Who flew?

Is influenza afflicting government?

The fall of the golden spice

Famines in India are a nightmare of the past

A WHO study notes that While India has achieved impressive levels in food production, equitable distribution is still a distant dream. Chronic …

Rat chronicles

The tiny rodents that most people link only to pestilence and crop destruction have fascinated Ishwar Prakash -- one of that rare breed: a rat …

Will milk fortification benefit the poor?

Lean pastures

Drought and a viral disease strike Jaisalmer’s livestock. Kurush Canteenwala finds out how the herders are coping

Why India remains malnourished

Despite a fast-growing economy and the largest anti-malnutrition programme, India has the world’s worst level of child malnutrition. The …

Ebola unleashed

The deadly virus had long confined itself to the backwoods of Africa. Increasing deforestation has led to its frequent emergence as epidemics

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Vicious cycle

Cost of treating hypertension itself leads to stress

Cipla's audacious move

Why generics maker Cipla has asked government to revoke Novartis patent on respiratory ailment drug

How pure are their claims?

Market for water purifiers booms, but consumers cannot be sure of quality in absence of regulations

Science and Technology - Briefs

Breathing uneasy

Threat from occupational exposure to pollutants, especially to young children and pregnant women, is growing rapidly. There is no time for …

Unique replacement for fuelwood in Nagaland

Breathing easy

A hundred medicines, a dozen therapies but no cure, that is the story of asthma treatment world wide. Complementary medicine fill the vacuum

Kitchen strike for toilets

Women of a Maharashtra hamlet give husbands an ultimatum-build toilets or go without food

Infectious diseases bigger global threat than climate change: World Economic Forum report

5 of the top 10 risks in terms of impact and likelihood are, however, all environmental

आंत के बैक्टीरिया और विटामिन डी के बीच है घनिष्ठ संबंध: अध्ययन

शोधकर्ताओं ने बतया कि 12 विशेष प्रकार के बैक्टीरिया सक्रिय विटामिन डी के साथ पुरुषों के आंत में कई बार दिखाई दिए। उनमें से ...

Agronomic recommendations: How are antibiotics being used on crops?

A few antibiotics considered critically important for human medicine are being recommended for use on over 100 crops, an analysis has found

Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens like coronavirus jump species

Within markets like the one in Wuhan, there are abundant opportunities for the type of interactions that promote pathogen transmission among species

वायु प्रदूषण से हर तीन मिनट में एक बच्चे की मौत, राजस्थान सबसे ऊपर

एक अध्ययन में बताया गया है कि देश में प्रति तीन मिनट एक बच्चा अपने निचले फेफड़े के संक्रमण(एलआरआई) के कारण मौत के मुंह ...

What the toxic air did to Delhites

Down To Earth talks to doctors to get a sense of the ailments that residents of NCR are exposed to

South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle ‘hidden hunger’

Belo Horizonte provides a noteworthy example of how innovative, integrated food and nutrition security policies can assist communities

Government schools encouraging healthier lifestyles: study

The onset of many lifestyle or non-communicable diseases can be prevented or delayed by addressing these risk factors earlier in life