Month: August 2021

A farmer walks through a paddy field at Tannaurah village in Punjab

New Govt Data Points To Dangerous Groundwater Pollution in Punjab

Vivek Gupta 22/08/2021

More than half of Punjab's districts have reported dangerous...

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Approval of Coal With Higher Ash Content Based on Technical Study: Centre to NGT

The NGT took note of the submission and disposed...

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We Can’t Just Assume the Pandemic, Climate Change and Other Crises Will Work Out

Louise Fabiani 21/08/2021

Believing as a matter of course that everything will...

FILE PHOTO: Used syringes lie discarded in a bin after they were used to administer the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Mumbai

India Grants Zydus Cadila’s Needle-Free COVID Vaccine ‘Emergency Use Approval’

ZyCoV-D is India's first vaccine to be administered to...

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Sackler Dynasty: A Searing Portrait of Greed From the Pharmaceutical Industry

Mohammad Anas 21/08/2021

'An Empire of Pain' by Patrick R. Keefe takes...

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When It Comes To Digitising Healthcare – It’s the Government, Silly

Swami Subramaniam and Aparajithan Srivathsan 21/08/2021

For too long, the Indian government has stood back...

Geraldo, from Munduruku tribe poses for a picture during a four-day pow wow in Piaracu village, in Xingu Indigenous Park, near Sao Jose do Xingu

Brazil’s Munduruku Tribe Haunted by Mercury’s Deadly Threat

Jimin Kang 21/08/2021

The relaxing of environmental controls under President Jair Bolsonaro...