A plant breeder comes into his own

Awards are finally coming to K Vinod Prabhu, 54, a plant breeder, for his work on building resistance in wheat, mustard and rice through the …

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Viral flight

Bird flu reported among wild migratory birds in China

Give native knowledge its due place

ICDS gets packaged food for the malnourished

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Drugged by chicken

Antibiotics in meat make disease-causing bacteria resistant to cures

Future shock

As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-…

Beware, dangerous pollutants are spooking your air

Pollution levels in major north Indian cities are either 'very poor' or 'severe'

Protests at Bihar asbestos unit

Deaths, diseases, skin ailments are common, complain residents

Moneymakers

Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness

Beijing's Green Olympics

A black countdown in West Bengal, India

Bytes

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World Zoonoses Day: Changing our relationship with animals to avoid another pandemic

Growing severity of COVID-19 is compelling us to re-think ways to reduce transmission risk of emerging diseases from animals to humans

Elderly & lonely

India has more elderly people than ever before. Most of them have little social security and cannot afford healthcare. While the government seems …

Great Man's distortion

How we came to fear saturated fat

US authority approves more efficacious hepatitis C drug

Sofosbuvir's prohibitive cost will put it out of reach of most patients in developing countries, including India

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Science & Technology - Briefs

Bad feed

New lands of the free

New lands of the fat?

Land of the Free