Reforming the cyber nation

Book>> I know who you are and i saw what you did; social networks and the death of privacy • Free Press • US $26

Animal rights primer

Book>> Animal Rights: What Everyone Needs To Know • by Paul Waldau • OUP, New York • US $10.7

The back up man

BOOK>> MAGNIFICENT DESOLATION, THE LONG JOURNEY HOME FROM THE MOON • by Buzz Aldrin and Ken Abraham • Bloomsbury • Rs 750

The file drawer bust

Daniele Fanelli, researcher at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, probes the problem of quantity versus quality in scientific research. …

Unusually warm winters, post-monsoon season: DTE analyses IMD report on 2023 as India’s second warmest year ever

All five of India’s warmest years have occurred within the last 14 years; 12 of 13 Himalayan states were 2-4°C warmer than normal …

Coronavirus update: Delhi Metro resumes even as India keeps adding more than 90,000 cases a day

India added 90,802 new cases in the last 24 hours, overtakes Brazil in total case tally

Fight for land

From stricter land laws to revising domicile rules, Uttarakhand residents demand government action to stop the sale of agricultural land to …

Much in a name

Online Review>> Court Verdict • US

Sued for snooping

Telecommunication>> Government Surveillance • US

Real Hunger Games

Film>> Marketing Strategy • US

Rap for ad

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What gas

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Crude and wholesome

Whole plant of sweet wormwood more effective than its extract in treating malaria

Proof in the pee

Simple urine test can help identify Kawasaki disease

Sino-US trade war: Why China can’t win it

China has no future of becoming a game-changer and a lasting and trusted global leader

COVID-19: India, 57 other countries demand probe into WHO’s response

Draft resolution tabled for World Health Assembly starting on May 18

Tropical crops at risk from pollinator loss due to climate change, shift in land use, finds study

Number of insects that pollinate tropical plants declined by 61%

COVID-19: How useful are travel restrictions in curbing spread?

Travel bans make sense only in the beginning of a pandemic, say experts

COVID-19 impacted global migration trend in 2020: UN report

The number of emigrants increased to 281 million in 2020 from 272 million in 2019

Pentagon report says UFOs can't be explained, and this admission is a big deal

The report does not, as many were hoping, conclude UFOs are alien spacecraft.

January 2021 ninth-warmest month for US on record: NOAA

Below-average precipitation experienced in several regions; peak ice coverage declined

COVID-19 underlines medicine interdependency, which is not good: Experts

Countries must come out of global value chain and become self-dependent, they said

Farmers want Modi to avoid unfair trade deals with Trump

Expresses concern over possible access of US agri products to Indian markets

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Europe’s Kafkaesque progress on climate action

The European Green New Deal is a pale imitation of the American original

Earthquake of magnitude 7.3 strikes southeast of Philippines

Such high-magnitude earthquakes at that depth are rare in the Philippines