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In Delhi’s not-too-fashionable areas, Sayantan Bera photographs musclemen who set sprains and fractures right
by Syantan Bera
Sahyadris have been documenting the changing climate for 40 years
by Aparna Pallavi
Health insurance companies pursue customers till policies are sold. Then they disappear. The nature of business has already changed the treatment mechanism. A market awaits capture. Without stringent regulation, where is the industry headed?
by Vibha Varshney
Saif Siddiqui spent a little under Rs 14,000 on his appendicitis operation three years ago. The 35-year-old dentist from Bhubaneswar relied on an insurance cover for his family from Reliance General Insurance Company Ltd. He paid Rs 5,184 as premium for the policy.
Anti-GM groups say expert panel acted under pressure
by Savvy Soumya Misra
A coalition of organizations opposed to genetically modified food in India has written to the minister of state for environment and forests seeking withdrawal of clearance given to Bt brinjal. The Coalition for GM-free India alleged the expert committee that cleared the genetically modified brinjal for commercial cultivation in the country was neither impartial nor thorough.
River banks are efficient water filters. Haridwar shows how to make most of them
by Bharat Lal Seth
The holy town of Haridwar on the banks of the Ganga has of late been receiving pilgrims of a different kind. They are students and professors from India and abroad who come to study its water supply system. Over a third (38 per cent) of the water supplied in Haridwar is naturally treated as it passes through the river banks.
High amounts of pesticides and heavy metals in soil and water inside and around the Union Carbide plant
by Sapna Johnson, Ramakant Sahu, Nimisha Jadol and Clara Duca