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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...

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...

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India Watches Silently as a Battle to Control the Internet Unfolds

Arun Mohan Sukumar 22/05/2015

Internet governance as practiced by ICANN has been prone...

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Here’s why the India, China Statement on Climate Change is a Big Deal

Chandrashekhar Dasgupta 17/05/2015

Nothing is permanent in world affairs but the joint...