Mishaps At Indian Nuclear Plants
• 2001, Rajasthan: Turbine blade failures, cracks in end-shields, leaks in calandria, leak in many tubes in the moderator heat exchanger.

"Garibi Hatao" was Indira Gandhi's rallying cry in 1971. But as the Commonwealth Games grow menacingly closer, the government would rather cry out "Garib Hatao, Gandagi Chhipao". Lest shanties and dirt get in the way of a picturesque setting, the Delhi government is on an overdrive to hide the dirt and chase out the poor.

A new technique of blood testing that substantially reduces the time taken to detect the hepatitis-B, hepatitis-C and HIV viruses is gaining favour in the country

With his basic needs mounting, the sugar mills not yet operating and the window for sowing his wheat crop narrowing, Amarjit Singh of Kayastha Ganwadi village in Meerut district decided he couldn

Should a state where the healthcare budget is perpetually in strain spend Rs 33,000 on every girl for a vaccine that

Once upon a time

The National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), launched in 2006 as the UPA

The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh long before there was a country called India or a state called Orissa. The hills watched over the Kondh. The Kondh watched over the hills and worshipped them as living deities. Now these hills have been sold for the bauxite they contain. For the Kondh it

Ever since it came into existence 53 years ago by an Act of Parliament, Delhi

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