Month: February 2021

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Indian Academy of Sciences Opposes MEA’s Restrictions on Online Seminars

The Wire Staff 17/02/2021

In a letter to the Union education minister, IAS...

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India Reports Presence of SARS-CoV-2 Variants First Found in South Africa, Brazil

Reuters 17/02/2021

The variants originating from Brazil and South Africa can...

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More Fun Than Fun: What Can We Learn from Insect Societies?

Raghavendra Gadagkar 17/02/2021

Do we really want to be so against nature...

Michael T. Jones clicked in May, 2013. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Jarle Naustvik

Bidding Goodbye To Michael Jones, the Man Who Gave the World ‘Google Earth’

Anusuya Datta 16/02/2021

Michael Jones spent more than a decade in senior...

FILE PHOTO: A nurse displays a vial of COVISHIELD, the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India, in Mumbai

UK Auditing Indian Vaccine Site Amid Scramble for Shots

Neha Arora, Krishna N. Das and Euan Rocha 16/02/2021

Britain is auditing manufacturing processes at Serum Institute of...

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How Lack of Internet Access Is Limiting Vaccine Availability for the World’s Minorities

Tamra Burns Loeb, AJ Adkins-Jackson and Arleen F. Brown 16/02/2021

While online health services can be used to increase...

A crow sits on a barricade in front of India Gate amidst smog in New Delhi

Urban Air Quality Less Improved by COVID Lockdowns Than First Believed

Thin Lei Win 16/02/2021

While nitrogen dioxide levels in the air decreased due...