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Moderna strikes with a new lawsuit

Moderna is trying to be gatekeeper for the mRNA platform for future drug development, raising monopolistic fears

Cost of credit

Information accessed by Down To Earth under the Right To Information Act belies the government's claim that banks give farm loans without any service charge or mortgaging farmer's land

Invisibilisation of Dalit scholars

A PERSON READING CASTE AND PARTITION IN BENGAL: THE STORY OF DALIT REFUGEES, 1946-1961 WOULD THINK THAT DALITS HAVE NEVER DONE A CASTE ANALYSIS OF PARTITION, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE

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Millet might

Odisha's mission to bring millets back to its fields and plates can succeed with greater marketing support and promotion beyond tribal areas

Africa's clarion call for climate justice

IT WAS highly symbolic that Gabon, which commits to remain carbon neutral up to and beyond 2050, hosted the Africa Climate Week, the last major talks before the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is held in Egypt this November to implement the Paris Agreement.

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Planetary summer

Prolonged droughts and heat waves are wreaking havoc across continents. Europe may have reached the point of no return

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PERILS IN A DEFINITION

The country's Supreme Court is tasked with deciding whether political parties should be restricted from promising freebies in election campaigns and manifestos. But the debate is not so simple

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OZONE ON FIRE

Frequent, widespread forest fires in a warming world are the new threats to the ozone layer

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A Covid-19 Encore With Monkeypox

A familiar pattern is emerging in the battle against monkeypox with the US and Europe grabbing scarce vaccine supplies

A question of sales

Natural farming practices have drastically reduced input costs, but Himachal Pradesh's farmers still lack market access

Model shift

Farmers in Zimbabwe are shifting from rain-fed to irrigation-based agriculture to beat erratic rains in a rapidly changing climate

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RESTRICTED IN GIR

Despite ample scientific evidence and a Supreme Court order to translocate lions from Gir forest of Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh's Kuno National Park, the shift to establish a second wild population has not happened

Churn under sea

SEAFLOOR SPREADING, CAUSED BY AN UPWELLING OF MAGMA, HAS LED TO EPISODES OF GLOBAL WARMING IN THE GEOLOGIC PAST. THE SPREAD RATE HAS SLOWED DOWN IN LAST 19 MILLION YEARS, BUT COULD GATHER MOMENTUM

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

The plastic problem needs to be reframed. The issue is not just how plastic waste is disposed of, but also how the material enters the supply chain and for whose benefit. India cannot end plastic pollution until it holds the petrochemical behemoths and the plastic industry accountable for manufacturing the menace

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All zeros and ones

The ability to capture, store and model data is fuelling the technologies associated with the fourth industrial revolution, which many believe will lead to a future owned by corporations

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Freedom fuel

Pune entrepreneur experiments with cooking devices powered by solar and biomass to beat rising LPG prices

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Capital owners

PROPERTIES OF RENT IS ABOUT THE TENSION BETWEEN RAPIDLY CHANGING ECONOMIC REALITIES AND THE PARALLEL ATTEMPTS BY COMMUNITIES TO HOLD ON TO KINSHIP ASSOCIATIONS, AS WELL AS TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF RESPECT AND HONOUR

IDENTIFY AND MANAGE ANXIETY THROUGH ASTROLOGY AND PALMISTRY

Akila S Murthy is an Astrology Consultant with an M.A (Astrology), M.Sc.(Psychological Counselling and Family Therapy), PGDI (Psychological Counselling), M.A (International Education) She also spreads awareness about Astrology, Palmistry and Psychology through her YouTube channel and Facebook page. "Psychology and Palmistry with Akila Murthy" https://www.facebook.com/akilasmurthy (25 short articles)

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DETERMINING CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH BY JAIMINI'S ARUDHA LAGNA

Dr. Nemani Venkata Raghunatha Rao is from Parvatipuram (Near Vizag), India and lives in San Francisco, USA. He has been practicing Vedic Astrology since 2002. A doctorate in Business Management by profession. His Jyotish Teachers are: H. Ramadas Rao, Pt. Sanjay Rath, Pt. Dakshinamoorthy Ramasamy,Swami Omkar and Madhu Babu Prakhya. He has received Jyotish Visharada from the Council of Vedic Astrology (CVA), USA and he can be reached via email : RaoN1008@gmail.com.

REMEMBERING DR. B. V. RAMAN'S SON SRI SURYA PRAKASH

It is hard to believe that Sri Surya Prakash, eldest son of Dr. B. V. Raman left us fifty nine years ago. The name and the memory of a handsome youth, college athlete, sportsman of high ability and above all a remarkable astrology scholar remains ever fresh among the astrological fraternity.

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WHAT ASTROLOGY HAS TAUGHT ME

Shirdi Nath Tekur is a retired aerospace engineer from HAL and an adviser with Tata Consultancy Services. After obtaining Jyothish Visharad from ICAS, he has been teaching astrology at ICAS, Bangalore, and later, Bharatiya Jyothisha Sansthan for over 25 years.

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