Year: 2021

View shows a barrage after a part of a glacier broke away and caused glacial flood, in Chormi village

How Work on the Char Dham Highway Battered a Himalayan Landscape

Anindya Sarkar 08/02/2021

As work on the Char Dham highway barrels on,...

Rescue team members work outside a tunnel after a part of a glacier broke away and caused flood in Tapovan

In Uttarakhand Disaster, the Handiwork of Climate Change Is Unmistakable

Joydeep Gupta, Varsha Singh and Soumya Sarkar 08/02/2021

As the world warms and glaciers retreat faster, the...

COVID-19 vaccination drive begins at AIIMS in Delhi

Govt Refutes Causal Link Between Candidate Vaccine Shots, Health Worker Deaths

The Wire Staff 08/02/2021

A group of public health experts wrote to Union...

FILE PHOTO: CureVac's experimental COVID-19 vaccine is given to a volunteer in clinical trials

Britain To Work With Germany’s CureVac on Vaccines Against Coronavirus Variants

Reuters 08/02/2021

For CureVac, the alliance marks another move to catch...

Members of Indo-Tibetan Border Police search for survivors after a Himalayan glacier broke and swept away a small hydroelectric dam, in Chormi

Why We Already Know the Rishi Ganga Flood Was a ‘Sooner or Later’ Event

C.P. Rajendran 08/02/2021

There should be no doubt that the Chamoli disaster...

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Union Budget 2021 and the Spirit of Public Health

Dr Sylvia Karpagam 07/02/2021

India is yet to be blessed with a government...

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Uttarakhand Disaster: 125 People Reported Missing, Rishiganga Project Destroyed

The Wire Staff 07/02/2021

Evacuations and search-and-rescue operations are underway.