Health

Nidhi Singh. Credit: Aashima Dogra

Plotting Climate Change and Diarrhoea in Varanasi

Aashima Dogra 22/11/2016

Nidhi Singh, a researcher at Banaras Hindu University, wants...

Public toilets in Varanasi. Credit: Jorge Royan, CC BY-SA

Why Is It Easier for India to Get to Mars Than to Tackle Its Toilet Challenge?

Shyama V. Ramani 20/11/2016

According to the Indian census of 2011, only 46.9%...

Worker fumigates along a street in Yangon, Myanmar November 18, 2016. Credit: Reuters/Soe Zeya Tun

Myanmar Struggles to Prepare For Possible Zika Outbreak

Shwe Yee Saw Myint 20/11/2016

The Ministry of Health's Than Htun Aung said measures...

Ticks being picked off (the person in this image is not P.K. Rajagopalan). Credit: P.K. Rajagopalan

The Seven-Decade Transnational Hunt for the Origins of the Kyasanur Forest Disease

Nithyanand Rao 19/11/2016

Zeroing in on the genesis of this strange disease...

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Increased Healthcare Spending Key to Economic Growth in India

Kenneth Thorpe 17/11/2016

In order to achieve universal health coverage, India must...

Listen: The Drug-Resistant Superbug That May Have Taken a Flight from India to Paris

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 16/11/2016

Multi-drug resistant bacteria are growing more powerful each day...

Bags of trash collected from Fukushima prefecture, Japan, in 2013. Credit: vannispen/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Opponents of India-Japan Nuclear Agreement Ask Modi to Visit Fukushima First

Jyotsna Singh 13/11/2016

"The Indian government stands on the wrong side of...