Year: 2018

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NGT Stays Tree Felling for Redevelopment Project in Delhi Till July 19

The plea claimed that planting of saplings at another...

A cursory internet search will reveal that news articles regularly report the value of confiscated wildlife products either in attention-grabbing-in-your-face headlines or in the content. Credit: IanZA/pixabay

The Media’s Disservice to India’s Wildlife That Only It Can Fix

Chaitanya Krishna 02/07/2018

The current practice of reporting the monetary value of...

A total of 244 samples have been tested in Kerala for the Nipah virus so far, of which 18 were positive and 226 negative, the government said.Credit: Reuters

Kerala Govt Declares Kozhikode and Malappuram Districts Nipah Virus Free

The state health minister K.K. Shylaja said, "A decision...

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Listen: Deciphering Emotions and Empathy With a Neuropsychologist

Shruti Muralidhar, Navneet A. Vasistha and Abhishek Chari 02/07/2018

Reema Jayakar thinks humans might be one of the...

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Robbed of a Decent Childhood, India’s Voiceless Children Deserve More

Manabi Majumdar 02/07/2018

An argument in favour of a public solution to...

Cigarette packets with graphic pictorial warnings are pictured on the counter of a cigarette seller in Mumbai

WHO’s Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products Is Now ‘Live’

The Wire Staff 01/07/2018

After the UK ratified it last week, the legally...

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Our Intimate Connection to Trees Isn’t Just About Clean Air

Monobina Gupta 01/07/2018

In times as noisy as these, do we have...