Year: 2019

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Top Wildlife Scientists Ask for Cancellation of SC Tribal Eviction Order

Nitin Sethi 28/02/2019

They called the Supreme Court order ‘unjust’ to the...

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Eviction of Tribals: Forced Displacement and Its Links With Poor Health

Sarojini Nadimpally, Deepa Venkatachalam and Adsa Fatima 28/02/2019

Forced displacement has been shown to increase vulnerability to...

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SC to Hear Centre’s Plea Seeking Withholding of Eviction of Tribals

The plea said that as the forest dwellers were...

Tadoba tiger reserve, coal mines, road widening project, Naghbid-Mul, Hinganghat-Mul, Chandrapur-Allapalli, tourism, ecotourism, forest department, Maharashtra, Moharli, homestay, Chandrapur, wildlife corridor,

Tadoba: The Story of a Park Under Siege

Kunal Sharma 27/02/2019

The famed tiger reserve is being boxed in by...

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Scientists Surprised to Find a Dead Humpback Whale in Brazil’s Amazon

The Wire Staff 27/02/2019

At this time of year, humpback whales should be...

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Patients, Health Workers Protest Breach of Rights at Private Hospitals

The Wire Staff 27/02/2019

They also demanded regulation of rates at private hospitals...

astrometry, Gaia space probe, European Space Agency - ESA, telescope, astrolabe, armillary sphere, trigonometry, Hipparchus, parallax effect, heliometer telescope, 61 Cygni, Astrographic Catalogue, Space Age, Milky Way galaxy, white dwarf stars, Kepler space telescope, Hubble's constant, quadrants, sextants, astronomy,

From Hipparchus to Gaia, the Story of Finding Our Place Among Billions of Stars

Jatan Mehta 27/02/2019

Although astrometry is over 2,200 years old, it wasn't...