Month: January 2018

PTI

Aadhaar-Enabled Starvation in Narendra Modi’s ‘New India’

Siraj Dutta 18/01/2018

It is evident that prime minister Modi’s ambitious strides...

Relative mourn the death of a female anti-polio drive campaign worker who was shot by gunmen, at a hospital in Quetta

Two Women Working to Eradicate Polio Killed by Gunmen in Pakistan

Gul Yousafzai 18/01/2018

No group claimed responsibility for the killings in the...

Hina Bhat at a conference in Japan in 2014. Source: Author provided

The Lives and Times of Kashmir’s Women Scientists

Majid Maqbool 17/01/2018

According to one scientist, being a woman adds to...

Moeldoko, a retired military chief and newly appointed chief of staff to Indonesian President Joko Widodo's cabinet, attends his swearing in ceremony at the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia January 17, 2018. Credit: Reuters/Darren Whiteside

Indonesia Sends Military to Help Fight Health Crisis in Papua

Reuters 17/01/2018

Papua is one of Indonesia's poorest provinces despite being rich in...

A scuba diver measures the length of Sac Aktun underwater cave system as part of the Gran Acuifero Maya Project near Tulum, in Quintana Roo state, Mexico January 24, 2014. Picture taken January 24, 2014. Credit: Handout via Reuters/ Herbert Mayrl/Courtesy Gran Acuifero Maya Project (GAM)

Explorers Discover World’s Biggest Flooded Cave in Mexico

Reuters 17/01/2018

Shedding new light on the ancient Maya civilisation, the...

The spatial extent of the Indus valley civilisation (~5,300 to 3,300 years before present) is marked by dotted green lines along with the Indus river (brown line). Shading indicates the spatial pattern of June-to-September rainfall rate (mm/day). The Sahiya cave is shown by a black star. Credit: DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1701296

A Story of Monsoons and the Indus Civilisation, Teased out of Ancient Rock

Sukanya Charuchandra 17/01/2018

Our understanding of what could have motivated the ancient...

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay. Source: Infosys Science Foundation

Interview: ‘Everyone, Whether a Historian or a Geologist, Should Learn Mathematics’

Sandhya Ramesh 17/01/2018

In conversation with Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay on microRNA, machine learning,...