Year: 2018

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The Quiet Endangerment of The Tallest Mammals

The Wire Staff 29/03/2018

Giraffe numbers have plunged by 40% in the last...

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With Narmada Supply Stopped, Gujarat Farmers Try to Keep Their Heads Above Water

Damayantee Dhar 29/03/2018

According to a few, it is ironical that the...

Stephen Hawking (left; source: hawking.org.uk) and Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (source: YouTube)

The Little Known Calcutta Scientist Whose Shoulders Hawking Stood On

Aswin Sekhar 29/03/2018

Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri described the dynamics of light’s motion...

IAEA experts, charged with reviewing Japan’s plans for the Fukushima nuclear facility, leave Unit 4 in 2013. IAEA/Flickr, CC BY 4.0

Seven Years Since the Fukushima Disaster, Is It Case Closed?

Franck Guarnieri, Mines ParisTech 28/03/2018

Calling Fukushima a “made in Japan” disaster focuses attention...

People wade through flood waters in rain-hit Chennai in 2015. Credit: PTI

Extreme Rainfall Events in India Related to Human-made Emissions

Dinesh C. Sharma 28/03/2018

A new study, conducted at IIT Gandhinagar, has shown...

Ever since the residents of Mandki refused to let AMC dump Aurangabad's wastes in the village, sights like this have become common place in the city. Credit: Twitter/ Aurangabad Buzz

Why Aurangabad’s Garbage Crisis is Raising a Stink

Nidhi Jamwal 28/03/2018

The villages around Aurangabad, Maharashtra, have refused to take...

The Government General Hospital, Chennai. Tamil Nadu introduced a free medicines model in 1995 consisting of highly a effective system of drug procurement, quality checks and supply and distribution centred on government hospitals. Credit: SwiftRakesh/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Whatever Happened to India’s National Free Medicines Scheme?

Chhaya Pachauli 27/03/2018

Nearly 67% of India’s out-of-pocket expenditure on health is...