Midday meal may be outsourced

Schools in Maharashtra do not want responsibility, say the scheme hampers teaching

Noteworthy

Santhal trio pulls right strings to keep alive a dying tradition

Fatal fever spreads to cities

Scrub typhus fever is fast spreading from rural areas to urban regions

Dragon lands on ostrich egg

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Treasure in your trash

Oldest calendar

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Come alive with gundruk

Dried-mustard-leaves soup to beat the monsoon blues

Marine marvels

Film>> Oceans • Australia

Now a papaya-clay filter

The hybrid clay filter could be the cost-effective answer to water purification

Jumbo alert

SMS-based alert system can drastically cut human-elephant conflicts

Time for climate lesson

A Nepal school that imparts practical knowledge to farmers

Twister jam

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The child gives oceans a fever

The El Nino of 1997 affected sea surface temperatures over the Indian Ocean

Invasion triggers evolution

A study on lizards shows evolutionary change can occur swiftly when two closely related species compete

Immortal, yet going extinct

Despite the ability to regenerate its heart and brain, axolotl, an amphibian found only in Mexico, is close to extinction

Delhi's walking medicine bank

Omkar Nath Sharma has made it his vocation to collect unused medicines and distribute them to the poor

IPR course in school? It's silly

Promoting the study of intellectual property rights without focusing on innovation is so misplaced that it's laughable

Yamilicious!

During her visit to Indore, Aparna Pallavi tickles her taste buds with crispy fried purple yam or garadu and discovers the health benefits of the …

`Ancient Indian literature displays exact knowledge of environmental phenomena'

Retired diplomat and well-known translator of ancient Sanskrit texts, Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar recently released the reprint of his …

Traditionally sumptuous

Multigrain food is not new. It has been part of the Indian diet since ancient times and comes in multitude of combinations

Pesky pets

One of the first species domesticated by man, the pigeon is now an invasive species and a pest in many parts of the world

Antibiotic for superbugs

Teixobactin, the first antibiotic announced in decades, successfully treats mice infected with superbug Staphylococcus aureus

`Irresponsible reportage can harm business'

Vishal Nath, director, National Research Centre for Litchi (NRCL), says there is no scientific evidence to prove that acute encephalitis syndrome (…

Ferment food for the gut

Almost all communities in India have festivals that revolve around stale food high on probiotics

A deadly virus of patenting

A Dutch institute's patent application on the MERS virus raises concerns about public health