External Affairs

Agriculture in India. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Get Wired 11/6: Doubling Farmer Suicides, SAIL Chief Waved By, New HIV Sensors and More

Vaishali Rathore and Ayush Ranka 11/06/2015

Maharasthra’s farmer suicides double in two months In Maharashtra,...

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Get Wired 10/6: Funds Off for NGOs, S’pore Okays Maggi, Buddha in Bamiyan and More

Vaishali Rathore and Ayush Ranka 10/06/2015

Congress hits out at Modi government The Congress party...

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Get Wired 6/6: Soil Toxins & Maggi, Ishrat Cop Back, Joshi Takes Dig at Modi Project and More

Vaishali Rathore and Ayush Ranka 06/06/2015

1. Industrial toxins behind Maggi’s lead content? The Food...

HIV positive t-shirts have been distributed to reduce the stigma attached to the disease. This would have been unthinkable 30 years ago. Credit: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters

AIDS: What Drove Three Decades of Acronyms and Avatars?

Carla Tsampiras, University of Cape Town 04/06/2015

It was on June 5, 1981, that the first...

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Kofi Annan Urges Bangladesh Not to Lower Minimum Age

The Wire Staff 28/05/2015

A few weeks ago, the Bangladeshi Cabinet approved a...

A family at the entrance to a typical petrocasa in Venezuela. Credit: gob.ve

Petro-ghar, an Oil-House for India that Withstood Superstorm Sandy

Supriyo Chatterjee 23/05/2015

Petrocasas could be incorporated into the national disaster management...

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

Where Will Nuclear Power Plants of the Future Be Built?

Paul Dorfman 22/05/2015

What was once seen as a futuristic source of...