Year: 2018

Cyclone Titli, Odisha

In Landslide Triggered by Cyclone Titli in Odisha, 12 Feared Dead, Four Missing

The incident occurred when some villagers took shelter in...

Achan-2

Government Apathy Is Behind Srinagar’s Achan Dumping Site Becoming a Major Health Hazard

Farooq Shah 13/10/2018

While a waste-to-energy power project was first proposed in...

exoplanets, extraterrestrial life, High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, Mars, Proxima Centauri, red-dwarf stars, solar flare, SpaceX, terminator, tidal locking, TRAPPIST-1, twilight zone, Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph

What’re the Possibilities for Life Around the Universe’s Most Common Stars?

Jatan Mehta 13/10/2018

When all the Sun-like stars have died in few...

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Ayushman Bharat’s Declared Measures Seem Neither Adequate Nor Practical

Kumar Rana 13/10/2018

The government has identifies that 62.58% of the population...

afforestation, MoEFCC, climate change, carbon sink, IPCC, UNFCCC, drought, flooding, Palmer drought severity index, biomass

Climate Change Is Reducing the Ability of Forests to Store Carbon

Lalitha Krishnan 13/10/2018

India has said it will boost its carbon sink...

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Infinite in All Directions: Academia’s #MeToo, Moonmoons, Sophistry v. Knowledge

Vasudevan Mukunth 12/10/2018

If we're to minimise sexual harassment in academia, piecemeal...

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Professor G.D. Agarwal’s Contributions to the Ganga Cause Were Unparalleled

Himanshu Thakkar 12/10/2018

G.D. Agarwal's died as he lived – with a...