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More than 50% healthcare workers feel workplace unsafe: Study

More than half of the healthcare workers who participated in a survey feel that their workplace is "unsafe", particularly in state and central government medical colleges. IMAGE: People form a......

SJM demands total ban on killer glyphosate weedicide

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliated Swadeshi Jagaran Manch on Saturday demanded a complete ban on the use of glyphosate, saying it is carcinogenic and damaging to consumer health, ecology......

Coronavirus: A peek into Mumbai's 'Containment Zones'

Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com reports how Mumbai's civic administration, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and the Mumbai police have divided the city into 'Containment Zones' to prevent the......

Want To Know About Tech Of The Future?

Amphibious drones for maritime inspection... devices that extract pure oxygen from water for patients in need... self-balancing electric bikes... IMAGE: People take selfies at the entrance of BTS......

Tomato Prices Increased By 1315%!

8 out of 10 households are planning to cut their tomato consumption if prices stay in the Rs 75-150 kg range over the next three months. IMAGE: A vendor arranges tomatoes on a cart at a roadside......

Farming: Maharashtra shows the way in pest control

NCIPM's awareness-cum-surveillance project helped reduce the pest-infected area in Maharashtra by 67 per cent, writes Surinder Sud. Maharashtra, especially the Vidarbha region, is infamous for......

Will govt's move to limit use of herbicide glyphosate hit India's food security?

Kerala, Punjab, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are among the major agriculturally important states that have banned the use of glyphosate citing its adverse impact on human health. In a sudden move,......

Why is India's cotton dream turning sour?

A few days back, Atul Ganatra, president of the Cotton Association of India, presented a grim scenario of the crop’s prospects in the 2024-25 season that starts in October. Photograph:......

Area under kharif crops at all-time high of 108 mn ha

Though agriculture ministry officials are confident of a bumper harvest due to record increase in kharif acreage, experts and farmers said the on-ground situation in some crops is not that......

What are locusts? And why are they such a big menace?

Swarms of immature pink locusts and adult yellow locusts are currrently active. Not only are fresh locusts swarms expected to arrive in the coming weeks, but even those already present in India......

Mirror Puts The Dance Back Into Lust Stories

Konkona Sen Sharma's short Mirror in Lust Stories 2 is a rare thing: A feminist film that is also very, very funny, states Sreehari Nair. IMAGE: Tillotama Shome,left, and Amruta Subhash with......

Review: Gurgaon is supremely entertaining

Director Shanker Raman, with an appetite for noir and a natural temperament for fast-cutting, takes you so swiftly and so deeply inside Gurgaon's anomie that you may mistake his vision of the city......

Termite helps Iraq get back the boxing bug

Texan pest controller Maurice "Termite" Watkins went to Iraq a year ago to kill bugs. Now, he is preparing Iraq's national boxing team for the Olympic Games.It did not take long before word got......

Two more players test positive at Aus Open

IMAGE: Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley said two players reported to have tested positive on Tuesday were also viral shedders. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters Two more Australian......