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Indian cities are being shorn of trees

31 March 2016 3:26 AM IST
Findings of a new Indian Institute of Science study that used satellite-borne sensors, compared images over decades and modelled past and future...

Defence infrastructure still not adequate

31 March 2016 3:23 AM IST
Nepal and China have just signed ten agreements. One of these is on extending the existing railway line from Tibet to Nepal “to boost connectivity”....

Why we cannot ignore the poor

31 March 2016 3:22 AM IST
Some fortnights ago, I had discussed the issue of poverty and environment. I had then said that the question today is not whether the poor are...

Death of a Salesman aka Dentist

31 March 2016 3:20 AM IST
About two decades ago, as reporters covering the crime beat, we had gone to the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police of North-East district,...

Why India’s governance frontlines are cash starved

30 March 2016 4:59 AM IST
Between 2010 and 2015, funding shortfalls to local governments nationwide—rural and urban—were as high as half the sanctioned amount and annual...

Taking the scientific world by storm

30 March 2016 4:56 AM IST
The UK government recently gave permission to Kathy Niakan, a researcher at the Francis Crick Institute, London, to use a controversial gene editing...

Finally, firm no to software patents

30 March 2016 4:53 AM IST
For years, there has been a guerrilla war on the patenting of software in India. While a clutch of organisations has been fighting against patenting...
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