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Screengrab from a YouTube video that accompanied Sooam's promotional campaign to have people clone their dead pets.

Many Tensions at Play as Chinese Cattle-cloning Factory Takes Shape

Nandita Jayaraj 02/12/2015

Last week's announcement that the world’s biggest cloning factory...

The 150+ heads of state in attendance on the first day of climate negotiations at the COP21 in Paris. Source: UNFCCC

Multiple Closed-door Meetings Make Smaller Nations Protest

Nitin Sethi 02/12/2015

India wants negotiations on one issue to not occupy...

Climate change will be felt more severely by the people forced to slip through the borders between the united nations. Credit: Anjali Vaidya

COP21 Diary: The United Nations, their Porous Borders and the People in Between

Anjali Vaidya 02/12/2015

Anjali Vaidya's day-2 dispatch from the COP21 in Paris...

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The Nuclear Liability Law Has Passed Its First Legal Test But There Will Be Others

Ritwika Sharma and Yashaswini Mittal 02/12/2015

Though the Kerala High Court has upheld the constitutionality...

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Why Swacch Bharat Type Schemes Will Fail in India

Markandey Katju 01/12/2015

Corruption at the implementation level will ensure that well...

PM Modi in Paris

COP21 Diary: A Ray of Sunshine, a Song of Despair

Anjali Vaidya 01/12/2015

Anjali Vaidya from Paris on the opening day of...

Leading up to COP21... Credit: mycieau/Flickr, CC BY-ND 2.0

US Confidential Note to Select Countries Sets the Terms for Talks

Nitin Sethi 29/11/2015

While all countries earlier agreed that the Paris agreement...