Month: October 2018

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Cyclone Titli Makes Landfall in Odisha, No Loss of Life Reported

The Wire Staff 11/10/2018

The very severe cyclonic storm made landfall between 4:30...

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Global Health Activists Are Against Coca-Cola Sponsoring Youth Olympics. Here’s Why

Sakuntala Narasimhan 11/10/2018

Many poor countries are experiencing the rise of obesity...

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‘Jan Gan Man Ki Baat’ Episode 315: Gadkari’s Statement and G.D. Agarwal’s Fast

The Wire Staff 10/10/2018

Vinod Dua discusses a video in which Nitin Gadkari...

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Why Does India’s Geological Heritage Remain an Unchampioned Cause?

C.P. Rajendran 10/10/2018

India's geological ‘tryst with destiny’ does not begin at...

Cyclone Titli, Odisha

Odisha Government Begins Evacuation as Cyclone ‘Titli’ Intensifies Into Storm

The Wire Staff 10/10/2018

Chief minister Naveen Patnaik asked the collectors of Ganjam,...

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 2018 Kerala floods, 2015 Chennai floods, Chembarambakkam lake, water scarcity, Stone Age tools, human migration, aridification, landfills, garbage dump, flooding, drought, climate change, paddy cultivation

Tamil Nadu’s Chembarambakkam Lake Foretells an Aridity in the Sands of Time

Anupama Chandrasekaran 10/10/2018

“People have left Chennai because of war, they’ve left...

#MeToo, #timesup, higher education, Indian Academy of Science, insa, Internal Complaints Committee, PhD students, sexism in academia, sexual harassment, Sexual harassment at the workplace, Vishakha guidelines

Indian Science’s #MeToo Moment Remains Caged in Lattice of Lopsided Relations

Aswin Sekhar 10/10/2018

When journalists try to discuss this topic in conferences...