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Aid The Trade
While it will not be in anyone's interest to cut off foreign aid to Africa, it is clear that countries that receive such aid must show more responsibility.
Resetting The Africa-Europe Relationship
Africa faces a broad range of development challenges and overcoming them will require huge sums of foreign aid and investment. But as Africa develops, its people will also need partners who recognise that there are mutual benefits to engaging with the continent's mobile and highly-educated base of human capital.
Superficial Embrace?
Sikkim government legalises the tradition of adopting trees, but remains silent over people's rights over them.
We Let Them Die
Failure of states to provide basic nutrition and health facilities has led to the death of hundreds of children from the preventable acute encephalopathy syndrome. BANJOT KAUR from Bihar and SHAGUN KAPIL from Uttar Pradesh report
Importance Of Nothing
IT IS NEITHER A LUXURY NOR A WASTE OF TIME, BUT A NECESSARY PART OF MEANINGFUL THOUGHT AND SPEECH
Why Did My Children Die?
BY THE time doctors landed in our village for the first time, our village had already lost 11 children to chamki (a yet-unknown type of acute encephalopathy syndrome) fever.
Done By The Daily Fix
In the absence of guidelines, organic waste management in Indian cities is at the mercy of entrepreneurs offering instant solutions
Wings Of Change
SOME OF THE WORLD’S RAREST BIRDS ARE FOUND IN THE EASTERN HIMALAYAS. BUT A LOT OF FACTORS ARE PUTTING THEIR SURVIVAL AT RISK DEEPANWITA GITA NIYOGI
The Science Of Dishonesty
FALSIFICATION, FABRICATION AND PLAGIARISM OF RESEARCH HAVE FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES LAKSHMY RAMAKRISHNAN
Labelled Rabid
Most rabies deaths occur in India. Yet, the government is dragging its feet over controlling dog population, vaccinating them or even making enough shots available for victims
How To Fight Water Scarcity This Monsoon?
Though the monsoon is behaving erratically, drought-prone districts are still water rich
Curbing Patent Monopolies
The competition law is being used against drug patent holders to ensure they don't abuse their market power
Finger On The Pulse
Despite having immense nutritive and medicinal properties, the rice bean is a lesserknown pulse
Who Is Serving US GM Food
In a first-of-its-kind study in India, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) tested 65 food products available in the market to see if they contained genetically modified (GM) ingredients. To its horror, CSE found GM genes in 32 per cent of the products; almost 80 per cent of them imported. How did these products find their way into the country when food safety law prohibits the manufacture, import and sale of GM food? Who is to be blamed for this illegality?
Why Is India's Technical Education In Totters?
The National Medical Commission Act of 2019 is facing massive protests. Doctors and activists across the country say it will corporatise medical education and lower the quality of healthcare providers. The debate around the Act lays bare the problems that rankle all technical education institutes in the country, which hardly ensure quality education to the aspiring youth
The Curious Mind
The urge to look towards the sky stems from an intrinsic human curiosity emanating out of not just scientific but also existential queries
Arrival Of The Disruptors
A handful of billionaires are working hard to make space colonisation a reality. In the process they are reviving a sector that had stagnated for decades. Is this democratisation of space or a high-tech coup?
Burden Of Relief
The Union government’s decision to exempt captive power plants from meeting renewable energy targets will upset India’s climate change mitigation plan
Uncharted Territory
The next step involves sending humans to space and responding to the changing dynamics of global space business
Not To Visit, But To Inhabit
The human civilisation is going to relocate for the first time, a part of it at least
Hostile Space
A six-month stay in space induces physiological changes to the human body. A trip to Mars will be thrice that duration. Can astronauts survive the ordeal?
Are We There Yet?
Habitation designs and technologies are almost ready to make life possible in outer space
Orbits Of Debris
Space waste threatens the existence of all satellites
Are We Aliens?
There is a theory that says life could have intergalactic origin
Vale Of Apatanis
Surrounded by wooded hills in Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh is the small Apatani valley, covering 26 square kilometres.VIKAS CHOUDHARY spends over a week with the Apatani tribe, capturing their lives and landscape in photographs. STUART BLACKBURN, author of Into the Hidden Valley, a novel on the Apatanis, explains the social fabric and beliefs of the tribe.
Go Forage
One person's weed can be another person's green
Undetected Window
India cannot eradicate tuberculosis unless it treats the infection in cattle.
Sun Burnt
In a panic to meet its solar energy target Karnataka changed its policy. The move has almost destroyed the initiative.
Revenge Of The Rich
Trump's election reflects the anger of the rich who did not get richer. This inequity is also at the core of the climate change challenge.
A Sniff To Save
It can detect a person buried under six metres of snow. PERVEZ CAMA, who travelled to the Swiss Alps, traces the history of St Bernard, a dog groomed to rescue travellers, and now part of popular culture.