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Motorcycle Riders Breathe Easy with Air-Filtering Helmet
A new helmet protects motorcycle riders from outdoor pollutants, besides providing protection from head injuries. The air drawn through a filter in the new...
Civil society
Disappointment Over COVID-19 Vaccines Patents Deal
Global health campaigners have expressed their disappointment in the decision by the World Trade Organization to waive certain intellectual property rules on vaccine exports...
Civil society
New Medicines May Help End AIDS – But High Prices and Monopolies Could Keep the Poor Locked Out
On the current trajectory, most people who need them will not be able to get them any time soon, because high prices and monopolies...
Environment
Nepal Unveils Its First Electric Vehicle
The preliminary version of the eco-friendly two-wheeler was launched on Thursday. The scooter’s electric battery can sustain its run for 50 kilometres upon a...
Features
A Thing (or Two) of Beauty…… in Asia’s Forests
A new publication has distilled evidence of how forests from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam are the source of ingredients for the global...
India
WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India
The centre is being set up to develop norms, standards, and guidelines in relevant technical areas, tools and methodologies, for collecting data undertaking analytics,...
Animals and wildlife
Robot ‘safely’ extracts scorpion venom
An innovation patented Moroccan researchers takes the danger out of scorpion venom extraction as a robot uses a ‘harmless’ electric charge to extract scorpion...
COVID-19
COVID-19: The world can end vaccine inequity firstly by effectively sharing the doses, says WHO chief
The week gone past saw the highest number of COVID-19 cases reported from across the globe, the head of the World Health Organization told...
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Shrinking Himalayan Glaciers Spell Trouble Downstream
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Shrinking Himalayan Glaciers Spell Trouble Downstream
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