Month: March 2018

Union health minister J.P. Nadda. Credit: PTI

Allocation for Government’s ‘Largest’ Insurance Scheme Swells to 5x

The Wire Staff 22/03/2018

The Rs-10,000-crore allocation is for insurance premiums as well...

collage inside gadkari

Why Is Narendra Modi Allowing Nitin Gadkari to Destroy the Ganga?

Rashme Sehgal 22/03/2018

The National Waterway 1 project on Ganga is being...

Supreme Court of India

SC Ruling on Passive Euthanasia Leaves Important Questions Unanswered

Maulika K. Hegde and Shweta Mallya 22/03/2018

Although the court’s ruling analyses advance medical directives for...

New-Site-for-INO-Lab

Team Behind Planned Neutrino Observatory Disputes Recent Media Reports on Ministry Clearance

INO Collaboration 22/03/2018

"There is and has been no attempt to 'cut...

The Kelly brothers. Scott (right) and Mark Kelly were the subjects of a twins study aimed at discerning effects of space travel on the human body. Credit: Robert Markowitz/ NASA

World’s Media Bungled Twin Astronauts Study So Bad That NASA Had to Step In

The Wire Staff 21/03/2018

Some reports said Scott and Mark Kelly were no...

The boundary wall of the Numaligarh Refinery seen blocking the elephant corridor from Kaziranga National Park. Credit: Samarjit Sharma

Portion of Wall Around Controversial State-Owned Refinery in Assam Pulled Down

Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty 21/03/2018

The National Green Tribunal had ordered the wall torn...

mHealth, or "mobile health", enthusiasts envisage healthcare delivery as an engineering problem, as if a technical solution can be developed to solve it. Credit: N i c o l a/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Trouble With Developing a Framework for Primary Healthcare Delivery in Poor Countries

Vivekanand Jha 21/03/2018

Long-term approaches are difficult but necessary to solve the...