Month: August 2018

SV Medical College in Tirupati. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Andhra Medico Who Accused Professors of Sexual Harassment Commits Suicide

IANS 07/08/2018

The woman had told her friends that she was...

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9,000 Lists Written Over 300 Years Are Helping Test Theories of Economic Growth

University of Cambridge 07/08/2018

In searching for a causal link between education and...

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Amid National Decline, Spike in HIV Cases in Three Northeast States

The Wire Staff 07/08/2018

HIV cases have risen in Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura...

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Without Tackling Hunger and Malnutrition, India’s ‘Acche Din’ Will Remain Stunted

Ranjan Ray 07/08/2018

It helps no one, least of all the malnourished...

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Health Activists Urge BJP to Recall Drug Labels Used as Proxy Party Advertisement

The Wire Staff 06/08/2018

Observing that the BJP is conflating the government's 'achievements'...

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Did IISc Team Find a Room-Temperature Superconductor? The Devil’s in the Details

R. Ramachandran 06/08/2018

Theorists think the data is "clean". Experimentalists aren't convinced...

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A Cross-Border Coal Power Plant Could Put Sundarbans at Risk

Sahana Ghosh 06/08/2018

Conservationists argue the power plant would spew thousands of...