Month: October 2017

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Seven Health Secretaries in Seven Years – Where Is the Accountability?

K. Sujatha Rao 26/10/2017

The government should keep the secretary of the health...

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Why Are Children Still Dying of Vaccine-Preventable Diphtheria?

Anup Agarwal and Yogesh Jain 26/10/2017

Poor implementation of routine immunisation programmes has led to...

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As US Presses Against Price Cap on Medical Devices, India Needs to Hold Health Above Trade

K.M. Gopakumar 26/10/2017

The US medical device industry's allegation on the denial...

Europeans inspect statues over a century after first contact. Carlo Bottillega 1827

Easter Island – A Sustainable Society That Has Been Falsely Blamed for Its Own Demise

Catrine Jarman 25/10/2017

How did Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, carry out...

These images from February 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in different wavelengths of light – seen as the bright spot that appears on the left limb of the Sun. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. The images were captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Caption and credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Spotted: A New Small Clue for the Very Big, Very Old Puzzle About Our Sun

Sarah Iqbal 25/10/2017

The temperature of the Sun's surface is 5500º C....

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How Bengal’s Mejia Power Plant is Wrecking the Life of the People It’s Supposed to Benefit

G. Arora 25/10/2017

Nine people have died in Latiaboni in the past...

Tailing deposits outside the Orissa Sands Complex in Chatrapur district. Credit: Ranjana Padhi and Rajinder Singh Negi

Kidney Disease Stalks Rural Odisha, Suspicions Turn to Monazite Mining

Ranjana Padhi and Rajender Singh Negi 25/10/2017

It is well known that monazite-mining adversely impacts human...