Month: September 2018

Mankidia Sahi's residents in their mud-walled, polythene roofed houses, after August rains.

In Odisha’s Chromite Valley, Adivasis Are Paid in Poisoned Water

Sweta Dash and Abinash Dash Choudhury 07/09/2018

Sukinda, the world’s largest open-cast mining area, is also...

Workers in protective suits are seen by a truck at a Shuanghui plant following a discovery of pigs infected by the African swine fever (ASF), in Zhengzhou

African Swine Fever in China Almost Certain to Spread in Asia: FAO

Dominique Patton 07/09/2018

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation stated that the...

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Infinite in All Directions: How Do You Figure If Homosexuality Is ‘Natural’?

Vasudevan Mukunth 07/09/2018

Calling homosexuality "unnatural" suggests we know or assume that...

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Why so Many Twists and Turns in the Ongoing IISc Superconductivity Saga?

R. Ramachandran 07/09/2018

Scientists' attempts to validate the superconductivity claim in their...

India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F09) carrying GSAT-9 communications satellite blasts off from the Satish Dhawan space centre at Sriharikota, India May 5, 2017. Credit: Reuters/Stringer

India, France Set up Working Group for Gaganyaan

The announcement of setting up a working group for...

A fingerprint-like gravity wave feature occurs over a deck of marine stratocumulus clouds over the Indian Ocean, October 2003. Caption and credit: NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team

New Suspect Emerges in Mystery of What Drives Clouds Away Over the Atlantic

Ronak Gupta 07/09/2018

Like a buffer between the upper atmosphere and Earth,...

The University Grants Commission has adopted new rules against academic plagiarism. Credit: pixabay

UGC’s Anti-Plagiarism Rules Don’t Make Room for Realities of Indian Academia

Pushkar 06/09/2018

It is difficult to imagine that people in positions...