A still from ‘Don’t Look Up’. Source: Netflix Every disaster movie seems to open with a scientist being ignored. Don’t Look Up is no exception – in fact, people ignoring or flat out denying scientific evidence is the point. Leonardo…

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday, in an interim order, allowed the resumption of medical counselling for NEET-PG admissions for the year 2021-22, and upheld the validity of 27% OBC and 10% economically weaker sections quotas. A bench…

Photo: Kevin Kandlbinder/Unsplash On November 15, 2021, the Indian government notified a change in the country’s post-mortem protocols; the new protocol allows for post-mortem procedures to be conducted after sunset. Before this, autopsies…

Sarus cranes. Photo: Ad031259/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0 Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has directed the Maharashtra government to come up with a joint action plan with the Union government for preservation and…

Healthcare workers wait for a vehicle at a COVID-19 testing clinic in Sydney, December 30, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Nikki Short As the omicron variant rages across the US, new cases per day have more than tripled over the last two weeks,…

Photo: kiwi thompson/Unsplash More than a year has passed since the novel coronavirus began wreaking its havoc. In this time, we have read about, and encountered, chilling accounts of people displaying severe symptoms like fever and…

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes. Photo: Fortune Global Forum/Flickr, CC BY NC ND 2.0 Experts said Theranos’s meteoric rise and spectacular fall should be a reminder to investors to ensure that technologists’ claims are backed by real science.…

An ampoule of remdesivir is pictured at a news conference in Hamburg, Germany, April 2020. Photo: Ulrich Perrey/Pool via Reuters COVID-19 patients suffered debilitating side-effects after receiving multiple batches of remdesivir…

An employee at Serum Institute of India removes vials of Covishield from a visual inspection machine inside a lab, March 2021. Photo: Reuters/Francis Mascarenhas The DCGI recently approved the vaccines Covovax and Corbevax and the antiviral…

Image: PIRO4D/pixabay New Delhi: On January 5, India recorded the first confirmed death linked to the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus after test samples obtained a man in Udaipur, who died last week, showed the presence of the…

People shop at a crowded market in the old quarters of Delhi, January 4, 2022. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi The omicron variant of the novel coronavirus has driven an exponential rise in the number of cases in the country. It is certain that…

A medic collects a swab sample from a passenger for a COVID-19 test at a railway station in Bhopal, January 4, 2022. Photo: PTI New Delhi: In the last 24 hours, India has reported an increase of 42,174 new infections of the novel…

A still from Don’t Look Up. Source: Netflix What if stopping a disaster wasn’t the hardest part? What if the hardest part was convincing anyone to even bother trying? In a reversal of the prevailing liberal narrative since 2016, it’s the…

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Photo: Twitter/@ArvindKejriwal New Delhi: Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating at home. The chief minister urged people who came…

Supreme Court of India. Photo: PTI New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Wednesday a plea related to the economically weaker section (EWS) quota in NEET-PG admissions, after the Union government sought urgent hearing in the…

Photo: Ivan Bandura/Unsplash The global conversation about climate change has revolved largely around a single, misguided idea: that we can replace carbon-intensive technologies with cleaner ones and reach the goal of net zero greenhouse…

A general view of Band-e Amir National Park in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, December 23, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Ali Khara Bamiyan, Afghanistan: The winter landscape around the deep, blue mountain lakes of Band-e-Amir in the central Afghan province…

A health worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine to a teenager in Kanyakumari, January 3, 2022. Photo: PTI The health ministry has said 42 lakh people aged 15-18 years received their first COVID-19 shot dose on January 3 – the first day of…

A view of Ama Dablam in eastern Nepal. Photo: Ben Lowe/Unsplash In a new study, researchers analysed ice loss from 14,798 Himalayan glaciers since the Little Ice Age, 400-700 years ago. They found that the rate of loss in the last few…

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal walks among a row of oxygen cylinders in Delhi. Photo: PTI New Delhi: The national capital on Monday reported 4,099 new Covid cases, 28% more than on Sunday, and one death due to the disease as the…

A medic collects samples from a person with physical disability for COVID-19 rapid antigen testing amid the complete bi-weekly lockdown to curb COVID-19 spread, in Kolkata, Saturday, August 8, 2020. Photo: PTI/Swapan Mahapatra Kolkata: Over…

A waterlogged road in Chennai following the rain on December 30, 2021. Photo: PTI Chennai received an immense amount of rainfall on December 30 – about 180 mm in a day. But the IMD had only predicted moderate rainfall. Climate experts said…

A health worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a beneficiary in Patna, December 31, 2021. Photo: PTI Patna: COVID-19 continued its gallop across Bihar on Sunday as 352 new cases, 71 more than the previous day’s figure, were…

‘A Virgin with a Unicorn’ by Domenico Zampieri, c. 1602. Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain Those seeking “evidence” that the Indo-Aryans were native sons of Bharat Mata, and not immigrants from western Eurasia, just can’t stay away…

Image: American Museum of Natural History With the appreciation that diet is the most influential factor shaping our gut microbiome, more affluent people are now moving away from junk food and making healthier food choices. The impact of…

A health worker shows empty vials of Covishield at a vaccination centre in Jammu, December 29, 2021. Photo: PTI India’s adult COVID-19 vaccination drive has been carried through by just one vaccine, Covishield – a situation that has…

This article is part of an ongoing debate published in The Wire on the events at Auroville. Read the first article here and the response to it here. Auroville residents sit on JCBs to prevent work authorised by the Auroville Foundation for…

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines lying in a tray. Photo: Mat Napo/Unsplash In July 2021, the WHO reported that 450,000 donated doses across eight African countries had expired before they could be administered. This is a…

Dr Manish (fourth from right) speaks at the FORDA press conference at Safdarjung Hospital, December 31, 2021. Photo: Banjot Kaur/The Wire Science New Delhi: The Federation of Resident Doctors’ Association (FORDA) called off its protests in…

A waterlogged road in Chennai following rains on December 30, 2021. Photo: PTI New Delhi: Heavy rains in Tamil Nadu on Thursday, December 30, led to waterlogging, congestion on the roads and three deaths due to rain-related electrocutions,…