Month: August 2018

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India’s Hetero Pulls Heart Drug From US Amid Cancer Risk Probes

Reuters 14/08/2018

At least a dozen companies around the world have...

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Congo Starts Using Experimental Ebola Treatment

Reuters 14/08/2018

The outbreak in eastern Congo's North Kivu province has...

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The Role of Science Journalism in a World With Preprints

Vasudevan Mukunth 14/08/2018

Attempting to call out science journalists who recognise that...

A man reacts as an illegal logging camp is burnt during "Operation Green Wave" conducted by the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, to combat illegal logging in Apui, in the southern region of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, July 28, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Bruno Kelly/File Photo

Illegal Fishing, Harm to Amazon Forest Linked to Tax Havens, Finds Study

Alister Doyle 14/08/2018

The study follows the 2015 leak of the Panama Papers, which...

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Tamil Nadu Moves SC Against NGT Order Allowing Vedanta to Access Tuticorin Plant Unit

On August 9, the NGT had allowed Vedanta to...

Flooding in Kerala. Credit: PTI

Rains Continue in Kerala, People Take Shelter at Relief Camps

Over 13,800 people have been provided shelter at 124...

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Lack of Data and Funds Debilitate Bengaluru’s Efforts to Sterilise Its Dogs

Rishika Pardikar 14/08/2018

“Why isn't a safe and efficient birth-control programme a...