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The detailed story of how India won the battle against poliovirus

Thomas Abraham -
On World Polio Day, excerpts from book, ‘Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication’ by Thomas Abraham.

Government says Zika not yet an ‘outbreak’, deploys 258 teams to contain the spread 

Himani Chandna -
In India's third tryst with the disease, as many as 50 cases of Zika infection have been reported from Jaipur since September.

Drug sleuths off to Indonesia to trace source of ‘dead’ polio strain in vaccines

Himani Chandna -
Lakhs of children were said to have been administered oral polio vaccines from a batch tainted with the type 2 polio virus, which was eradicated years ago.  

Africa will ‘produce’ a mosquito that will actually fight malaria

Sandhya Ramesh -
WHO says 88% of world’s malaria cases occur in Africa, and that’s why countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali & Uganda are adopting ‘edgier’ methods to combat it.

No, coffee doesn’t need a cancer warning, US FDA says

John Tozzi -
Research by international bodies like WHO and others have confirmed its non-carcinogenic nature and reduced risks of heart diseases, type 2 diabetes.

Discarded antibiotics make a comeback as fight against superbugs gathers pace

Himani Chandna -
Move assumes significance as WHO has termed antibiotic resistance as one of the ‘biggest threats’ to global health.

Modi govt wants to beat WHO standards on doctors with ‘non-doctors’

Prateek Gupta -
India's doctor to population ratio will be 1:902, better than WHO's standard 1:1000, if the 7.63 lakh AUH doctors are included.

Increasing taxes on alcohol will add 500 healthy years to every 10 lakh people: WHO study

Manisha Mondal -
Study by WHO researchers found that taxation most cost-effective way of reducing alcohol effects; based on data from 16 countries, including India.

Indian cities are choking but there have been just 6 air pollution convictions in 2014-16

Sanya Dhingra -
Uttar Pradesh, the state with four of the world’s 10 most polluted cities, registered just two cases in 2016, NCRB data shows.

Is India’s abysmal doctor-patient ratio a self-made crisis?

ThePrint Team -
WHO prescribes a doctor-patient ratio of 1:1000. To meet the same, India would need at least 5 lakh more doctors. Experts weigh in on the abysmal doctor-patient ratio.
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This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

AG Sulzberger -
Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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