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Swine flu sweeps through
19 Feb 2015 3:43 AM ISTSwine 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
1 Feb 2015 5:08 AM ISTFor 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
17 Jan 2015 3:48 AM ISTIndia 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
6 Jan 2015 4:27 AM ISTEarly 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
20 Dec 2014 5:05 AM ISTAs 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
4 Dec 2014 4:00 AM ISTIt 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
22 Nov 2014 3:01 AM ISTAs 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
8 Nov 2014 3:47 AM ISTIndia 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
26 Oct 2014 4:49 AM ISTDiseases 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?
11 Oct 2014 4:30 AM ISTThe 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
27 Sept 2014 4:19 AM ISTMillions of devotees throng the Ganges for holy dips and worship every year leaving behind massive loads of pollutants. Religious fervour and...
Dangerous roadside delights
14 Sept 2014 3:12 AM ISTThese 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...