Month: June 2018

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Amitabh Bachchan’s Partnership With Horlicks Has Public Health Experts Alarmed

The Wire Staff 05/06/2018

In 2014, Bachchan had renounced his association with Pepsi....

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‘Jan Gan Man Ki Baat’ Episode 254: World Environment Day and Farm Distress

The Wire Staff 05/06/2018

Vinod Dua discusses pollution in India in light of...

A total of 244 samples have been tested in Kerala for the Nipah virus so far, of which 18 were positive and 226 negative, the government said.Credit: Reuters

Nipah Virus Scare Forces Kerala Church to Change Centuries-Old Ritual

Rejimon K. 05/06/2018

A diocese in northern Kerala has urged churches to...

Single-use plastic items in a trash can. Credit: kevinkrejci/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Why the War Against Plastics Must Be Unforgiving and Brook No Concession

Diya Deb 05/06/2018

India generates 15,342 tonnes of plastic waste per day,...

Municipal waste dumped near a bus stand in Dharamshala. Credit: Sumit Mahar

There Are Ecological Limits to Growth – Just Look at Himachal Pradesh

Manshi Asher and Prakash Bhandari 05/06/2018

As the state's situation worsens, the only two choices...

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A Gas Banned by the Montreal Protocol Has Resurfaced in the Atmosphere

Sarah Iqbal 05/06/2018

Some place in east Asia is emitting trichlorofluoromethane –...

File photo illustration shot in Ljubljana of pharmaceutical tablets and capsules in foil strips

Govt Wants Pharma Firms to Hand Over 1% Profits for Emergency ‘Medicine Bank’

The Wire Staff 05/06/2018

The drugs would be earmarked for health emergencies and...