Month: August 2019

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Rain Toll in Northern India Touches 38; Hundreds Stranded in Uttarakhand, HP

The situation in parts of Punjab and Haryana remained...

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Chandrayaan 2 Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit

Following this, a series of orbit manoeuvres will be...

Pregnant woman, in Anand town, resting. Credit: Reuters/Mansi Thapliyal

PM Modi is Worried About Population Explosion, a Problem Set to Go Away in 2021

Saurabh Rai and M. Sivakami 20/08/2019

Instead, we should focus on why population control efforts...

missing heritability problem, gene variants, rare diseases, genome wide association studies, whole genome sequencing, DNA sequencing, body mass index, human body height, polygenic risk score, preprint paper, peer review, genetic variation, heritability,

The Hidden Mutations That Could Help You Evolve Better

Pratik Pawar 20/08/2019

Noted evolutionary biologists like Stephen Jay Gould and others...

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In Kerala, an Entire Village Uprooted by Landslide

Muhammed Sabith 20/08/2019

A collapsing hill has destroyed the homes, lives and...

The Indus Water Treaty is widely and correctly cited as a success story for the transboundary sharing of river waters. Credit: Reuters

Pakistan, India Spar Over Using Water as a Weapon in Kashmir Dispute

Mehr Nadeem, Saad Sayeed and Neha Dasgupta 19/08/2019

Pakistan said on Monday that New Delhi had failed...

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‘Nature Doesn’t Discriminate, but Humans Do’: Sangli Flood Victims Allege Casteism

Sukanya Shantha 19/08/2019

In Bhilavdi village of Sangli, residents say the sarpanch...