Soak pit revolution: two villages in Mewat treat their own wastewater

The treated water recharges aquifers

Frozen for reuse

Reclaiming water

Cane fumes

Mills of Gorakhpur grind slowly, but they grind too fine

Water business

Drug pricing body puts cap on trade margin for 42 anti-cancer drugs

Experts say move will not benefit patients as drug prices are already too high and the cap only negligible

Urban shit: where does it all go?

India is staring at a big sanitation crisis and needs to reinvent its excreta disposal mechanism

Filling in the gaps

A team of French scientists comprising biologists, chemists and geologists have got together to study landfill sites. They are evolving a new …

The precarious geopolitics of phosphorous

Both nitrogen and phosphorous are essential to life. Lynchpins both to global food production, circulating through synthesis or export and then …

In a first, immunotherapy that pulls HIV virus out of hiding to kill it

Latest findings offer relief to HIV-positive patients taking medicines daily

Ganga returns to its sluggish, dirty state

Kumbh over, freshwater release is discontinued; tanneries resume operations

Waste, by any other name...

US municipalities to abolish rights of corporations

Pasteurisation inactivates SARS-CoV-2 virus in breast milk: Study

Cold storage of human milk having the virus did not significantly impact infectious viral load over a 48-hour period, the study found 

COVID-19: Can cotton wear allow better vitamin D synthesis

Vitamin D deficiency makes people more susceptible to COVID-19; countries with high levels of vitamin D deficiency reported higher mortality …

‘Pay Rajasthan farmers for losses due to soil pollution’

Committee set up by NGT finds ‘green tinge’ in effluents discharged into river Bandi; notes distress to farmers

Green tribunal orders enquiry on Jodhpur industrial sludge

About 10,000 odd industries in and around the city are dumping waste in river tributary, alleges petition

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AMR Awareness Week: Subscription-based economic model can help unblock pipeline for new antibiotics

At present, drug development is only profitable if combination of prices and sales volumes is sufficiently high

A gene mutation may help explain why some don’t fall sick from COVID-19

Findings could pave the way for new vaccines, drugs for SARS-CoV2

Coronavirus update: 25 of 36 states / UTs record daily increase in cases

No decrease in number of deaths due to COVID-19 in any state

Sewage treatment wetland in making

IARI develops wetlands that treat sewage water for irrigation

Private doctors strike work to protest proposed legislation

Supreme Court notice to Indian Medical Association on plea challenging strike

What should be done

Some key actions for the sustainable growth of the pulp and paper industry