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Swine flu sweeps through
18 Feb 2015 10:13 PM GMTSwine flu has spread in India like never before this year, leaving behind a trail of human casualties. More than 600 people have died from...
Superbugs immune to antibiotics
31 Jan 2015 11:38 PM GMTFor nearly a century, bacteria-fighting drugs called antibiotics have been saving millions of lives across the world. But, in recent decades, several...
Big push to generate solar power
16 Jan 2015 10:18 PM GMTIndia has embarked upon utopian goals and mega dreams. It wants to become the hub of global investment and manufacturing and plans to create 100 smart...
Fog continues to elude scientists
5 Jan 2015 10:57 PM GMTEarly mornings in the month of December witnesses delays in rail traffic and flights. Vehicles grope for ways and agricultural activity gets affected...
Engineering smart cities, with a heart
19 Dec 2014 11:35 PM GMTAs India moves ahead with building 100 smart cities, erecting safe and well-organised infrastructure will strengthen the foundation of its economy; it...
Bhopal’s toxic legacy still haunts
3 Dec 2014 10:30 PM GMTIt was a cold shivery Monday morning this day, thirty years ago. As I entered my workplace, news had trickled in from Bhopal about a gas leak from a...
Revolutionise smart city transportation
21 Nov 2014 9:31 PM GMTAs traffic cops and planners tear their hairs apart, making torturous efforts each day to control the mindless explosion of vehicles on roads across...
Energising smart cities, a tall order
7 Nov 2014 10:17 PM GMTIndia has at last woken up to the concept of smart cities and is gearing up to develop 100 such settlements. The programme is to be implemented in 22...
Immunising India: daunting task
25 Oct 2014 11:19 PM GMTDiseases impair the normal state of a human being interrupting or modifying its vital functions. None, especially children, is immune from them. Right...
Can India be swept clean?
10 Oct 2014 11:00 PM GMTThe trumpet blast, with which the prime minister launched the Clean India Campaign, on October 2, is history in news pages. But the government aspires...
Between river and religion
26 Sep 2014 10:49 PM GMTMillions of devotees throng the Ganges for holy dips and worship every year leaving behind massive loads of pollutants. Religious fervour and...
Dangerous roadside delights
13 Sep 2014 9:42 PM GMTThese are eyesores dotting urban spaces and cannot be banished. Street foods are a way and part of our lives; they provide a medium for integrating...