disease

Nithyanand Rao 19/11/2016

Zeroing in on the genesis of this strange disease...