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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicContaminated water

Topic: contaminated water

Fever to death in 48 hrs: Govt gropes in dark as mystery disease grips Haryana village, water under lens

Villagers say 20 have died in 1 month in Chhainsa, govt doctors say death toll is 7. As cause of deaths yet to be identified, doctors testing villagers for Hepatitis B, C & HIV & also testing water.

Indore mayor, DM’s RSS office visit spurs Oppn strike over water deaths. ‘Working for Sangh or public?’

Congress hits out at Indore administration after Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargav & DM Shivam Verma were seen visiting the RSS office Wednesday night in videos that have gone viral.

‘She ate too much chicken’—in Odisha’s Jajpur, confusion and grief after cholera deaths

Mass feasts left thousands sick and 21 dead in Odisha. Cholera was found in 10 percent of stool samples, and several water samples tested positive for E. coli.

India’s freshwater needs to be saved from urban problems. Machine learning can help

With India expected to witness a two-fold surge in demand for water supply by 2030, stopping water leakage is critical.

A British scientist’s quest to scientifically explain the ‘mythical powers of the Ganges’

In 'Invisible Empire: The Natural History of Viruses’, Pranay Lal tells the story of viruses as major actors across human civilisation.

UNICEF study shows why India needs to get cracking on becoming open defecation-free

In villages of Bihar, Odisha & Bengal where open defecation still occurs, even household water is 2.77 times likelier to have faecal matter than ODF villages.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.