Year: 2016

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Israeli Success, Palestinian Misery

Omair Ahmad 23/11/2016

A book on Israel’s success in water management deliberately...

M.G.K. Menon. Credit: ISRO

Renowned Physicist M.G.K. Menon Dies at 88

A Padma Vibhushan award recipient, Menon worked on cosmic...

Nidhi Singh. Credit: Aashima Dogra

Plotting Climate Change and Diarrhoea in Varanasi

Aashima Dogra 22/11/2016

Nidhi Singh, a researcher at Banaras Hindu University, wants...

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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%...