West Bengal

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COVID-19 Risk: Kolkata Hospital Fails to Protect Staff, Test Patients

Divya Guha 25/04/2020

At the Kolkata Medical College and Hospital, 17 healthcare...

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What Mahalanobis Got Right About National Identity – and the BJP Gets Wrong

Abhinav Srinivasan 26/01/2020

Like Mahalanobis, the current government mistakenly believes that a...

groundwater contamination, arsenic, arsenic contamination, uranium, uranium contamination,atta, wheat flour, rice, rice cultivation, Bihar, Patna, heavy metal toxicity, lung cancer, cancer risk, gall bladder cancer, West Bengal, drinking water, irrigation water,

Trouble: In Parts of Bihar, the Amount of Arsenic in Atta Is on the Rise

Sarah Iqbal 30/12/2019

Scientists are tracking arsenic contamination in various food items...

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Cyclone ‘Bulbul’ Makes Landfall, Two Deaths Reported

The cyclone is set to weaken gradually as it...

Indian National Science Academy, women in STEM, women in science, Chandrima Shaha, Sudipta Sengupta, structural geology, Jadavpur University, West Bengal, Durga, Kolkata, Antarctica expedition, Antarctica, Kargil, Tenzing Norgay, Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, GPS, Maria Klenova, Eleanor Roosevelt, Aditi Pant,

Sudipta Sengupta’s Journey in Geology to the Ends of the Earth

Aishwarya Tripathi 02/11/2019

The government established the Geological Survey of India in...

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IIT Kharagpur Team Devises One-Rupee Test to Measure Haemoglobin Levels

Sangya Chatterjee 24/09/2019

A new device created with a novel fabrication technique...

Himalaya, food security, food insecurity, land degradation, land use change, rain-fed agriculture, Hindu Kush Himalaya, HKH region, Nepal, Bhutan, Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, dryland, COP14, desertification, UNCCD, Food and Agriculture Organization, urbanisation, sustainable development goals,

Climate Change: People of Asia’s Mountains Face Severe Food Insecurity

Nivedita Khandekar 19/09/2019

In only five years since 2012, the rural mountain...