Year: 2018

File photo illustration shot in Ljubljana of pharmaceutical tablets and capsules in foil strips

Govt Wants Pharma Firms to Hand Over 1% Profits for Emergency ‘Medicine Bank’

The Wire Staff 05/06/2018

The drugs would be earmarked for health emergencies and...

Arunachal landslide

Landslide Due to Heavy Rainfall Kills Ten in Mizoram

The landslide hit a two-storied building which had 14...

Michael Jackson performs the 'anti-gravity' tilt in the music video for 'Smooth Criminal'. Source: YouTube

Docs Say It’s Impossible to Pull off MJ’s ‘Smooth Criminal’ Tilt Without Help

Lakshmi Supriya 05/06/2018

Go easy, dancers. The 45º tilt is impossible to...

Montipora digitata, a.k.a. 'finger coral'. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

‘Coral Bleaching Event in 2016 Caused Severe Mortality in Gulf of Mannar’

Ravi Mishra 05/06/2018

With 117 coral species, the Gulf of Mannar is...

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At Least 14 Die in 36 Hours in Ranchi After Nurses, Junior Doctors Go on Strike

IANS 04/06/2018

The strike was over an assault on one of...

The most frequent use of mangoes in fiction is as a succulent emblem of longings, yearnings and revelations, both physical and metaphysical. Credit: Reuters

Bad Weather Takes a Heavy Toll on Mango Output in UP, Exports May be Hit

Production, estimated at 50 lakh tonnes this year, is...

Like all crafts that have presented unique rewards to their practitioners, the hope is that young scientists will use the initial prompt to measure their own research against benefits to society to, in time, enjoy writing about human knowledge for its own sake. Credit: Annie Spratt/Unsplash

Success of New Scheme to Get Scientists to Write More Needs Community Effort

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/06/2018

Laudable as AWSAR's aims are, one of its stipulations...