Month: May 2018

Donald Anderson. Credit: Joshua Mathew2004/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Review: ‘The Last White Hunter’ Is a Celebration of Lost Tales From the Wild

S. Theodore Baskaran 27/05/2018

The book is bound to be valuable for anyone...

P.C. Vaidya. Credit: Nihargokhale/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Centenary: P.C. Vaidya, a Gandhian Physicist Who Laboured in India’s Shadows

Aparajith Ramnath 27/05/2018

He was a ‘rooted cosmopolitan’, engaging with the world...

Jayant Singh (in black) and Gopendra Singh Parmar (in pink) both lost their children to negligence on the part of private hospitals and have been fighting for a better Indian healthcare system. Credit: Vidya Krishnan/Twitter

Patients Over Profits: Families Unite to Fight for Healthcare and Justice

Anoo Bhuyan 27/05/2018

Families struggle to access healthcare, and then justice, as...

If we don't invest more in climate-resilient infrastructure, natural disasters will cost cities 25% more worldwide every year post-2030 than they do in 2018. Credit: jsptoa/pixabay

Aside From Battling Climate Change, We’re Not Doing Enough to Adapt to It

Nibu Pullamvilavil 27/05/2018

Credit ratings agencies must evaluate the impact of climate...

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111 Infants Dead in Past Five Months in Adani-Run Hospital, Probe Ordered

Adani Education and Research Foundation-run G.K. General Hospital in...

Monsoon in Srilanka. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Heavy Rains and Strong Winds Kill 16 in Sri Lanka

Heavy Rains and flooding last year had struck in...

Kozhikode: Animal Husbandry department and forest officials collect bats from a well of a house after the outbreak of 'Nipah' virus, near Perambra in Kozhikode on Monday. The Nipah virus has so far claimed three lives in Kerala while one person is undergoing treatment and 8 others are under observation in Kozhikode district. Credit: PTI

Samples of Fruit-Eating Bats to Be Tested for Nipah Virus

The WHO has named Nipah as one of the...