Internet in a Sachet

Former TRAI chief R S Sharma argues India should allow pay-as-you-go Wi-Fi sachets at Re 1, like shampoo sachets, to fix last-mile connectivity a...

GM Crop, Unchecked Field

Editorial warns against unregulated GM mustard and Bt brinjal hybrids reaching farmers, citing Rs 2,000-3,500 crore herbicide market and failure of pu...

Orangutans On The Run

As Indonesia battles its worst forest fires in years, 46 orangutans have been rescued since August, many with burned palms, fleeing fires worsened by ...

Mirror Breakthrough: Nobel For Chirality

French-Japanese duo's Chemistry Nobel for controlling mirrored molecules is not abstract science; it is the key to safer drugs and cheaper agrochemica...

Nobel Medicine 2026

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win Nobel Medicine 2026 for optogenetics - using algal proteins that react to light to switch brain ce...

Count Every Cancer

Supreme Court asks 19 states to make cancer notifiable. If implemented, India will finally know where cancer is, who it hits, and why our response is ...

When Elephants Self - Prescribe

From orangutans to chimpanzees, zoopharmacognosy is known. Now African elephants in Kenya are found eating specific barks and clays when sick - knowle...

3,832 Children, A 2027 Promise

India wants zero leprosy transmission by 2027. But 3,832 children infected in 2025-26, many already disabled, shows the bacteria is still spreading si...

Newborn Genome Shield

Free newborn screening at LNJP, in more hospitals soon. Delhi govt's Mission ANMOL screens 56 genetic diseases, 14,000 samples monthly, aims to catch...