Surgical Anesthesia May Act As Greenhouse Gases, Contributing To Global Warming

Releases of anesthetic gases are beginning to accumulate in the earth’s atmosphere in increasing amounts, contributing on a small scale to climate change. According t...

Out With The Old…?

Our society has been in a constant flux for change. There is a greater adaptation afoot in a nation like India because of its many contradictions, complexities and voices. ...

A JUDICIAL MILESTONE

Last Sunday night, after the Roop Kanwar case, Bhanwar went back to another landmark in judicial history. The last jury trial in India. In the...

HISTORY?S GOLDEN AGE, RETOLD

The Mauryan Emperor?Ashoka, who ruled most of the?Ind...

From The Archive, 31 March 1995: First Ozone Hole Found Over Arctic

Meteorologists and atmospheric chemists have watched in alarm as a similarly explosive mixture to the Antarctic vortex has been assembled in the Arctic For the first time, ...

Water for sustainable development

In the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012 (Rio+20), water has been recognised as the key to achieving sustainable development as it is closely lin...

WHEN THEATRE MARRIES CINEMA

As I sat watching a CinePlay screening of the play sometimes, in a preview theatre, I was tad perplexed. Am I watching a play or am I watching a movie? Some months back, I ...

Swine flu: Is city facing shortage of vaccines?

City-based chemists and druggists associations are finding it difficult to meet its rising demand

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ASHA workers roped in to check swine flu cases in pregnant women

JAIPUR: More than 46,000 accredited social health activists (ASHAs) workers, who are instrumental in keeping a check on maternal health, have been roped in to prevent the s...