Month: August 2018

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Fire at Mumbai’s BPCL Plant May Have Been Put Out, But a Bigger Disaster Is Brewing

Sukanya Shantha 10/08/2018

Thousands are have been relocated to multi-storied buildings in...

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Rain Fury Continues in Kerala, Two More Shutters of Idukki Reservoir Opened

Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan had described the flood situation...

It is incorrect to call them 'predatory' journals because the term predatory suggests that there is a predator and a victim. Credit: nile/pixabay

‘Predatory’ Is a Misnomer in the Unholy Nexus Between Journals and Plagiarism

Rashmi Raniwala and Sudhir Raniwala 10/08/2018

In academia, the crime of plagiarism used to be...

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Monsoon Fury Claims 26 Lives in Kerala; Scores of Dams Opened

More than 10,000 people have been shifted to 157...

In the last couple of weeks, many companies have pledged to stop the use of plastic straws, a common single-use plastic commodity. Credit: AnjaMM/pixabay

Asking People to Have Fewer Babies to Fight Climate Change Is Not Fair

Madalsa Singh 09/08/2018

The greatest trick neoliberalism ever pulled was to convince...

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Gorakhpur Deaths: Adityanath Government Ignored SOS on Oxygen Payments for Months

Anoo Bhuyan 09/08/2018

In the months leading up to the tragedy that...

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The AI Revolution Will Be Led by Toasters, Not Droids

Janelle Shane 09/08/2018

When you think of AI, do you picture a...