External Affairs

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, India. Credit: IAEA, CC-BY-SA

How American Penalties Dwarf the Liability US Nuclear Firms Will Face in India

Amit Bhandari 21/02/2016

A $48-billion (Rs 3.26 lakh crore) penalty claimed by...

India has for long been a breeding ground for mosquitoes and mosquito-carried diseases, and so its authorities should be on the alert for a possible Zika virus invasion in the near future. A mosquito. Credit: turkletom/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

The Things We Don’t Know About Zika Virus, But Should, Could Make it Deadlier

Deepak Natarajan 29/01/2016

The Zika virus has considerable potential to penetrate our...

Aedes aegypti. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

All You Need to Know About the Zika Virus

Nandita Jayaraj 27/01/2016

India is one of the Aedes aegyptis’s many homes...

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The Two Trials of Adlène Hicheur, Scientist, Muslim, Forever Suspect

Shobhan Saxena and Florencia Costa 20/01/2016

A brilliant scientist from CERN, accused of association with...

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Whatever Happens Next, This is What COP21 Lets Us Do Against Climate Change

Anjali Vaidya 17/12/2015

The Paris Agreement has been signed, as of Saturday...

If we delay the first stock-taking to 2023, the consequences will be perilous for India and other poor nations in the bottom half of the world. Credit: spinster cardigan/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Ten Inconvenient Truths About the Paris Climate Accord

Surya P. Sethi 16/12/2015

1. The Paris Agreement has deftly crafted language to...

An art installation by artist Isaac Cordal in Montreal, 2015. Source: Facebook page

The Paris Agreement is a Good Instrument – if 55 States are Able to Ratify it By 2017

Mrinalini Shinde 15/12/2015

The Paris Agreement is structured in a way that...